Mitchell Yockelson describes the relationship between Pershing and Patton during World War I and the events of September 26, 1918 at Meuse-Argonne when Patton is shot in battle. Yockelson is the author of ‘Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing’s Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I’.
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