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...this kind of terrain it is almost impossible to achieve a pursuit of destruction without cavalry which can advance swiftly across country in a pursuit of interception as achieved by Field Marshal Lord Allenby [in the 1917-18 Palestine campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...
Growled Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott: "Here's one for you, Adolf." Then he pressed a button. A mile away, 59 concrete buildings of the I. G. Farben's Kauf-beuren gunpowder works were blown to smithereens by G.I. dynamite charges...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. said: "All good things must come to an end. . . ." Erect and sad, he handed his beloved Third Army flag to his successor in command, Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., a General who had fought with his mouth closed. The band played Auld Lang Syne. Some 400 soldiers and WACs, also erect and sad, watched him march stiffly away...
...Harold Truscott Davis, Jr. '45, of Adams 6-31 and Hingham, Mass., was found dead in his bed yesterday morning by a maid coming to clean his room...
Soon to arrive for duty still unspecified was able, leather-lunged Lieut. General Lucian K. Truscott Jr., late of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy...