Word: pattonisms
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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...
...first time in my 43 years of military experience that I have had to do anything else but attack." It was a permissible exaggeration: the Korean situation was fantastically different from Walker's World War II battle experience, passed entirely as a corps commander under the late George Patton, hard-riding master of the armored attack. Walton Walker's career under Patton did not begin until 48 days after Dday. The Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps (and the rest of Patton's Third Army) was held...
...Patton once said admiringly to another officer, as Walker was passing by: "There goes a fighting son-of-a-bitch." Patton himself had been described as a "purebred gamecock with brains," and he felt that Walker had satisfactorily absorbed his own battle philosophy. This was expounded in such Pattonisms, usually decked with profanity, as: "Never take counsel of your fears." "Don't worry about your flanks, let the enemy worry about them." "The way to get out of enemy fire is to advance...
...savagely contested; Walker directed one himself, under fire on the riverbank. Within days, the XX Corps lanced through the battleground that had been dismally fought over for years in World War I-Reims, Epernay, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Walker pushed on across the Meuse, but with the enemy in rout, Patton ordered him to "sit down" 40 miles short of Metz. The Third Army, which needed 450,000 gallons of automotive fuel a day, was almost...
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...