Exploding in what?Can the peninsula hold that much ego without exploding?
Ego, much like U-235, may have a critical mass. Get those two close enough, and you might reach that critical mass and find out...Exploding in what?
Nuclear fire?
This is gonna be a good one!
Hope you like it!This TL is definitely going to be a good one!
I mean, Patton had four tanks named after him, so names can be re-used. I'll keep thinking about thisThere already was the M8 Scott in WW2, so that name is taken.
Well, not that pheasant hunt. He's been out of Germany for a good six months by that point. I'm sure he managed a hunt somewhere in California to make up for itLooks like Patton got to go on that pheasant hunt after all on Dec. 8th 1945.
Jean's fate is just as awful as in OTL.But here's the big question.
How did he deal with the whole mess involving his niece Jean Gordon?
He and his wife seem to have a good relationship, so I suppose he found a way to solve it?
Such wonderful names as Rose, Pansy, Tulip, Veronica, Sunflower, and, I kid you not, Snowflake.
Hadn't actually heard about that before. Considering how sloppy security was in Korea, makes me wonder if anyone would notice if a few more spies got caught....It would be interesting in this TL to see if somebody ”smelled a big commie rat” (to quote General Buck Turgidson😜), and that spy ring is exposed earlier than IOTL.
Good thing MacArthur only leaves Japan a couple of times a month then.I like this. Patton and MacArthur--can the peninsula hold that much ego without exploding?
I like this. Patton and MacArthur--can the peninsula hold that much ego without exploding?
Indeed, but at difference to McArthur, his lack of any political ambitions (aside of how much misplaced, they were) and the main is, at least IMO, that Patton, even if hating them, wouldn't ever to think to question nor to refuse to obey the President orders...Knowing how much Patton hated Communism. All I have to say Is Beijing or bust baby.
In a ship I don't find it odd, but in a tank... dunno why, really.Such wonderful names as Rose, Pansy, Tulip, Veronica, Sunflower, and, I kid you not, Snowflake.
I wouldn't want to be the sorry bastard tasked with telling him!Now, I'm also imagining the face of Dough, when and if somebody 'd will communicate him about the Patton's new command... I'm pretty sure that the yells 'd be heard from Washington.
That's basically the idea that gets him out of CaliforniaAlthough what was it that Ernie King denied saying when named Commander of the US Fleet. "When the going gets tough they send for the sons of bitches."
I like to think that he sailed it, at least somewhere, sometime between the wars.Could be posible that while he wait the President answer if he 'd 'll spending the time along with Bea in his schooner?
I'm honouredYou magnificent sonofabitch.
Can't give away the answer to this yet, I'm afraid. Though you might find a clue in the poem "Through a Glass, Darkly" if you look hard enough.Would patton accept the Chinese ultimatum about the USA army no crossing the line or would just say NUTS and try to copy OTL Macarthur and think he could defeat China
Stalin wouldn't. He knew the USSR would be screwed in such a war, and every action he took during the war suggests he wasn't willing to take hardly any risk that could result in one. Mao I'm less sure about.Would the Soviet Union and it's allies and/or communist China really risk nuclear war with USA and it's allies and NATO over Korea?
That one's going to be fun to writeOne of the interesting questions is whether Patton resists MacArthur's appointment of Ned Almond to command the X Corps.
There's a lot of good arguments to be made on both sides about this. I don't want to say too much about this just yet, but rest assured that Patton won't be doing just whatever Walker did.I doubt that the US Army or it's Allies will do any better under Patton as against they did in real life. Afterall, Patton was well known for his "charging" attitude to war and it was exactly that which got the US Army in so much trouble in real life after Pusan. They charged up the valleys and ignored the ridges which was where the Chinese and Korean armies were and which caused the US Army to "bug out" when they were outflanked. Patton would have made the same mistakes IMO. He'd have charged just as happily up the valleys and ignored the same ridges.
I doubt that the US Army or it's Allies will do any better under Patton as against they did in real life. Afterall, Patton was well known for his "charging" attitude to war and it was exactly that which got the US Army in so much trouble in real life after Pusan. They charged up the valleys and ignored the ridges which was where the Chinese and Korean armies were and which caused the US Army to "bug out" when they were outflanked. Patton would have made the same mistakes IMO. He'd have charged just as happily up the valleys and ignored the same ridges.