[5th MEB]

That neighbor of yours kind of sounds like my father.
My father was with Third Army, 11th Armored at the Battle of The Bulge. The only thing he had to say about Patton was “He was an SOB, but he got things done”.
He did see the movie Patton with my mother, he said “there was a lot more snow than they showed in the movie”.
He hated snow until the day he died.
Only time he ever talked about the war was when I came home from Viet Nam, had to get him drunk as a skunk before he was willing to open up. Even then he just wanted to talk about the time him and his buddies drove their half-track into a barn with 2 walls and half the roof blown out, he said it was great not to have to sleep in the snow or the mud.

[oldvirginian]

My neighbor once said “he was an SOB, but he was OUR SOB”.

He also said Patton had the habit of showing up at the oddest times. Seemed he ran 3rd army from his jeep.
Anytime the General saw a small group of infantrymen he would talk to them about the chow, ammo situation and mail

I don’t recall him ever telling me his unit, all I know is he was a rifleman. I remember seeing scars on his shoulder, he was wounded twice, but never stayed in the hospital.
I seem to remember he didn’t think much of Bradley either.