Lee Castle

Colonel Lee Castle commanded a regiment of barrels under General George Patton during Operation Blackbeard. When Colonel Tom Colleton demanded he send his barrels into Sandusky to reach Lake Erie, Castle refused. Not only had Patton explicitly forbidden it, Castle was smart enough to know that barrels would take heavy casualties if they engaged in house-to-house fighting. He suggested Colleton try the "flyboys". He did and was more successful at getting bombers, both Razorbacks and Mules to provide air support.