Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across country in a pursuit of interception as achieved by Field Marshal Lord Allenby [in the 1917-18 Palestine campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...
...properly, for cause, than Bradley), and perhaps no one would have been surprised if Bradley had failed too. After 32 years in the Army, he was past 50 when he heard his first battlefield shot, a methodical professional with none of Eisenhower's catalytic ease and none of Patton's bravado imagination. But Bradley had his own virtues: sound tactical and logistical sense, a complete lack of side that won him the devotion of subordinates, and a willingness to take chances when the payoff promised rich...
...expeditionary force promised NATO Commander Ike Eisenhower this year, the 4th (with some contingents still on the way) was wrapped into the U.S. Seventh Army of about 90,000 U.S. soldiers already in Germany, under Lieut. General Manton S. Eddy, one of George Patton's World War II corps commanders. Other units already on the ground as occupation troops: the famed ist Division and snappy well-trained units of the U.S. Constabulary, adding up to another division...
...World War II, lean, towheaded "Opie" Weyland was chief of the XIX Tactical Air Command, which gave brilliant support to General George Patton's brilliant Third Army. Patton called Weyland "the best damn general in the Air Corps . . . He's not always trying to convince me a thing is impossible just because it can't be done...
...Among them: the statue of Theodore Roosevelt in front of the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, the General George S. Patton Jr. at West Point, the Thomas Jefferson in front of the State Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo., the allegorical figures flanking the steps of the Supreme Court and National Archives buildings and the Alexander Hamilton outside the Treasury Building in Washington...