Indeed...what most people don’t know is that was the first example of mechanized warfare using automobiles as they did!
Yes. Patton was the real deal. He had flaws, but I have always thought his flaws made him far more interesting and effective!
LOL, currently listening to a 48 hour audiobook about Ulysees S. Grant...another very flawed man whose flaws make him more interesting to me.
Also the first American use of aircraft in combat (although they had been used in Europe for a couple of years by that point.)
“Indeed...what most people don’t know is that was the first example of mechanized warfare using automobiles as they did!”
And Patton would go on to be the first commander of the US army tank school and write the book on the use of armor in battle.
Strapping the dead to the hoods was a nice touch.
“Patton was the real deal.”
Yes he was.
I must have had this story wrong...I remembered this as having happened far earlier than it did...I thought it was around 1901 or something like that, but it took place in 1916, so I must have it wrong...
Gee... wait... you mean we actually [gasp, choke] KILLED people who invaded OUR Country once upon a time...?
No, say it ain’t so... we were such, such, ghastly BEASTS back then... Not “enlightened”, “tolerant”, and “sensitive” like we are now.
(yeah.. I know, /s)