From me also many thanks for that link, Fred, that is a very good read! I hadn't come across Bruce Clarke before, but Eisenhower describes him in a very sympathetic way. Glad to know that there is a biography of the man. Will hunt for that one.
Eisenhower's
The Bitter Woods was my main source in answering this question. Wilmot's
Struggle For Europe was secondary as was McDonald's
A Time For Trumpeths/Triumphs
I was bound to get the right answer sooner or later, as I was running out of officers anyway.
One point of attention though; Martin, you wrote that not much was heard of either after the war, but Ridgeway went on to command the UN forces in Korea after McDouglas was dismissed, am I right? That made him the most prolific US Commander at the time, I guess.
I am at work now, so I can't come up with a decent Q. Give me a couple of hours...
