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Patton was made a central figure in an elaborate phantom army deception scheme, and the Germans believed he was in Dover preparing the—fictitious—First United States Army Group for an invasion of the Pas de Calais. [12] [13] Patton frequently kept his face in a scowl he referred to as his "war face". [14]
Patton knew that one of the inmates was his son-in-law, Lieutenant Colonel John K. Waters. The raid was a failure, and only 35 men made it back; the rest were either killed or captured, and all 57 vehicles were lost. Patton reported this attempt to liberate Oflag XIII-B as the only mistake he made during World War II. [214]
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Bradley's memoir, A Soldier's ...
Patton, George S. (1947), War as I Knew It, Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN 978-1-4193-2492-5 Robert H. Scales, "Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War" (PDF) . Retrieved 15 February 2021 . , U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press Reprint
Extracts from the typescript with substantial additions and amendments were published by his wife as War as I Knew it in 1947. A combined edition was published by Martin Blumenson as The Patton Papers in 1974. The diaries were later deposited in the Library of Congress where they were transcribed and uploaded to the internet in 2016.
Broadcasting under the name John Bryson, [2] [3] he was the first war correspondent to cross the Rhine River on March 22, 1945 at Oppenheim, Germany. [4] He was with Patton when the Third Army liberated Geran administered POW camps at Hammelburg, Ziegenhain in Schwalmstadt-Trutzhain and Buchenwald in Weimar. After the war ended in Europe, he ...
Patton awarded it to him personally. It is disputed whether Patton knew his son-in-law was being held at the camp, but many at the camp and Abraham Baum believed so. Patton sent an aide, Major Alexander Stiller, with the task force, purportedly to identify Waters so he could be taken back with them.
Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General is a book written by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard about the final year of World War II and the death of General George Patton, specifically whether it was an accident or an assassination.