My Dad, a decorated WWII Vet, now deceased 8/26/2018 at 95, was with Patton’s 3rd Army Corps.
He was a Platoon Sgt in the 101st Infantry, 26th “Yankee” Division Combat Engineers, fought thru countless hedgerows, cities, towns, and villages in Northern France, Central Europe, Rhineland, Ardennes and finally, Bastogne. He was shot by a German sniper, in The Battle of The Bulge, while pulling his wounded men from a bloody, snow-covered field after a machine gun ambush.
He received the Eastern European Ribbon w/ 4 Clusters for Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, Central Europe, along with the Purple Heart Medal for wounds he received in The Battle of The Bulge, the Bronze Star Medal for Valor, American Theater Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal, and the WW II Victory Service Medal.
He always said that Patton was “quite a piece of brilliant work”.
....your dad was qute the soldier...!! may he rest in peace...he, too, would probably take a very dim view of today’s armed forces, especially the U.S. Army....
BTW...it is technically and officially the “European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal”.....