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Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. saw fit to write General George C. Marshall to deny the widely printed story that he had landed in Normandy waving a $1,000 bill and betting that he would beat Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley and Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to Paris.* Said Patton: "I arrived in Normandy incognito. I have never seen a $1,000 bill...
Memories. In 78 hours last week units of General Patton's Third Army swept over the Marne near Paris, zipped through to Verdun and a minor battle. Within another 48 hours they were in Alsace, at Metz; then they were reported stabbing into the Reich's rich industrial Saar Basin...
...Both Patton and Hodges were 24 to 48 hours ahead of SHAEF communiques. General Eisenhower again had put a security blanket over their most advanced plunges. Front reports had Patton patrols near Strasbourg, near Saarbrücken ; placed Hodges' spearheads close to the Belgian-German border...
...Bernard Law Montgomery. The boss of the American Twelfth Army Group: lean, spectacled Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who thus became responsible directly to Eisenhower for the operations of the First Army of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges, the fleet-footed Third Army of Lieut. General George S. Patton...
...Among the Confederate dead in Sheridan's victory at Winchester, Va., (in 1864) was Colonel George S. Patton, V.M.I, man and grandfather of the U.S. Army's No. 1 expert in tank warfare...