and

General George S. Patton, Jr
MY BLOOD AND HIS GUTS WON THE WAR

same guy
VMI
class of 1907

old soldiers never die they just fade away

General George S. Patton, Jr
Rest in Peace
Luxembourg Cemetery

I liked him best when he said . . .

You can thank God that twenty years from now, when you're sitting around the fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he asks you what you did in the war, you won't have to shift him to the other knee, cough, and say "I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

Do you remember the German song about this place?
"Ich hänge meine Wäsche an der Siegfried Linie"
(Bitburg, Germany)




we knew how to get with it
no time to screw around
in the small towns
(not enough girls)

we crossed the Rhine
when Patton needed to urinate

webmaster's tank crew
during German occupation
Ortenburg in Kreis Vilshofen

         

webmaster's M4 bridge tester destroyed this one without firing a shot