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Patton's speech to the Third Army was a series of speeches given by General George S. Patton to troops of the United States Third Army in 1944, before the Allied invasion of France. The speeches were intended to motivate the inexperienced Third Army for impending combat.
George Smith Patton Jr. (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
The Biscari massacre was a war crime committed by members of the United States Army during World War II. [1] [2] It refers to two incidents in which U.S. soldiers were involved in killing 71 unarmed Italian and 2 German prisoners-of-war at the Regia Aeronautica ' s 504 air base in Santo Pietro, a small village near Caltagirone, southern Sicily, Italy on 14 July 1943.
1944: Patton's Speech, a profanity-laden speech to the United States Third Army by United States General George S. Patton, calling for the troops' bravery in spite of their fears. It was given prior to the Normandy landings.
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 ...
Actor George C. Scott turned in a towering, glowering performance as World War II general George S. Patton in 1970's "Patton," which won Scott best actor and signaled the arrival of a hot new ...
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Bradley, Patton's former subordinate, would become Patton's superior in the final months of the war. Patton was passed over to lead the invasion in northern Europe. In September, Bradley — Patton's junior in both rank and experience — was selected to command the First United States Army that was forming in England to prepare for Operation ...