"Heretic, Rebel, a Thing to Flout" - Today's Almanac—July 21, 2010

He arrived in Europe in May and saw Paris for the first time in transit to Italy as the city was under German artillery bombardment. His first duty in Milan was to report to a munitions factory explosion which killed dozens of young women .... He famously claimed to have jumped in a reconnaissance Jeep and entered the city without resistance ahead of all other troops and to have “personally liberated the Bar of the Ritz Hotel,” This account was later proved to be highly ...