Knox, Kentucky, for their generous help, especially Candace Fuller of the also goes to the staffs of the US Army Military History Institute atĬarlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, and the National Archives and RecordsĪll rights reserved.

The author would like to thank the Patton Museum at Ft. Museum’s splendid library and research center. ZALOGA © Osprey Publishing įirst published in Great Britain in 2010 by Osprey Publishing, Midland House, West Way, Botley, Oxford OX2 0PH, UK 44-02 23rd St, Suite 219, Long Island City, NY 11101, USA Michamps Allerborn Chifontaine 78 26 VG Arloncourt Longvilly Bizory Oberwampac Mageret NierderBenonchamps Wampach x Neffe xxx Oubourcy Patton’s exploits are described and analyzed here in this new study of one of most interesting and controversial figures in American military history. But Patton’s greatest fame would come a year later during the breakout from Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge and the crossing of the Rhine. Having chased bandits in the Mexican border war of 1917, he led the first US tank units in World War I.After the Kasserine Pass debacle in North Africa in 1943, he redeemed the US Army’s reputation with victories in Tunisia and later on Sicily in July 1943. was the iconic American field commander of World War II, and is widely regarded as the US Army’s finest practitioner of mechanized warfare.

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