“No officer I ever met, either above or below me in rank, could touch General Creighton W. Abrams. He was the best soldier I have ever known, including all the members of my family.”

— George S. Patton IV

Source: The Fighting Pattons (1997) by Brian M. Sobel, p. 176

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