"The German View of Patton" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Jan 2018 1:18 p.m. PST |
"Of the allied world War II generals, George Patton may be considered the most "German." He had carefully studied the early Blitzkrieg campaigns against Poland and France and shared the conviction of the Wehrmacht commanders that that a war of movement — short, sharp, and furious — was the way to avoid a repetition of the endless slaughter of World War I. "Always take the offensive. Never dig in," was Patton's motto. He expressed his aversion to fixed positions in graphic fashion: After having found some slit trenches around a command post in Tunisia meant to protect it from air attacks, he asked the commanding officer, Terry Allen, to show him his, whereupon he promptly urinated into it. "There. Now try to use it."…."
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| goragrad | 25 Jan 2018 10:50 p.m. PST |
Interesting. Hadn't seen the information on the 7th Army and D-Day decoy force before. The rest rather agrees with the history I've read. |
| Tango01 | 26 Jan 2018 11:32 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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| goragrad | 26 Jan 2018 5:12 p.m. PST |
By the way, did you look at the comments?? Pretty rabid bunch of Patton fanboys. |
| Tango01 | 27 Jan 2018 11:29 a.m. PST |
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