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When the General's views got around, a hell-to-breakfast howl went up. Stars and Stripes alumni recalled a year-old legend: General Lee, like the late General Patton, had tried and failed to get Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's Willie & Joe (who grew up in Stars and Stripes) suppressed-or shaved. One old grad, Colonel Egbert White, fired a hot protest to Chief of Staff Eisenhower, called Lee's order " a drastic departure from the policies you established and supported." (In Paris, an officer once ordered Stars and Stripes to do something for the boys: print...
General George S. Patton Jr.'s widow approved a proposal which the Massachusetts Legislature may soon tackle: a statue of the general on the Statehouse grounds...
Twice George ("Old Blood & Guts") Patton had been stripped of his command. The first time was after a public furor in the U.S. over his slapping and abusing a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital. (Technically, he remained head of the Seventh Army, but it was a phantom Army with no divisions.) For the old war horse, that was a bitter period. One day he visited Fifth Army headquarters before Cassino, borrowed Mark Clark's Packard, and in this conspicuous vehicle rode recklessly up to the front lines. When he could ride no farther...
...that history, whoever writes it, the roaring campaigns of George Smith Patton and his tanks across France and Germany must make an honorable chapter. Along that route, among Third Army dead at Hamm in Luxembourg, George Patton was laid to rest...
...Allen became General George Patton's G2, lost his right arm last April when he drove into an ambush in Germany. Three days later, when Patton's Army caught up with him, he had taken over the hospital at Gotha, was bossing its German doctors and nurses...