“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” Gen. Geo. S. Patton
I remember reading somewhere that the "wastage rate", ie. the number of daily losses, experienced during WW2 was something like 2 percent per day. That meant that when the Army was not heavily engaged and the only activity going on was maintenance of the lines and patrolling -- you'd still lose 2 percent of your manpower each day. Sobering.
Gen. Patton might have been correct about only 2 percent of the men present dying in "a major battle", but that certainly wasn't the whole story.
For later.
Sure didn't teach him much at them expensive colleges, did they? Hirohito seldom appeared in public prior to the war's end. Furthermore, most Japanese had never even heard his voice before he was broadcast announcing the surrender. He was miles away from the surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri.
I believe my dad was in England on this day looking for his brother Pete. I have several British newspapers from the week before D-Day.
BO doesn’t understand that you can’t a war by being nice in war. Your nice after you’ve won the war.
We don’t want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men.
When I want to get their attention I give it to them loud and I give it to them dirty.
I have this Patton saying the top of my computer it reads, “it is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived. General George Patton.
The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.” General S. George Patton.
Actually it was George Scott playing Patton who said that. There is no evidence the real Patton said it.