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Originally Posted by m21sniper
Actually Patton was severely hamstrung in logistics or he would have been in Berlin months before the Soviets, most likely.
"I want you boys to hurry up and whip these Germans so we can get out to the Pacific to kick the shiit out of the purple-pissing Japanese, before the Goddamned Marines get all the credit!"
~Patton
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Couldn't agree more...my point was less Patton got a small piece of a very large supply pie, rather, Lee increasingly had no supplies...there is a great debate on what supplies Early and Heth were searching for in Gettysburg. Some historians shoes, others say
anything.