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Lieut. Colonel Wilson Hawkins of Pascagoula, Miss., commanded the battalion from a grasshopper observation plane skimming overhead. The Pattons, each with a snarling tiger painted on the front, rumbled north out of a dry riverbed. Just short of Uijongbu, the column ran into trouble. Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field. Two more got stuck trying to pull it out. A fourth hit a mine; there was a deafening blast, a big puff of smoke and a cry over the radio: "Man wounded...
French opposition. Urged to flee, the Sultan of Morocco said then: "The Americans are my friends. I will greet them here." General George S. Patton gave the Sultan a jeep with chrome fenders which is still the pride of his 58-car garage. Two months later, the Sultan met Franklin D. Roosevelt, was deeply impressed. By January 1944, an independence party, underground since the 1930s, emerged as theIstiqlal (Arabic for independence), broke out with a manifesto which quoted the Atlantic Charter. Independence seemed a splendid idea, even to old Hadj El Glaoui, Pasha of Marrakech, leader of some...
...school's students range from the sons of neighboring farmers to the son of the late General George S. Patton and the grandson of Elihu Root. Some parents pay as much as $6,000 a year; many pay almost nothing. Though 51% of boys get student aid, only a few staff men know who they are. All boys clean their rooms, wait on table, and tend the grounds...
GOOD Friday morning was cold, brisk and sunny. Lieut. Colonel John S. Growdon of San Antonio moved his task force of Patton tanks through the South Korean 1st Division lines a few miles north of Seoul and headed for the D.Z. (drop zone) at Munsan...
There was little opposition at first. Master Sergeant Arthur Tucker's Patton hit a mine about eight miles north of Seoul while reconnoitering a bypass around a blown bridge. Its left tread peeled off like a snake's discarded skin; the men inside crawled out to shiver in the sunlight. Then an armored scout car, with a British bridge-building detachment, hit another mine, bounced up & turned over. Two groggy but otherwise uninjured Britons climbed out. A South Korean jeep coming over to inspect the double mishap struck a third mine, was blown into a tangle of steel...