
I saw general Patton several times in passing in World War 2because I was in a special service (a recon service) under which he was thegeneral. One time I remember seeing himwas a nice spring day in Nurnberg Germany. We were waiting for orders to go forward andour batalion was there for cleanup. Itwas a week or two before the war ended.
It was at this time that I had a jeep, and having a jeep waslike being a taxi driver; you had to take everyone everywhere.
I came along this part of the road where it had been bombedout and there was only about 1 lane open for about 1/2 mile. I took my sweet old time. It was that nice spring day and I thought Iwould take it a little slower than we usually were paced.
It was then I heard an air horn (bleep bleep). They used to use air horns with the coloredtroops got assigned driving trucks and I thought it was one of them. But pretty soon I got to a wide part of theroad and what went by me was a command car with huge flags with some guy alldressed up like a general (general Patton).He said something but I couldn't understand it. He basically was telling me to get the fuckoff the road.
I also saw him several times in corpshead HQ. Another time I saw him in a PX (a PX or Post Exchangeis a place you can buy coffee and other things kind of like a Walmart for troops). All of the sudden someone yelled "Attention!!"It was general Patton again. That was inthe spring of 1945.