Gasoline To Patton

- After the breakoutfrom the Normandy hedgerows in late July 1944, Allied groundforces advanced so swiftly across France and Belgium that they soon were outrunning their supply lines. Materiel ofall kinds grew scarce, but no commodity was more coveted than gasoline. At the end ofAugust, George Patton's Third Army, the fastest of all the Allied ou~fits, had to pull up and waitfive days after a requisitionfor four hundred thousand gallons was answered with a shipment of 31,975. "My men can eat the…