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https://victorhanson.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Hanson-Logo-1.png595200Nearly 70 years ago, the lieutenant general began his advance toward the German border. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Nearly 70 years ago, on Aug. 1, 1944, Lieutenant General George S. Patton took command of the American Third Army in France. For the next 30 days they rolled straight toward the German […]