George Patton, who pioneered the introduction of armored warfare into the U.S. Army, later proved himself to be a brilliant front-line commander in World War II, but after World War II, the White House began to question the commander, and General Patton faded from the center of the U.S. Army. The eloquent, eccentric, arrogant, and conceited Patton never lost a single battle in World War II, earning the respect of his soldiers and enjoying great prestige among the American people.
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Patton came from a wealthy Virginia military family. Born on November 11, 1885 in Fort St. Galway, California, he attended the best military preparatory school until he was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point. Patton's lack of learning ability and the possibility of suffering from the learning disability of dyslexia made him not a high-performing student in his class, and in 1909, with an additional year of study, Patton graduated from West Point and later served in the Cavalry Regiment. Enough to compensate for Patton's intellectual flaws is his superhuman energy.
In 1912, Barton represented the U.S. and U.S. troops at the Stockholm Olympic Games, the first modern pentathlon competition in swimming, running, equestrianism, shooting, and fencing. In 1913, he was admitted to the French Cavalry School, returned to the United States after graduation, and published his official army manual on cavalry.
In 1916, Patton joined an expedition led by John Joseph Pershing and traveled to Mexico to pursue Pancho Vera. During this battle, Patton began to use motorized combat vehicles and used cars to engage in fierce battles with the Port Vila Gang Cavalry (an organization of Panchu Vera), and Patton became famous for killing several enemies with his rifle.
In 1917, the United States supported France, and Patton followed Pershing as an aide-de-camp. When Pershing realized that armored fighting vehicles were necessary to break the trench stalemate, he ordered Patton to command the first official armored unit in the United States and established the Armored Corps Training School in Langle in November 1917.
The first battle of the U.S. First Tank Brigade was the Battle of Saint-Mière in 1918, and later during the Merz-Argonne Offensive, assisted by the Tank Brigade, Barton was slightly wounded and awarded the Cross of Service Excellence for his combat bravery, and after the end of World War I, Patton returned to the United States to continue to take charge of the fledgling Armored Forces of the United States and was reassigned to the 314th Tank Brigade.
For the next two decades he remained an important advocate of armored warfare, holding various positions in cavalry regiments and military academies. However, the financial constraints and the Great Depression of peacetime hampered the research and production schedule of the tank. It was not until the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the success of German tank blitzkrieg that the United States began to greatly increase the construction of armored forces.
In July 1940, Patton commanded the U.S. First Armored Brigade, which by April 1941 had expanded to become the U.S. First Armored Division. From March to July 1942, Patton, who had been promoted to the rank of general, trained armored forces at the "Desert Training Center" established along the California-Arizona border, where he formed his American armored combat system.
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Patton also assisted in the development of the U.S. North African landing operations and led the Western Task Force in the war. In March 1943, U.S. troops suffered a crushing defeat at The Casserline Pass, and Patton was appointed commander of the U.S. Second Army. He quickly transformed a demoralized, mobile army into an efficient combat force, replaced subordinate officers, and strictly disciplined the U.S. Second Army to relaunch the offensive, contributing to the Allied victory over the Axis in North Africa.
In July 1943, Patton, promoted to lieutenant general, led the United States Seventh Marine Corps to the Sicily Landings. In an informal contest, the brave and bold Patton defeated the army led by the cautious Montgomery in the capture of Messina, and Patton rose to fame in the United States, but was hated in the Allies.
After securing military safety in Sicily, Patton traveled to the hospital to see the wounded. Two of the uninjured recruits with "war neurasthenia" who were seeking hospital treatment slapped them and called them "cowards" attracted a great deal of public attention. Barton thus held only a lower position in the U.S. capture of Sicily, but played no role in his later invasion of the Italian mainland.
In January 1944, Patton was transferred to England to assist in the preparation of the Normandy landing battle plan. Patton, who was still punished for the slap, only commanded the "paper" troops to attract the attention of the Germans, so that the Germans thought that the main battlefield was on the island of Calais, not Normandy. Before the end of the Normandy landings, Patton regained command of the Army and became commander of the Third Army.
Patton, who commanded the Third Army, gained fame as one of the best army commanders of World War II. On 1 August, he led his army through the Afranche beachhead and within two weeks had annihilated more than 100,000 Germans at Fals. Barton then continued eastward, reaching the Saar River at the end of August.
Patton's tactical centerpiece was the use of armored units for mobile operations and assaults. His tank corps attacked as fast as they could, preventing the Germans from establishing new defensive fronts, and his army marched so fast that it often kept the soldiers on the supply line from keeping up with their speed.
When it came to a situation where supplies were essential, he would make a request or simply steal food and ammunition from other troops. Patton sometimes ignored orders from his superiors, pouring all his men into battle, despite the principle that leaving a large reserve would be beneficial to combat.
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In December 1944, Patton moved the Third Army to Metz. At this time, the German army launched a surprise attack on the Ardennes, launching a salient operation (tank warfare), posing a threat to the Rear Forces of the Allied Powers. Patton wisely ordered the army to turn around at a ninety-degree angle and led his army to the east to drive straight into the rescue of Bastogn Theater, stopping the German army from advancing.
After the Battle of the Ardennes, Patton then turned to fighting the Germans, and on 22 March 1945 he led his army across the Rhine at Aubenham, where the Third Army, in the course of its rapid march, ruthlessly destroyed all the villages and fortifications that refused to surrender. Patton also encircled another main German force in the Ruhr encirclement, swept through Bavaria, inserted Czechoslovakia and Austria, and ended World War II.
In 1945, when the Allies signed an armistice with the Axis Powers, Patton expressed his views on the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union after the war, stating that the United States should attack the Soviet Union immediately, not wait until it was forced to start a war, which attracted everyone's attention, coupled with his belief that the pre-war Nazis would be necessary to rebuild Germany, thus showing his position of leniency towards these Nazi war criminals, all of which once again deprived Patton of his military power.
His final stint was as military commander in Bavaria, a role related to the army but not important. On December 9, 1945, sixty-year-old Barton was injured in a car accident near Mannheim, died of complications in Heidelberg on December 21, 1945, and was buried in the American Cemetery in Luxembourg, next to soldiers who had fallen during the war across Europe.
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Patton was an "old-fashioned and courageous" man, not a great thinker or theoretician of the art of war, but a brilliant commander of war. Although Patton was not the kind of figure who established the theory of armored warfare like John Frederick Charles Fuller or Heinz Guderian, he won every battle he fought. In fact, Patton was more popular than he was, and his unbridled temper and the positions he made that went beyond his mandate were the reasons he made headliners in the newspapers.
Many of the misguided military leaders who emerged later followed the example of the moody Patton, believing that these "bravados" would make up for their incompetence, while others ended up bothering their subordinates and reducing their productivity. None of these imitators copied Patton's military achievements, because Ofton had the ability to lead the battlefield and boost the morale of the battle to defeat powerful hostile forces.
References: The Legend of General Patton, Full Documentary of World War II, D-Day Landings