Episode 155 - Battle of Hurtgen Forest Part 1: Courtney Hodges Hates His Own Soldiers
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The Greatest Generation to Deal With PTSD
By 1944, all of the bad, bad assery that made Hodges career was gone. Historian Rick Ekkidsen notes that while Hodges was perfectly fine as a commander for the drive towards Germany, the months had worn on him. He paced and spoke to himself and he was constantly drinking and smoking. All of those sound like coping mechanisms for untreated PTSD to me. Now we've talked about terrible micromanagers before, but this brings into play another problem.
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