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...experience, passed entirely as a corps commander under the late George Patton, hard-riding master of the armored attack. Walton Walker's career under Patton did not begin until 48 days after Dday. The Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps (and the rest of Patton's Third Army) was held in England until the beachhead was soundly secured.* Eisenhower had held the Third Army back for the U.S. forces' Sunday punch...
...Take It." In nine months of 1944-45, Walker's XX Corps traveled -some of the time at top speed-from Normandy to Austria. It was Courtney Hodges' First Army that smashed the hole in the German line, at Avranches, and it was the XX Corps and the rest of the Third Army that poured through the gap. The XX Corps' first major job was to clear the north bank of the Loire, but some of Walker's units helped to beat back the enemy counterattack at Mortain and pincer the German Seventh Army at Falaise...
General Walker has a reputation as a crack tactician and a canny trainer of green troops. In World War II he commanded the famed XX Corps, which spearheaded the late George Patton's Third Army across Western Europe. The Korean situation was as different from that as a model-T Ford is from a 30-ton truck. In Korea, Walker would need every scrap of his tactician's ingenuity; hardly ever before in history had a U.S. general taken on such a tough...
...Roman Catholic Church has deviated from both the spirit and teaching of Christ and the practice of the early church. Christ was most emphatic in stating that the only supremacy His followers could covet was to be based not on domination but on humble service (St. Matthew XX...
...Plymptom squad is knee-deep in danky outfielders. In center, husky, bronzed Juan P. Leapandfall will start if the hone spur on his ailing heel shapes up; Chuckles (XX) Bellylaugh is slated to tend the right garden; and devilish Cocksure will attempt to run the game while patrolling the left pasture...