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At a special meeting of all the highest ranking generals in the American, British, and Canadian armies, it was decided that the toughest job would go to General Patton and his Third Army. They would have to relieve the soldiers who had been surrounded by the Germans at the Belgian city of Bastogne.
George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
Dubbed the Black Panthers because of their panther’s head insignia, the tank battalion arrived in France in October 1944. The troops were assigned to the US Third Army, which was under the command of the flamboyant General George S. Patton, one of the greatest-ever practitioners of tank warfare.
The real Patton presented that speech on October 28, 1944, in France to the soldiers of the 761st Tank Battalion, nicknamed “Patton’s Panthers.” They were the first ‘Negro’ armored unit in the history of the U.S. Army to see combat.
13 lut 2024 · Patton's Third Army in World War II : a photographic history by Green, Michael, 1952- author
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12 cze 2023 · When the Second World War began in September 1939, General Patton was serving as deputy commander of the 2nd Armored Division. As tensions rose with both Germany and Japan, America began to mobilize and modernize its armed forces, and Patton played a key role in developing its armored warfare doctrine.
