United States Army general (1885–1945)
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He slapped shell-shocked soldiers, cursed his way across Europe in a tank column, and died in a car crash weeks after the Third Reich fell. Patton's genius for armored warfare made him invaluable; his mouth made him a liability.
Born in 1885, Patton passed through West Point, designed a cavalry saber, and placed fifth in the modern pentathlon at the 1912 Olympics. He saw his first combat chasing Pancho Villa in motor vehicles, then commanded the U.S. tank school in France during World War I and was wounded in action. Between the wars he became central to the Army's armored doctrine. In World War II he rehabilitated the broken II Corps after Casablanca, raced to Messina ahead of every other Allied commander in Sicily, then was yanked from the field for slapping two soldiers he deemed cowards. Given the Third Army after…
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The publicity I have been getting, a good deal of which is untrue, and the rest of it ill considered, has done me more harm than good.
The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble.
I finished the Koran – a good book and interesting.
Of all the many talks I had in Washington, none gave me such pleasure as that with you. There were two reasons for this. In the first place, you are about my oldest friend.
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
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