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His grandfather, Colonel George Smith Patton, was killed at Winchester in 1864. Patton grew up on those stories, memorised classical texts by oral repetition...
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His grandfather, Colonel George Smith Patton, was killed at Winchester in 1864. Patton grew up on those stories, memorised classical texts by oral repetition...
Before El Guettar he read Rommel's own book, Infantry Attacks. As a young cavalry officer he studied Roman sword technique, concluded the point killed...
Eisenhower did not leave it abstract. One modern heavy bomber, he said, is a brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two...
"I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history," Patton wrote near the end of his life — and then the...
"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of...
"The Sergeant is the Army." Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited with that, and he is an unlikely man to have said it. He wanted...
An Iowa-class battleship's 16-inch guns threw a 2,700-pound shell about 24 miles. In the 1980s the US Navy pulled out four 5-inch mounts and...
"You're never beaten until you admit it." George S. Patton said it, and Sicily is where it was tested — two slapped soldiers in...
"You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided." General George S. Patton said that, and he meant it...
"Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best." Chester Nimitz said that, and he was given the chance to prove...