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...days the Blues slowly advanced, the Reds slowly retired. Then the Second got its orders. Its commander, squeak-voiced Major General George S. Patton Jr., who hides much military culture behind the Army's best smoke screen of profanity, was ready to deliver a telling blow...
Meanwhile Georgie Patton at the head of the fast-stepping wheeled column had driven close to 400 miles through Texas. He swung sharp east and flung himself on the defenses at the back door of Shreveport. His 41st Armored Infantry made a pass at the Reds' airdrome, reportedly were repulsed. They also established a temporary hold on Shreveport's vital waterworks...
...PATTON Knoxville, Tenn...
...days later, another exercise called the Second in again, to finish off the once-friendly Fifth, after the 27th and 30th had driven the Fifth across the Duck River. As in the first exercise, George Patton, wearing his newfangled globular tank helmet,* was in the thick of action, ran his show with snap and speed. (Said he: "You can't move a string of spaghetti by pushing it from the hind...
Died. Senator Byron Patton ("Pat") Harrison, 59, Congressman for 30 years; in Washington...