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1. www.qmfound.com
www.qmfound.com/littlej.htm - [Cached]Published on: 10/1/1993 Last Visited: 3/12/2007
In the case of World War II commanders, vast stores of collected records, published memoirs, and weighty biographies have long since ensured the places in history of Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur, Bradley, Patton, and others.
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It was early May 1942 and Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower, a fellow West Pointer, had just come to Washington as a newly promoted brigadier general, fresh from the Carolina maneuvers.
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Ike called him "one of the topflight Quartermasters of the world," and described Quartermaster support in the ETO as "the greatest supply job in history." Ike thanked him for his invaluable service in an autographed copy of Crusade For Europe.
As for Patton, his and Littlejohn's respect for each other was complete.
