George Patton was a descendent of a wealthy Virginia family. [Patton R.] Patton was born in 1885, in San Gabriel, California. In 1909, He graduated from West Point. It was afterwards that he started his career in the military. In 1916, He was an aide to General. Pershing during the punitive expedition to Mexico. [Biography] In 1917, Pershing and Patton travel to France where they learned how to use the newest weapon of war, the tank. [Biography] This would play a major significance in the up coming war.

The American's first battle with Rommel, the desert fox, was a disaster. The American forces needed a leader who could whip the troops into a fighting machine. That man was Patton. Patton took control of the Second Armored Division, in January 1942. [Biography] When he learned, that Rommel's forces were going to ambush hi

After D-Day, the Third Army was formed with Patton in charge. March 1945, Hitler planed his last great offensive, The battle of the bulge. Hitler sent all his forces to attack the weak middle of the fronts. Allied positions one after another were overwhelmed and overrun. Bastone was held by the 101st Airborne, but with no supplies and no replacement soldiers, they would not hold long. At an allied staff meeting plans on how to rescue these men were discussed. Patton proposed he would charge into the "battle of the bulge", approx. 100 miles away in 3 days. He was one day late due to weather. Patton astonished the world; his army had pressed through tough resistance and relieved the 101st Airborne at Bastone. [Blumenson]

After Berlin was captured and the war officially over, Patton want the Allies to attack Russia, while the equipment was still over here. His anticommunist comment found Patton relived of his command of the Third Army. Shortly afterwards on December 9, 1945, Patton was severely injured in a car accident. Twelve days later he died. [Biography]

German Commanding Officers felt that Patton was the General that would lead the invasion on Europe. The Allies used this in there D-Day deception. The German felt that the invasion would come directly across the channel at Calais not at N

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