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...would be dead before night." But as soon as he heard of the attack he headed back toward the battles. He was with General Vandenberg all through the terrible days when the pea-soup fog kept our tactical air force grounded, finally got back to the front with General Patton's men east of Bastogne...
...three weeks after Election Day, Sergeant William C. O'Neill, of Marietta, Ohio, was somewhere in France with Lieut. General Patton's Third Army. He picked up a copy of Stars & Stripes, read that he had been reelected to the Ohio Legislature. Forthwith, O'Neill was sworn in by his commanding officer, though he had to wait until Jan. 26 for orders to come home. By that time he was in Belgium. He raced to Paris in a jeep to catch a plane bound back to the east coast...
Bill Simpson is 6 ft.11 in. tall, lean and hard; he wears splendidly tailored battle jackets and trousers which fit him perfectly. But he is not pompous or dramatic, and is considered to be something like Omar Bradley in fatherly devotion to his troops. Despite his arguments with Patton, he is a great believer in all kinds of machines- especially artillery- which save U.S. lives...
Born 56 years ago in Weatherford, Tex., son of a Confederate veteran, Simpson entered West Point in 1905. graduated 101st in a class of 103. A classmate (not Patton) says this rank was not by any means due to lack of intelligence, but to insufficient schooling before entrance...
Possible Pause? He might well pause to regroup before assaulting this formidable river barrier (the bridge across the Oder at Frankfurt is 900 feet long), after his steel-tipped surge of 225 miles in 23 days. Lieut. General Patton had raced across France, some 300 miles in six weeks, before he ran out of gasoline...