Pearl Harbor in Retrospect
“We had a yardstick. We had no reason to doubt our yardstick’s approximate accuracy. Yet it was wholly false.”
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Associated Press Patton Preferred
In General Patton’s account of his own campaigns, what is most significant to the professional soldier? MAJOR GENERAL SHERMAN MILES finds as high points: Patton’s opposition to Montgomery and his warm regard for Bradley; his candor and acknowledgment of his own errors: his crossing of the Rhine; and his mastery of his chosen speciality — the bold. unexpected offense. General Miles seved in the caealry, the artillery, several times on the General Staff, and as military attaché in Europe.