Word: restorationism
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For this restoration, Patton could thank his superiors, General Eisenhower and General Marshall. After Patton's hysterical slapping of two enlisted men in the Sicilian campaign, Eisenhower ordered him to make a public apology, but he did not fire him. After Patton blurted out his opinions on foreign affairs...
Some interesting points about Eisenhower's restoration of Patton: in Sicily Patton was in command over Bradley; in Normandy the position is reversed. A dispatch from Normandy last week reported that the breakthrough there-which now reglorifies Patton-was "conceived, planned and executed" by General Bradley.
"This port is going to be ours, so we don't want to mess it up more than we have to," Deyo told his gunnery officers. But Deyo's guns and Hennecke's demolitionists messed it up considerably before Commodore William A. Sullivan, the U.S. Navy'...
Much as they want restoration of their looted land, Dutchmen want revenge even more. In this, the exiled Government met the underground voice more than halfway. Until the Germans came, no person in The Netherlands had been executed for any crime since 1870, when capital punishment was outlawed. But the...
France's Man? Other towns and villages saw him. Then, after six hours in the homeland, Charles de Gaulle went back to Britain. He left behind, in one corner of France, a new Government. With no apparent objections from the Allied High Command, which had its own administrative setup...