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Executor of this break-through and temporary commander of the U.S. II Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...facts, said Mr. Stimson, were that U.S. troops had made an "important contribution" to a British victory. General Patton, said the Secretary, had been ordered not to try to cut between Rommel and Von Arnim...
...what interested me most was a windfall of evidence showing that our editors had realized for a long time back that General Patton was a man to watch and had been watching him. For example, there was a 5,000-word report from Bill Howland, our Atlanta correspondent, telling all about General Patton's colorful days at Fort Benning. (This was dated October 28, 1941 and filed away for future use. Another long report was filed nearly a year ago by correspondent Wilmott Ragsdale, on how General Patton was whipping our new desert warfare battalions into shape...
Finally, I found that our Army & Navy editor, Roy Alexander, and writer, Robert Sherrod, have both been on maneuvers with General Patton-first in Tennessee in 1940, later in Louisiana and again in North Carolina. They had grown to know him quite well and had all sorts of anecdotes to contribute...
...been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...