General Patton
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Challenge 155 -- Image 1
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The statue of General Patton at the memorial in Indio, California led inevitably to memories of my Dad, who was in an armored signal battalion in Patton's Third Army in WWII as it pushed from Normandy through France and ultimately to Czechoslovakia. His unit trained at Indio, too. I've used a stock photo of a Sherman tank as the background here. The red circle came originally from associations to the Red Ball Express, the remarkable logistical effort that kept Patton supplied with enough gas to keep advancing (maybe too obscure a reference for all but ex-Ordnance Corps guys), but I decided it worked as the sun setting behind Patton as he moved east across France, too. The font is Stencil.

Patton Tank
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