Patton's 3rd Army, advance to Moselle Valley,at Verdun during, WW2, Sept 2 1944

[Clementine]

My father did a lot of work with Patton.

 

I had a conversation with him recently where he told me about a man he knew in his home town, the man was a WWI veteran, who would always argue with him that "no one ever went ahead of the infantry, that the infantry was always up front."

 

My father would tell him that may be true of his experiences, but that it was his (my father's) experience that the engineers were often up front before anyone else, and he said that anyone with a gun "was infantry" when circumstances dictated.

 

My father cleared roads for Patton, whichever way Patton wanted to go, my father said it was their job to see that he did.

 

(I just love the image of these two veterans of these two "Great" wars together talking.)