Word: patton
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From India came Jack Belden, now completely recovered from the hardships of the Burma campaign and his long trek across the mountains and jungles with General Stilwell. From America came Photographer Eliot Elisofon, now in Casablanca with Major General George S. Patton Jr.-and by Clipper and boat via Argentina came LIFE Editor Noel Busch on a special assignment to South Africa, to join Hart Preston, fresh out of Ankara, who was last heard from hedgehopping kraals, crocodiles and elephant herds in Zululand...
...time Patton's three tank columns had pierced through to Casablanca, all coastal French Morocco, from Agadir in the south to the Spanish Moroccan border on the north, was in American hands...
Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands, he could cripple Casablanca if necessary. Soon parachutists seized the city's main airdrome and the tank force advanced...
Commanding U.S. ground troops: on Africa's west coast, Major General George Smith Patton Jr., former commander of the First Armored Corps; at Oran, Major General Lloyd R. Fredendall; at Algiers, Major General Charles W. Ryder...
...command of the operations against the west African coast is roaring, gimlet-eyed Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine...