Moonbattery (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oozing the idiotic moral equivalence that contributes to the blind obnoxiousness of the progressive left, Anthony Stevens-Arroyo of the Washington Post’s On Faith blog compares Ft. Hood Islamist Mass Murderer Nidal Hassan to General George Patton and World War I...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This Veterans Day is a fine time to visit Soapbox Alert and help urge formal recognition of some WWII soldiers who liberated a prison camp. The Alert on congress.org was posted by one of my blog readers whose father and many others were in the Boston regiment of Gen. George Patton's army that, until their families began this effort, never sought the formal "liberator" status that places...
<B>Patrick Joubert Conlon</B> (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
From a letter by Eisenhower : The concentration camp in Ohrdruf was the first to be liberated by U.S. forces during World War II, and just a week later, General Dwight D. Eisenhower paid a visit in order to survey the scene. The following letter, in which Eisenhower describes said experience, was written by the future President three days later and sent to General George C. Marshall in Washington....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Jan Leighton, an actor who conjured a career by dressing up as historical figures, appearing in so many commercials, print advertisements and industrial films as George Washington, and that he was both ubiquitous and anonymous, died on Nov. 16 in Manhattan. He was 87. James ShannonJan Leighton made a career out of impersonations, which kept him in demand onstage and off. The cause was complications...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... France to Strasbourg. No other Allied army had yet reached the Rhine, not even hard-charging George Patton’s. Read more .... My Comment: A must read article for World War II buffs.
GINA COBB (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
"I can't wait to see what type of plan this reincarnation of King Solomon and George Patton comes up with." Drew M. at Ace of Spades: Obama's Afghanistan Decision Tonight? Continued at website.
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... France to Strasbourg. No other Allied army had yet reached the Rhine, not even hard-charging George Patton’s. Devers dispatched scouts over the river. “There’s nobody in those pillboxes over there,” a soldier reported. Defenses on the German side of the upper Rhine were unmanned and the enemy was unprepared for a cross-river attack, which could unhinge the...
Later On (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... France to Strasbourg. No other Allied army had yet reached the Rhine, not even hard-charging George Patton’s. Devers dispatched scouts over the river. “There’s nobody in those pillboxes over there,” a soldier reported. Defenses on the German side of the upper Rhine were unmanned and the enemy was unprepared for a cross-river attack, which could unhinge the Germans’ southern front...
Murdoc Online (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
... France to Strasbourg. No other Allied army had yet reached the Rhine, not even hard-charging George Patton’s. Could a November, 1944, crossing of the Rhine from the southern invasion force have “pre-empted” the German Ardennes offensive, also known as the Battle of the Bulge? A book by David P. Colley, Decision at Strasbourg: Ike’s Strategic Mistake to Halt the Sixth Army Group at...
Past Imperfect (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... William Butler Yeats. "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom." General George Patton "Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising." Mark Twain "If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning." Aristotle Onassis
California Literary Review (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... to drive them away. MacArthur brought in an infantry unit. Other sources indicate that it was George Patton, then a major, who arrived with a tank platoon and cavalry out of Fort Myers, VA.
Sabbah's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Now I want you to remember, that no bastard EVER won by dying for his country. He won it by making the OTHER poor dumb bastard die for his country." - George Patton By: Hesham Tillawi* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz It was my first year on television, when one self proclaimed Palestinian-American "leader" requested that I [...] Nice Soldiers Die First is a post from:...
Exposing Liberal Lies (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... Blitzkrieg, a surprise attack with maximum force at the weakest point on the enemy's front. George Patton used that kind of audacity with the Third Army in Europe, but Eisenhower made sure that Patton was kept in check. Eisenhower only let him off the leash after Normandy, and even then Omar Bradley was put in place to ride herd on Patton. Ike knew exactly what he was...
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... No Aotearoa" (2004) Today's Birthdays Paracelsus (1493-1541): physician and alchemist George Patton (1885-1945): US Army general Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007): sci-fi author, Slaughterhouse-Five ; authors who share this birth date include Feodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), Howard Fast (1914-2003) and Carlos Fuentes (81) Jonathan Winters (84): madcap comedian Fuzzy Zoeller (58):...
TraderFeed (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... the path toward expertise and elite performance. In Enhancing Trader Performance , I quote General George Patton: "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." Training, I note, provides that extra minute. Day after day of previewing and reviewing creates the inner strength and confidence to move forward even under the most daunting conditions. More: Resilience and the Courage...
