I've met more marines that were infatuated with Patton. You are aware he was Army, aren't you?
Regardless, have you read "Patton: A Genius for War" by Carlo D'Este?
I've met more marines that were infatuated with Patton. You are aware he was Army, aren't you?
Regardless, have you read "Patton: A Genius for War" by Carlo D'Este?
I have "Before the Colors Fade", by his nephew. In that book, he quotes some Marine officers, upon hearing of Patton's death to the effect that he was like a Marine.
I have not read the D'Este book.
I am now reading "Death Traps" by Belton Cooper. He was a maintenance officer with 3rd AD. He says he saw Patton on occasion. Patton had a magnetic personality with piercing eyes -- I hadn't ever heard the latter before. He says also that Patton was thought of as a demigod by many who served under him in Sicily. This just before the big breakout in August, 1944. OTher people detested Patton.
Cooper says one thing I was surprised to hear. He says that Patton held in January 1944 that the Army should stick with the Sherman and not bring the M-26 Pershing online. The Army went with that and the result was a lot of dead Shermans and dead tankers. I've always heard it was Army Ground Forces Command under General McNair that held up the U.S. heavy tanks. I know that when the Pershing did appear it had a lot of problems with the engines burning out cylenders.
Walt