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The troops cheered George S. Patton and his remarks. He soon learned that he was to lead the Third Army and that his first responsibility was to clear the Brest peninsula of Germans. Patton’s presence was still a secret to the enemy.
Nov 11, 2010 · George Patton was at a welcome club in Knutsford, England, United Kingdom as the guest of honor. Learning that his visit was supposed to be unofficial, he freely spoke of a post-war world in which the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union would together rule the world.
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On March 5, as the First U.S. Army launched its attack, General George S. Patton finally obtained Eisenhower’s authority to advance into the rest of the Rhineland Palatinate.
Mar 18, 2022 · Patton’s II Corps was on the offensive, working to seize the Eastern Dorsal chain of the Atlas Mountains from the Axis forces, in a move that would threaten the right rear of the Germans and Italians defending the Mareth Line facing Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery ’s British Eighth Army.
George Patton, U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theaters during World War II. His strict discipline, toughness, and self-sacrifice elicited exceptional pride within his ranks.
