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Skier's Swoops. But after the armor had broken through this last crust, it had taken off in wide swoops over all the great road network. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s famed 4th Armored Division's Combat Commands A and B, led by the fabulously tough team of Lieut. Colonel Creighton Abrams Jr. and Major Harold Cohen, are expert in this type of war. In operations such as this penetration toward the German heart, the armor moves like a cross-country skier, sliding swiftly down roads, diagnosing the terrain on the fly. If an obstacle...
Last week SHAEF correspondents were telling another anecdote about unpredictable Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. An Allied officer had asked Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower where in Germany Patton might be. "Ike's" reply: "Hell. I don't know. I haven't heard from him for three hours...
...George Patton was sitting in his headquarters van, his high-polished cavalry boots cocked on the glass top of his desk, his long-fingered hands relaxed in his lap. He listened now & then over his command radio to battle reports. They were good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...
Where General Patton might be in the next three hours he himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...
...armor-heavy Third Army was performing brilliantly all the tricks he had worked hard to teach it. Some of Patton's men were fighting in Kassel, the important road-junction point of central Germany. They were less than 180 miles from Berlin. Patton had already come that many miles, in less than seven weeks-through thick fighting and across the Rhine. His 4th Armored Division was busily engaged in its specialty: spearheading a typical Patton flanking movement. One of its miles-long columns was only 152 miles from Berlin...