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...such a role he would be subordinate to his junior, Omar Nelson Bradley, who is also tough but never brutal. General Bradley served under Georgie Patton in Sicily...
Diagnosis and Cure. General Bradley went to Africa a book soldier, who had spent 20 years studying and teaching without ever hearing a shot fired in anger. He got his first combat command a year ago, taking over the U.S. II Corps from fiery, explosive Lieut. General George Patton, who went up to an Army command. The situation was not happy. U.S. forces had been spread around in penny packets under the overall strategy of British Army commanders; the tactical results had been something less than good...
Like an angry sun from behind storm clouds, Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr. popped out of obscurity last week. Not much had been heard of him since he was relieved of his Seventh Army command in Sicily...
Apart from the soldier-slapping the fact remains that as commander of the II Corps in Tunisia (four divisions plus), General Patton distinguished himself in both attack and defense, took Gafsa and stopped the German Panzers at El Guettar, and that his record of success continued in Sicily...
Another fact is that for some soldiers Patton is a fierce inspiration. General Eisenhower, with too few battle-seasoned top commanders, obviously does not feel he can get along without the two-gun General, and does not intend...