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...Distant Truths. For all these men, as for George Patton, Tunisia was far from most things they had known. It was bleak, Arab, deadly. General Patton in his headquarters did not have as much time to savor remote memories as most privates did. The last letter he wrote his wife consisted of only two sentences: "We moved from no contact to 89 prisoners. It was a nice fight...
...remote things, which in their sum total are George Patton, may well have been in his mind as he paced headquarters and watched immediate success slipping northward on his map and away from...
Tunisia was far, too, from the training grounds: it would be nice if everything happened as punctually under the Tunisian Patton as it had under old Hurry-Up-and-Wait Patton at Fort Benning, or if Tunisia were as flat and dry just now as the western training reserve, the triangle from Desert Center, Calif., to Yuma, Ariz., to Searchlight...
This fighting in Tunisia did not sound like the March of the Armored Force, composed by Mrs. George Patton, in spite...
...winter campaign had done more to destroy Hitler's prestige than to destroy Hitler's force. of the three blasts of a tank siren in the opening measures. It did not smell like Virginia in the spring. It did not feel like that night in Washington when Patton said to some officers of the General Staff: "I want to fight the champ. If you lose, you've lost to the champ, and it's no disgrace. If you win, you're the new champ...