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...expeditionary force promised NATO Commander Ike Eisenhower this year, the 4th (with some contingents still on the way) was wrapped into the U.S. Seventh Army of about 90,000 U.S. soldiers already in Germany, under Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy, one of George Patton's World War II corps commanders. Other units already on the ground as occupation troops: the famed ist Division and snappy well-trained units of the U.S. Constabulary, adding up to another division...
...World War II, lean, towheaded "Opie" Weyland was chief of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which gave brilliant support to General George Patton's brilliant Third Army. Patton called Weyland "the best damn general in the Air Corps . . . He's not always trying to convince me a thing is impossible just because it can't be done...
...Among them: the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, the General George S. Patton Jr. at West Point, the Thomas Jefferson in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., the allegorical figures flanking the steps of the Supreme Court and National Archives buildings and the Alexander Hamilton outside the Treasury Building in Washington...
...Helping Patton during the Sicilian campaign in 1943, Wedemeyer, then a brigadier general, asked to be reduced to the rank of colonel so that he could take command of a regiment...
...Patton refused...