2/20/2024 Commanding lincoln's navy : union naval leadership during the civil war / stephen r. taaffe.Read Now![]() ![]() Patton served in World War I, attaining the rank of colonel, but this was his first foray in World War II, now in its third year. Patton took off his helmet for a moment, so they see him smiling. ![]() Several staff members joined him, and sailors aboard the Augusta cheered as his small craft pulled away. “Such are the fortunes of war,” he quipped, and he had to wait hours until he could finally board another landing craft. The muzzle blast destroyed the landing craft, which had to be jettisoned, taking all Patton’s other belongings to the bottom of the sea. Patton’s ship, the cruiser USS Augusta, increased speed and opened fire with its main guns. Just as he prepared to board his landing craft, three French warships appeared. His orderly, Staff Sergeant George Meeks, soon located the pistol belt on Patton’s landing craft and brought it to him. He called it his “killing gun,” and wore both weapons holstered on his belt alongside a compass stored in a handcuff case and another case for carrying spare ammunition. The Peacemaker was slow to reload, however, so eventually Patton decided on his second pistol, a Smith & Wesson. The Colt had two notches in its ivory handle, denoting two bandits he helped kill during a shootout at the Rubio Ranch. 45-caliber Colt Peacemaker, in 1916, just before he left on the Pancho Villa Expedition. The General could not find his favorite pistols. Scheduled to go ashore at 8:00 am, at Fedala near Casablanca, after the initial assault waves, he suddenly had a problem. Patton, Jr., entered his first World War II battlefield on the morning of November 8, 1942. ![]()
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