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...excellent politician. H. believes he did a marvelous job in organizing the invasion, if he was actually the man who organized it. H. means Hemingway, which I am tired of writing, and he in the above sentence means Eisenhower. Let us revere Eisenhower, Bedell Smith, the memory of Georgie Patton. But Hemingway refuses to revere Montgomery as man or soldier, and would rather be stood up against a wall and shot than make that reverence. He is the gentleman who took our gasoline to do what he could...
Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
...that made the Americans glad to have them on their side. At ruined Pohang, on the east coast, they sent a force inland to attack the enemy in his rear, while other South Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called it a rout...
Unveiled on its site opposite the West Point library: a heroic bronze statue of the late great General George S. Patton Jr., complete with pearl-handled pistols...
...Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from Continental Motors and for transmissions from G.M.'s Allison, sought heavy armor from several steel castings firms...