In March 1945 the Rhine River was the last great barrier to the heart of Germany. General George S. Patton of US 3rd Army and Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery were both desperate to cross the ...

Instead, my father—the namesake and only son of the World War II general George S. Patton Jr., and a decorated general and famously tough warrior in his own right—choked up. "I'm sorry ...

George S. Patton Jr. Audacious and profane, General George S. Patton Jr. was one of the ablest and most controversial U.S. commanders in World War II. The San Gabriel, California native was fond ...

Considered one of the most successful combat generals in US history, General George S. Patton died on December 21, 1945, twelve days after breaking his neck in a car accident near Mannheim, Germany.

We have to ask ourselves: What’s more important, fewer insulting remarks or less cancer? General George Patton was an anti-Semite. Although he commanded a large number of Jewish soldiers ...

The peacetime army of the late 1930s would have had no real place for a General George S. Patton. We, of course, live in lesser times (though, we can cringe at the idea what Sherman or Truman ...

The story of General Patton has some of history's greatest speeches in a movie using great voices. However, the real voice of George C. Patton was much different. There are only a handful of men ...

And is it possible as some say that the General's freakish collision with an Army truck, on the day before his departure for US, was not really an accident? Or was Patton not only dismissed by his ...