Speaking of Patton. I took Carl Mydans (famous Life magazine photographer) out to Patton's old marshalling area and then we followed the tank tracks which were still visible north up toward Las Vegas. He got a lot of photos of that and it was really interesting to me. The railroad came right by Patton's main camp and the Army had an agreement with the railroad that when passenger trains came by the train would stop if there were soldiers waiting on the platform. Well, the trains weren't stopping. Patton heard about it and when he heard the next passenger train coming he went out and stood right in the middle of the tracks with one of his guns drawn. The engineer just barely got the train stopped and Patton was in the cab with a cocked revover to the engineer's head yelling at him for not stopping for soldiers. From then on, the trains stopped whether there were soldiers there or not.
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