Creighton Abrams

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a United States Army General who commanded US military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72.

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• They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
  • Uttered during the Battle of the Bulge

• Give a soldier an anvil, just a hunk of metal, and drive him out into the desert and leave him. In two weeks - when you go to get him, the anvil will be broken.
  • On the need for a soldier proof tank.

• When eating an elephant take one at a time.