getting ready to lower it, and he gets this gut feeling and he turns to his, sort of his assistant, george meeks, an african-american soldier who basically keeps his uniform looking as good as it does, he says, george, i don't feel right without my ivory-handled pistols. would you go get them for me. and the back blast from the back canons crush the little boat and they have to drop it over the side. and you kind of adds to the intuition that he knew something bad was going to happen. all of his stuff was lost except the ivory-handled pistols that he's so well known for. he was supposed to land at 8:00 a.m. he actually lands at 12:00, because of this naval battle. as he gets into the craft he tips his helmet to those onboard. he eats it up. in fact, there's george right there. george meeks, that gentleman right there. patton meets him in 1928 when he goes to fort reilly on one of his tours. and the house that the pattons move into, the people that were there previously say, oh, we've got a great cleaning lady, you should use her. and she's got this boyfriend, and he's george meeks, who's a priva

this is george meeks' assistant. he cried through the whole ceremony. but, you know, planes would fly in during the funeral. the trains would slow down for about 20 years after that, every time they passed by the cemetery. but patton was buried in a common grave. but over the years, so many people trekked through just to see his grave, they had to move it to the front of the cemetery. i had mentioned jean gordon, patton had the affair with, after his death beatrice went to his brother-in-law and said, i would like to have a meeting with jean gordon. but i want it to be a surprise. don't tell her i'm asking for this. he said, sure. so jean gordon shows up in the office. and there's beatrice. she kind of stands there. and jean gordon is shocked. and beatrice lays out an hawaiian curse on her. one that, may the flesh run off your skin, and freaks her out. she screams and runs out of the room. two weeks later jean gordon commits suicide, puts her head in the oven and turns the gas on. carlo deste wrote about this and said the rumor, he had not been able to

and this african-american soldier, it's not george meeks, he said this guy had gone awol from his unit because he knew patton in his younger years and wanted to serve with him in sicily. patton's 7th army starts pushing up the spine of sicily and is headed towards palermo. this is a dead german. patton in his photo albums called this a good german. and he took so many pictures of dead germans that he started writing "gg" underneath for good german. he said germans would boony tbop the dead bodies. i think the american soldiers stopped risking anything at that point. this is a very interesting photograph that patton took. a lot of the stuff he takes is of ancient ruins or of the troops of different things. but look at this. the top here is an arrow. and at the bottom right about there is another arrow. and what he did is he looked at this german tank and said, you know what? the germans are adding more armor to the front and in front of the machine gun. we need to do the same. so he took these pictures, put the arrows on it and mailed this to aberdeen proving grounds in maryland and sai