The German column was advancing toward the overwhelmed American troops. The panzer grenadiers were aboard armored vehicles ...

SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. - "Chaplain, how much prayer is being done at Third Army?" These famous words were once spoken by former Gen. George S. Patton, late commander of Third Army, whose ...

(20th Century Fox/U.S. Army) 2. Patton's Opening Speech Was a Real Speech. Mostly, anyway. The speech in the beginning of the movie was a recreation of one Patton really gave to the Third Army ...

Hope was on its last breath. On April 29, 1945, 80 years ago, the prisoners were finally liberated by Gen. George Patton's ...

Patton. Patton, then 32 ... During World War II, he commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in North Africa and the U.S. Third Army in Europe, where he earned the nickname "Old Blood and Guts." ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Gen. George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city scarred from years of Allied bombing.

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 ...

Patton instructed his men: “Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day.” He believed the Third Army’s nearly 500 chaplains ...

Before he would lead the U.S. 3rd Army across western Europe, Gen. George Patton spent the first half of 1944 in charge of a somewhat different command. It was the First U.S. Army Group ...