“Like Eisenhower, Patton ordinarily messed with a group of inmates from his headquarters. Breakfast was spirited and talkative. Patton picked up the GI holster in which I carried my 30-year-old Colt.45. "Hell, Brad," he said, "what you need is a social gun. You can't carry that cannon with you everywhere you go."”

—  Omar Bradley

Source: A Soldier's Story (1951), p. 5-6.

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United States Army field commander during World War II 1893–1981

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