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Great, great General; maybe, maybe not, such a great person.
Who knows what would have happend had Patton not been hamstrung by Ike trying to placate Montgomery, which turned out to be a double mistake (Market Garden disaster). Might not even have been a Battle of the Bulge or holed up freezing in the Ardennes forest in the worst winter in decades.
Erwin Rommel, the incredible German battlefield tactician (The Desert Fox), had huge respect for Patton.
("Go, George, go" when he took Le Mans).
Last edited by tcar; 06-15-2009 at 03:50 PM..
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