In some cases, as with the radar-controlled fuse on artillery shells mentioned earlier, Bush acted alone when he sensed a weak link. The Army initially paid little attention to the fuse, so Bush got on a plane and flew straight to battlefield headquarters in Europe. He was received by General Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff. “What the devil are you doing over here?” Smith asked Bush. “Don’t we have enough civilians in the theater without your joining?” “I [came] over to a dense bed of ignorance,” Bush replied, “to try to prevent the destruction of one of the best weapons of
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