Word: patton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces had to abandon Gafsa, Fériana and Sbeïtla, swinging their whole line north and westward to escape annihilation. General George S. Patton's soa-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Johnny Waters, led one armored force to Djebel Lessoude, rescued isolated infantrymen from destruction. By midweek thousands of Allied vehicles were rolling west over sand hills and cactus patches-trucks, tanks, jeeps, two-wheeled carts, the jackass baggage trains of tired French Zouaves and Senegalese...
...year-old Major General George S. Patton-hard as carborundum and sometimes twice as rough-went his second D.S.M. last week, to be added to one of the finest collections of ribbons in the Army. He got it for distinguished service in the capture of Casablanca, where he was in command...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...
True to his (and the Army's) favorite doctrine, Patton's order laid out for every soldier the nature of his mission. It also warned that considerate treatment must be given the French-"It is regrettable that we must destroy all of these gallant foes who oppose us and who at heart are sympathetic to us, but such is the stern necessity of war." It concluded...
...Desert Training Command in California (where Major General George S. Patton trained his tankers before taking them to Africa), headed by Major General Fred L. Walker...