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The press, then and now are mostly ignorant if guns. At the time, some reporter said he carried "pearl handled" pistols. Patton, said something like only a pimp or a river boat gambler carries pearl handle pistols, and hated the reference to them as pearl handled.














In 1953, a KLM Royal Dutch DC4 went down in a Saudi Arabia desert (note the bent propeller blades). A Kenworth 853 transported the plane through 4 miles of sand to the nearest road. The Kenworth 853 had side-by-side radiators, 6-wheel drive, a 300 gallon fuel capacity and a Hall Scott gasoline engine.