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Old 91st Battaliongathers for reunionhere this weekendBy JIM WICKERTimes-NewsIt’s been something like 46 years, but members of the Army’s old 91st Chemical Mortar Battalion still remember World War II’s most flam-bouyant warrior, the late Gen. George Patton.“He was something else,“ recalls Tate Horton of Burlington, the 91st outfit’s wartime company commander. Horton said he saw Patton only once, although the battalion was a part of the famous general’s Third Army.“We saw him from a distance when he came to inspect a pontoon bridge. He had pearl-handled pistols— he was a two-pistol general— and he was riding in his shiny Jeep,” Horton said.Horton and his men were impressed by Patton’s brightly polished, Army green Jeep. While all other Jeeps were dingy and dirty. Patton’s four-wheel drive method of transportation was always kept shiny — apparently by a staff that did a lot of washing and waxing.Talk of Patton and highly publicized war events such as the Battle of the Bulge and the Battle of Central Europe will echo through the halls of the Holiday Inn in Burlington during the next three days as veterans of the 91st gather forPlease see REUNION/C2
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Burlington Times News
Burlington, North Carolina, US
Thu, Sep 27, 1990
Page 19
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