British general Percy Hobart, a pioneer in the use of armor for strategic mobility, had this nickname.
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Piercing Percy
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Petulant Percy
Hobo. Many in Britain’s military establishment did not care for the armor advocate, and he fell from being a major general of the army to being a corporal in the Home Guard before being called back to service at the personal request of Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the summer of 1940.