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Old 08-09-11, 09:30 PM   #3
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Is the Patton still Pending?

I always got a kick out of Stars and Stripes cartoonist Bill Mauldins' portrait of Patton when he served under him. Mauldin observed; "I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I respected his theories and techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes."

General George Patton once summoned Mauldin to his office and threatened to "throw his ass in jail" for "spreading dissent," this after one of Mauldin's cartoons made fun of Patton's demand that all soldiers must be clean-shaven at all times, even in combat. But Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander European Theater, told Patton to leave Mauldin alone, because he felt that Mauldin's cartoons gave the soldiers an outlet for their frustrations.
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