Word: pattons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those two masterly books brought Freeman invitations to lecture at the Army & Navy War Colleges and the Army's staff and command school. They also brought him the admiration of such men as Eisenhower, Marshall, Patton and Nimitz. Freeman still guides visiting generals over the Civil War battlefields near Richmond and no living person knows the terrain so well...
...Patton Mouth. Kay survived the torpedoing of the troopship Strathallen to arrive in North Africa a few weeks after the Allied landing. She saw the bitter days of Kasserine Pass. She gave Ike concern because of the "grins, whistles, wolf-calls" which followed her "in this exclusively male territory...
Apparently everybody wanted to meet the tall, lean, animated County Cork girl who was Ike's chauffeur. That summer General George Patton invited her and WAC Ruth Briggs (General "Beetle" Smith's secretary) over to Sicily to lunch...
...found General Patton enthroned in a palace once occupied by the King of Sicily. Ruth and I turned down the famous Patton 75, a suicidal highball of champagne, brandy and possibly other disastrous mixtures. Lunch consisted of G.I. food and shop talk ... I simply had to ask him about the slapping incident., General Patton sadly remarked, 'I always get in trouble with my gawddamned mouth.' At the same time, he shouted at the top of his squeaky voice, 'But if this sort of thing ever comes up, I'll do it again...
...other books, historical figures drift in & out of the story, blending indistinguishably with the figments of Author Sinclair's imagination. Among them: Hitler, Marshal Kesselring, Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Mrs. Roosevelt, General Patton, General Donovan. They seem much less real than the imaginary characters...