“My dear Clarke … it looks as if you may be having not too good a time and I do hope that all will go well with you. … We are on the way to lend a hand.” Gen. Bernard Montgomery to Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, 15 September 1943, when Clark’s three British and two American divisions were being hammered by Germans at Salerno. Quoted by Rick Atkinson in The Day of Battle.
(Had Clark a proper American “go to hell” attitude, he might have called out Montgomery the next time the two met. Had Montgomery sent Patton the same letter, Patton would not have waited for a next meeting, but arranged one forthwith.)
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