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In December 1944, Gen. George Patton asked his chaplain for a prayer to improve the weather that was hindering his fight against the Germans. Here is that famous prayer. Almighty and most merciful ...

Patton and Lt. Col. Lyle Bernard near Brolo, Sicily's north coast. (National Archives) “I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found ...