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Gen. George S. Patton and the slaps heard ’round the world

Posted on November 23, 2020 by Marc Lancaster One comment

In two incidents a week apart in August 1943, Gen. George S. Patton slapped soldiers in field hospitals in Sicily. Though war correspondents knew about at least one incident almost immediately, they chose not to report it and the news didn’t become public until three months later.

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Missing D-Day: ‘Performers without an audience’

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Marc Lancaster One comment

Around 3 a.m. on June 6, 1944, restless and unable to sleep, Lt. Vernon A. Walters turned on the radio in his room at the Excelsior Hotel in Rome. He heard German radio announce that the Allied invasion had begun, in Normandy, and pondered whether to tell his boss right away. Walters opted to sit on the news for a