Word: pattonisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into battle in Korea. They were commanded by Major General Hobart R. Gay, a veteran armored force officer who served as chief of staff to General George S. Pattern's Third Army in World War II. At the front, Gay carried a military swagger stick given him by Patton. Earlier, the U.S. 25th Division, commanded by Major General William B. Kean, had landed at the southeastern port of Pusan, the main U.S. supply port for the Korean...
Third Phase: when ready (probably months hence), break out of the Pusan perimeter, as Patton had broken out of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy. This main offensive north from Pusan could be supported by Allied amphibious attacks behind the North Korean lines on either coast...
General Walker has a reputation as a crack tactician and a canny trainer of green troops. In World War II he commanded the famed XX Corps, which spearheaded the late George Patton's Third Army across Western Europe. The Korean situation was as different from that as a model-T Ford is from a 30-ton truck. In Korea, Walker would need every scrap of his tactician's ingenuity; hardly ever before in history had a U.S. general taken on such a tough...
...ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
...16th Armored Division of General George Patton's Third Army freed the Czech city of Pilsen from the Germans. Two weeks ago the U.S. Embassy in Prague notified the Czechoslovak government of American intentions to hold a small ceremony in Pilsen in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the freeing of the city. From the Czech Foreign Ministry came a prompt and frigid reply: "In view of the fact that the Czechoslovak government is organizing the celebrations of the . . . liberation of the Republic ... it does not consider the celebrations by the American Embassy as desirable...