From Private to Four-Star General: Courtney Hicks Hodges - Part 1: Humble Begginings
From Private to Four-Star General: Courtney Hicks Hodges - Part 1: Humble Begginings The Mustang Officer Dubbed the 'Soldier's Soldier' and 'General's General' by General Omar Nelson Bradley, General Courtney Hicks Hodges occupied an unusual place in the annals of American WWII Army Generals. In fact, he can be best described as an ‘Anti-Patton’. Source: Wikipedia There are a plethora of adjectives that can be used to describe the 57 year-old, courtly, closely clipped and trimmed moustache, grey-haired General Hodges. Calm, restrained, quiet, modest, soft-spoken, shy, inarticulate, self-effacing, reserved, and more focused on infantry-based ground fighting operations (as he put it, “We were a zonal army. We just slugged. …”), he was not one to become a public headlines sensation or show-stealer. In fact, he was a verse to tumult and glitter, he preferred this restrained behavior to publicity-provoking eccentricities. Discipline, General Hodges maintained, co...