RWTF, glad you took my comment in the spirit it was intended. Like you, my 1st father in law served with Patton in Europe. He flew a single engine forward observer aircraft, and may very well have ferried the general back to the rear as someone else posted earlier in this thread. He didn't talk much about the war, but did brag about the aircraft he flew; said it had redundant systems all around, so if one cable got shot away, another would serve. He certainly still respected Patton...Geo