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...shocked by the first scandal in the U.S. Army High Command in World War II. It centered on a hero of Casablanca, El Guettar and Sicily: gaudy, profane Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr., Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army...
During the action in Sicily, General Patton visited an evacuation hospital. He was conducted to the receiving tent, where 15 casualties had just come in from the front...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s novel-writing wife Beatrice (Blood of The Shark) disclosed that she had been getting poems from her hell-roaring husband, read a couple at Boston's annual Authors Club dinner. In the Woman's Home Companion appeared a Patton so-called poem, God of Battles. Opening quatrain...
...Fifth's schools sought to give each soldier versatility. Mark Clark did not believe in overdone ultraspecialization. The quality of his teachings attracted visitors. Many a soldier of Lieut. General George Patton's Seventh Army got his final polish in General Clark's classes. And when the Fifth embarked for the Salerno beaches, it had been graduated cum laude from the toughest of training camps...
...stomp or rage-or even smoke to ease his nerves. The tauter Mark Clark feels, the quieter he usually becomes. But what he says then in his resonant voice may have a steely edge, and his long legs may take longer, caged-lion strides. He does not have General Patton's histrionic flair, or General Eisenhower's command of expletives. Yet he can let off steam with a sharp "Ibbsob!" which merely means yellow-bellied s.o.b...