Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group gathered at ...

After the victory parades faded, General George S. Patton found himself trapped in a world he no longer understood. As military governor of Bavaria, he clashed with Washington over denazification, ...

The general "led a life of adventure, fighting in almost every major American twentieth century conflict," the National World War II Museum notes. "He often led from the front, and he almost always ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — On Sept. 26, 1918, Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr. was in a bunker near Cheppy, France during World War I; alongside of him was his handpicked orderly, Pvt. Joe Angelo. Patton decided ...

George S. Patton’s final days were filled with bitterness, reflection, and unfinished plans. After returning from his last ...

SUMTER, SC (WIS) - Third Army Commanding General George S. Patton, Jr. continues to have his memory preserved at Patton Hall at Third Army Headquarters on Shaw Air Force Base. “He was a dynamic ...

Known for his work on American armored units in WWII, Yeide combines extensive research in published and archival materials to render a unique sketch of General Patton as seen through the eyes of his ...

Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. was a hard-charging leader that continues to inspire students of military tactics and history. The West Point graduate distinguished himself as a tank commander in World War ...

Like any good soldier, Maj. Gen. George Patton wrote regularly to his wife, though perhaps not as tenderly as she would have liked: “I wish I could get out and kill someone,” he told her in the winter ...

“I didn’t get frightened until three weeks after it had begun, when I began to read the American papers and found … how near we were to being whipped,” President Dwight D. Eisenhower confessed at a ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander, Allied ...