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

(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 ...

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 ...

George S. Patton Jr. during World War II was a stinker? Diaz knew that his father, Gregorio Diaz, had written the “Third Army March” in 1945. But he’d never heard it. It hadn’t been played ...

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

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.

George Patton’s Third Army. Along with an Army band playing, the general’s granddaughter Helen Patton was in attendance for the commemoration. 80 years ago this weekend several Allied armies ...

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." ...

The Third Army by the end of the war had almost 450,000 Americans — 36 divisions I believe. [Patton] practiced what I like to call American Blitzkrieg. He was the primary theorist in American ...