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To: colorado tanker
Sergeant Lafayette Pool, the biggest tanker ace of WWII

Was he under Patton's command?

24 posted on 01/06/2015 9:23:50 AM PST by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
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To: PapaNew
Pool was in the 3rd Armored Division, which I believe was under First Army command.

By this time, however, Pool had suffered his wound and was back in the States. He compiled those incredible numbers without participating in the Bulge or the invasion of Germany.

25 posted on 01/06/2015 11:28:55 AM PST by colorado tanker
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