Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...railroad and highway north of Kumchon to cut the main Communist supply line. The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade leapfrogged U.S. troops, sliced toward Kumchon in a wide northeast arc. The main body of the 1st Cavalry Division continued to slog up the Kumchon highway behind Patton tanks...
Alexander Gottschalk of Straus; Ehoneser Gay. Jack J, Neuser, Larson M. Powell of Thayer; William J. Cates, Warren H. Markarian of Weld; John II. Freeman Claude E. Hootott, Jr., Clifford J. Meyer, Anthony S. Patton of Wigglesworth...
...excellent politician. H. believes he did a marvelous job in organizing the invasion, if he was actually the man who organized it. H. means Hemingway, which I am tired of writing, and he in the above sentence means Eisenhower. Let us revere Eisenhower, Bedell Smith, the memory of Georgie Patton. But Hemingway refuses to revere Montgomery as man or soldier, and would rather be stood up against a wall and shot than make that reverence. He is the gentleman who took our gasoline to do what he could...
...that made the Americans glad to have them on their side. At ruined Pohang, on the east coast, they sent a force inland to attack the enemy in his rear, while other South Koreans and a small armored U.S. force held him by the nose (as the late George Patton used to say) with a frontal attack. The U.S. Air Force moved its planes back to Pohang airfield. The Communists were pushed back toward Yongdok. Jubilant South Korean commanders called it a rout...
Unveiled on its site opposite the West Point library: a heroic bronze statue of the late great General George S. Patton Jr., complete with pearl-handled pistols...