Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside Taegu, Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the ist Cavalry Division, had set up his headquarters, in a horse barn at the city's race track. A calm, kindly, humble soldier who was chief of staff to Tanker Patton in World War II, Gay paced up & down in shabby coveralls, looking less like a general than like a Kansas farmer worrying about crops. Pointing to his situation map with a slim, sheathed French bayonet disguised as a riding crop, General, Gay said: "I hope the enemy is as confused about the situation...
Military Fundamentalist. Toward the end of the war, Walker had become such an expert in the tactical management of armor that Patton considered creating an all-armored corps of three divisions and putting Walker in charge of it. "Johnnie" Walker's colleagues do not remember that he ever argued with anything Patton ever said, or, in fact, answered anything to a Patton order except "Yes, sir." A military fundamentalist, Walker believes wholeheartedly in the ancient military dictum that a man must learn to obey orders before he can give them. Of Patton's many commendations, Walker prized this...
...Like Patton, Walker believes that generals should visit the front constantly and take their chances in battle, not only to see (and correct) what is going on, but to encourage the troops. Like Patton, he believes in assiduous visits to the wounded (but not to "battle fatigue" cases). Patton always insisted that the officers around him wear neckties; now, in tieless Douglas MacArthur's area, Walker often goes without...
...Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
...Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton (see cut). The arsenal last week ordered its single eight-hour shift stepped up to two ten-hour shifts, boosted its orders for air-cooled engines from Continental Motors and for transmissions from G.M.'s Allison, sought heavy armor from several steel castings firms...