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Your review in the Sept. 29 issue of Robert S. Allen's book Lucky Forward is the first authentic evaluation of General Patton from the combat soldier's standpoint I've ever read. You bet he wasn't known to the line soldier as "Georgie." It was just plain "Pat-ton." You bet it was "our blood and his guts" as far as combat troops were concerned! A general's position is too remote to make him a hero to his men. . . . We did respect Patton but only as hired help respect any reportedly competent...
...pleasure to learn that TIME'S book reviewer wasn't taken in by Robert S. Allen's phony-baloney story of how Patton and his Third Army...
...have read Lucky Forward and find that it is the most authentic work yet done on Patton, the Third Army or the ETO high command. However, since I was [with] General Patton from the time of the landings in North Africa until war's end in the Reich, perhaps I did not view his activities from the vantage point enjoyed by TIME'S book editor nested away in New York City...
After four years in Patton's third army as a major in the Field Artillery, Boston returned to Soldiers Field in time for Spring practice...
...higher headquarters. What the reasons were was not always clear and is not entirely clear yet, and Allen does nothing in Lucky Forward to clarify matters. Even rabid Third Army veterans will probably not be satisfied with Colonel Allen's charge of simple jealousy in higher places. The Patton legend does not need to be increased by decreasing the services, the skills and the patriotism of men who worked beside or above...