The tali, straight, soldierly, me culous combat general was one of ‘ip last of the soldiers of an era now past— that of the romantic, chivalrous type of warfare," Wel lard recounted. Like the brave knight of old mounted on a charger who was atisfied to unseat his opponent without killing him. General Patton ' urned to the tank for his mount .nid dangled pearl-handled pistols at 'as side in place of the by-gone .sword. A Virginian by lineage, educated Virginia Military Institute and West Point, the general was an unmaculate, magnificant physical oecimen." He competed as an American Olympic athlete in 1912. characteristically in the grandiose event of individual prowess—the pentathlon. As a soldier he was brilliant, in tactics and in logistics, extremely corageous and directed his eam -signs with a "great style", spiced -• i'h profane urgings. Unlike the British Montgomery, who moved against the enemy only when his preponderance in men and materiel was in to l. Patton substituted swift- i ■ss, brilliance, drive and daring, for numerical superiority. Only a ! ":isoline-le-ss supply line could stop j lorn. Liberated Ras'ogne In breath-taking fashion he con founded and frightened the enemy, ften into surrender. Patton's fav orite fighting tool- his Second Armored Division—thus once sur fottnded the whole Seventh German Army with devastating results to the • winy Patton, too was the com mander who liberated the Ameri cans at Bastogne His swift penetrations, which with modern warefare repreiessions nca left a trapped German convoy shattered with 800 soldiers dead in their vehicles, left a "fantastic fig ure in enemy captured and materiel destroyed.” H courage, backed up as in

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