Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the environment that produced George Patton, a fine, slashing tactician but who thought the struggle between Nazis and anti-Nazis was just like a lot of Democrats and Republicans. Yet a clutch of wiser men rose from this ruck and were ready when World War II demanded them. These were men who, in the between-the-wars years, improved their hours at staff and command schools; while junior officers, they were spotted and ticketed for bigger jobs. The Army school system produced a gifted and acute coalition leader, Ike Eisenhower; it produced Bradley, MacArthur, and other strategists...
...Ball Express (Universal-International) is a tardy tribute to the U.S. Army transportation crews which sped gas, ammunition and food to Patton's Third Army when it outran its supply lines during the August 1944 Allied breakthrough in France. Red Ball Express (railroadese for top priority freight) captures some of the excitement of its subject through wartime combat film pieced out with action scenes shot at Fort Eustis...
...Chief of the U.S. Air Mission, tried to make the Russians understand the demands of strategic warfare so that they would grant the U.S. bomber bases; attended the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences. In 1944, with his second star, became commander of the Ninth Air Force, supported General George Patton in his sweep across France, and helped General Omar Bradley turn the Battle of the Bulge. Vandenberg got his third star in 1945; after the war he changed into civvies to run the Central Intelligence group. He returned to the Air Forces in 1947 as Deputy Commander and Chief...
...Hickey H. William L. Bliss, Sherborn; John R. Bray, Orchard Park. N. Y.; Dustin M. Burke, Athol; Richard J. Clasby, Natick; Thomas J. Coolidge, Brookline; Nathan E. Corning, Cleveland; Walter F. Greeley, Framingham; Nathaniel L. Harris, Jr., Dedham; Morgan P. Hatch, Wellesley; Edward A. Hubbard, South Natick; Anthony S. Patton, Arlington; Edwin B. Richardson, New York City; Carl W. Timpson, Jr., Hewlett, N. Y.; James O. Welch, Jr., Belmont; Reginald N. Wood, Marblehead; Theodore C. Nelson, Manager, Hartford, Conn...
Wilmot pays handsome tributes to Eisenhower's genius as an Allied coordinator, but in his opinion, Ike frittered away his strength, failed to control Bradley and Patton when they were wrong, and above all lost the chance...