Wesley W. Yale

He wrote number of articles on warfare toward the end of his career as a specialist on nuclear strike control, and served as a senior analyst at Stanford Research Institute.

[1] The mission given to the 11th and the 87th Armored divisions was to swing west around Bastogne, Belgium and capture the heights south of Houffalize, and secure the Ourthe River line.

Yale shouted orders in his radio, and tanks and mobile guns moved toward the ridge, and after raising his hand, he gave the command to fire.

[9] The French, English, Russians, Polish, Dutchmen, Belgians, Norwegians and American prisoners in the camp started singing "Georgie Patton, come and get us!

[10] Then at Stamsried, Col. Yale's brigade found hundreds of British prisoners who had been captured by the SS since the Battle of Dunkirk, and discovered others starving at the Posing camp.

Kosiek heroic act of capturing the Nazi Concentration Camps of Mauthausen and Gusen despite being outnumbered, Col. Yale sent a letter to General Patton recommending him for the Legion of Merit.

[12] He commanded leading elements of Patton's Third Army for the greater part of the Battle of the Bulge to the end of World War II.

He also became editor of Armor Magazine, and over the past ten years, was senior analyst on command-control communications at Stanford Research Institute.

[16] When he retired, he served as senior military operations analyst at Stanford Research Institute, with a specialization on mobile warfare.

[13] From their experience fighting in Europe, these retired military officers wrote this book to propose a modern version of “Blitzkrieg” as a means of avoiding lengthy conflicts like Vietnam.