General Patton George Smith Jr. George Smith Patton (1885. 11.11–1945.12.21) Four-star general in the United States Army.
U.S. four-star General George Smith Barton Jr
Born into a family of soldiers in Reykweniad, southern California. He entered the Virginia Military Academy in 1903. He entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1904. In the first academic year, Barton repeated the grade for one year due to poor grades in foreign languages and mathematics. After graduating from the U.S. Army Officer School (West Point) in 1909, he served in the Cavalry Corps. Pershing's lieutenants took part in the armed intervention in Mexico. In 1917, he went to France with the American Expeditionary Force to fight in the war.
Patton before World War I
In November of the same year, he was responsible for the formation of the first armored brigade of the US Army. In September 1918 he commanded the brigade in the Battle of Saint-Mières. After returning to China in 1919, he worked in the Tank Training Center. He graduated from the Army Staff College in 1932. In 1935, he became the director of intelligence of the Hawaii Military District. In July 1940, he was appointed brigade commander of the Armored Brigade. In December, he was promoted to major general and became the commander of the 2nd Panzer Division. In 1942 he became commander of the 1st Panzer Corps. In November of the same year, as commander of the Western Task Force of the North African Expeditionary Force, he led his troops to participate in the North African landing campaign and occupied French Morocco. He was later responsible for the formation of the U.S. 7th Army. From March to April 1943, he was the commander of the 2nd U.S. Army. Promoted to lieutenant general in April.
Three-star Lieutenant General Patton
From July to August, he commanded the US 7th Army to participate in the Sicily landing campaign. In January 1944, he was appointed commander of the U.S. 3rd Army in Britain. In July, he went to Normandy, France, and on August 1, he led his troops into battle, breaking into the Brittany Peninsula and central France. He then joined forces with other Allied forces in inflicting heavy losses on the Germans at the Battle of Falaise and pursuing the fleeing enemy in the direction of Lorraine. During the Battle of the Ardennes, he was ordered to lead his troops to the aid of the American troops trapped in Bastogne and to repel the German attack. From March to May 1945, he led his army to break through the Siegfi Line, crossed the Rhine River, broke into the hinterland of Germany, occupied the western part of Czechoslovakia, and entered the Czecho-Austrian border. After the surrender of Germany, he became military commander of Bavaria. In October of the same year, he became commander of the 15th Army, but was killed in a car accident in December.
General Patton is saluting like a soldier
He was brave and tenacious in battle, decisive in command, full of offensive spirit, good at taking advantage of the advantages of armored troops to carry out rapid mobility and long-distance attacks, and was called "bloody veteran" by his subordinates; compared with the same swear words, the five-star admiral Halsey of the Navy, who was bold and fierce on the battlefield, Patton seemed bold and careful. One of the reforms Patton made that still affects the U.S. military to this day is that the chaplain's Sunday sermon time should not exceed 15 minutes. Patton was born in 1885 in California to a military family. He grew up in love with the limelight and aspired to become a general. After returning to China in 1919, he returned to the cavalry unit and engaged in tank research at the same time. He graduated from the Army Staff College in 1932. In 1935, he became the director of intelligence of the Hawaii Military District. In the spring and summer of 1940, after Germany swept through Western Europe with tanks as the main force, the United States began to pay attention to the construction of armored forces. Patton was appointed brigade commander of the Armored Brigade in July, and in December he was promoted to commander of the newly formed 2nd Panzer Division, where he was promoted to major general. In 1942, he was promoted to commander of the 1st Panzer Army. In November of the same year, as commander of the Western Task Force of the North African Expeditionary Force, he led his troops to participate in the North African landing campaign and occupied French Morocco. He was later responsible for the formation of the U.S. 7th Army. In March and April 1943, he joined the 2nd Army, which was defeated by Rommel, and succeeded Fredendall as its commander; in April he was promoted to lieutenant general. From July to August of the same year, he commanded the US 7th Army to participate in the Sicily landing campaign and took messina, the capital of the island, before Montgomery. In January 1944, he went to Britain to become commander of the U.S. 3rd Army. After landing in Normandy in June, the Allies followed suit with the 3rd Army, and in August entered the Brittany Peninsula and central France, where they immediately joined forces with the Allies in the Battle of Falaise to inflict heavy losses on the Germans and pursue them in the direction of Lorraine. During the Battle of the Ardennes, which began in December of that year, he was ordered to lead his troops to the aid of the American troops trapped in Barstow pinch, repelling the Germans. From March to May 1945, Barton led his troops to break through the German "Siegfried Line", cross the Rhine River, break into the German hinterland, and enter the border of Czechoslovakia and Austria. After Germany surrendered, he was transferred to the 15th Army commander and Bavarian military administrator. Patton is brave and tenacious in combat, attaches importance to the role of tanks, emphasizes rapid attack, and is known as "hot blood and iron gall" and "blood gall veteran". He died in a car accident on December 21, 1945 (there is substantial evidence that Patton's car accident was a murder within the U.S. military). After the liberation of Paris in August 1945, the French Legion of Patton's Army took the lead in entering the city of Paris, as the first unit to go to Paris, allowing the French to liberate themselves, reflecting the humane side of Patton.