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Bookmark or Share- George S. Patton - New World EncyclopediaGeorge Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S.Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
- George Patton - WW2, Military Leader, Controversy | BritannicaGeorge Patton - WW2, Military Leader, Controversy: In time Patton’s legacy has come to be defined by his controversial and sometimes erratic behaviour almost as much as by his martial prowess. When a pair of mules blocked a bridge during the Sicily offensive in 1943, halting his armoured convoy and making it vulnerable to enemy fire, Patton personally shot the animals and ordered them pushed ...
- The Real Story of General George Patton, Jr's Death & Final DaysGeorge S. Patton, Jr., was buried at 0930 hours on December 24, 1945, among other American soldiers, many of whom had died while under his command. The ceremony lasted 25 minutes. In the final minute of the ceremony, Master Sergeant William G. Meeks, the man who had served Patton faithfully as his orderly since April 1942, presented Beatrice ...
- 10 Things You May Not Know About George Patton | HISTORY9. His grandfather was mayor of Los Angeles. Patton’s maternal grandfather, Benjamin Davis Wilson, was a powerful southern California landowner who became the second elected mayor of Los Angeles ...
- Patton and the Battle of the Bulge: 'As soon as you’re through with me ...At a presidential press conference a dozen years after the December 1944 Battle of the Bulge, President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed, “I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found…how near we were to being whipped.” On the enemy side, with Lieutenant General George S. Patton below the southern flank of the surprise ...
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