DZ Season 064 Part 18. End the War in 44 – Only Human – Bradley 3 – I don't care if we get Brest tomorrow or ten days later.
It was Omar Bradley who, during the campaign by Patton’s Third Army in Brittany who said to Troy Middleton, the commander of the VIII Corp who was fretting over Patton’s orders to take Brest as quickly as possible:
Some people are more concerned with the headlines and the news they'll make than the soundness of their tactics. I don't care if we get Brest tomorrow or ten days later. If we cut the peninsula, we'll get it anyhow. But we can't risk a loose hinge.
This indicated a fundamental difference between the way of war conducted by Bradley and Patton, the commander of the Third Army who had…
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