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Aboard a transport, one of a thousand ships bearing the U.S. Seventh Army to Sicily, a colonel climbed atop a gun mount and read out an Order of the Day from Lieut. General George Smith Patton...
...correspondent aboard the command ship saw a lone figure, leaning on the bridge rail. It was General Patton, gazing over the water toward the Sicilian shore, where history and the enemy awaited...
...Landing. Patton's ship stood off Gela, a soiled town on a blue bay, the main initial objective of the U.S. troops. Against Gela and its environs had been thrown a great weight of naval shells and aerial bombs. Against Gela, now, were sent crack troops of the Seventh Army: first a shock battalion of Commando-trained Rangers under Lieut. Colonel William O. Darby, who was to do brave things, and Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen's tried-&-proved 1st Division...
...Georgie Patton would hardly recognize his Desert Training Center today. Where the first 8,000 men of his Armored Force sweated 15 months ago, rehearsing for Tunisia, today nearly 200,000 troops of all kinds, save only WACs and paratroops, are being finally hardened for the fighting in Europe and Asia. The huge oval area in southern California and western Arizona has expanded until it is now larger than England. It is the biggest Army training area...
Somewhere in North Africa, tough, profane Lieut. General George S. ("Old Blood and Guts") Patton Jr. found time to answer a fan letter from ready-to-fight Bill (no kin) Patton, 10, of El Paso, Tex. Wrote the General: "Dear Bill ... I certainly hope that by the time you grow up we will be in a period of peace time, but you can be sure that during your lifetime there will be more wars...