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To: 2CAVTrooper
Where Patton allegedly drove a tank through the bars and “cat houses” because the vice lords of Phenix City were preying on Patton’s troops.

There was a bar in Germany that received similar treatment from the Airborne sometime after WWII.

It used to be a common tale 40+ years ago.

120 posted on 08/28/2012 9:39:33 PM PDT by ansel12 (Massachusetts Governors, where the GOP goes for it's "conservative" Presidential candidates.)
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To: ansel12
In the early 1970's a soldier at Fort Knox was upset with the MP's for tossing in jail for public intoxication, so he stole an M-48 out of the tank park where he worked and drove it through a shopette and into the side of the MP station. Fortunately, the MP's knew he was coming, so they were able to evacuate the building in time.

The shopette was so badly damaged that it had to be torn down, but the station survived the collision and you can still see where the impact point is due to the different colored bricks which were used to repair the hole.

127 posted on 08/28/2012 10:02:05 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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