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...early light of July 23 the U.S. flag rose over Palermo and its 400,000 pliant civilians (see p. 28). "The greatest blitz in history," exuberant General George S. Patton Jr., Commander of the Seventh Army, called the march on the city...
Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., it appeared, owed Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham a bottle of Scotch-the General had bet the Admiral that it would take more than eight days to unload the task force on Sicily...
Obvious reasons for the improvement: 1) months of intensive invasion training, both in the U.S. and North Africa; 2) priceless experience for the staff officers in handling troops under battle conditions. But, these considerations aside, it remained clear that Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. had put together an exceedingly good team of unit commanders to lead his troops...
...list was Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley, who took command of the U.S. II Corps for the victorious push in Tunisia. General Bradley was leading a corps of the Seventh Army. Dispatches at the fall of Palermo (see p. 33) identified Major General Geoffrey Keyes as General Patton's deputy commander, and indicated that he might be leading another army corps. Keyes is an old associate of Patton's and an armored-force expert, whose last published command was the 9th Armored Division at Camp Campbell...
When Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s U.S. Seventh Army splashed up the beaches of Sicily, the innards of much of its motor equipment were protected from the sea with a thick, gummy substance that was the result of a near-miracle of production back home. Last week Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) proudly let the miracle...