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Patton's words were later written down by a number of troops who witnessed his remarks, and so a number of iterations exist with differences in wording. [21] Historian Terry Brighton constructed a full speech from a number of soldiers who recounted the speech in their memoirs, including Gilbert R. Cook, Hobart R. Gay, and other junior soldiers ...
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.
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I've now added both File:Patton speech 1 April 1944 front view.png and File:Patton speech 1 April 1944 side view.jpg to Commons, with full explanations of both. And I added the side view (because it shows Patton better) to the article itself. Wasted Time R 13:15, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
The fortifications of Metz consisted of several forts and observation posts with connecting entrenchments and tunnels. The city had fallen to the German forces when France was defeated in 1940. [ 3 ] Following the fall of France, the city was immediately annexed to the Third Reich , as were most districts previously annexed to the Reich that ...
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." — Benjamin Franklin “If the only prayer you said was ‘thank you,’ that would be enough.” ― Meister Eckhart
A section of the Mannerheim Line. The flexible defense is a military theory about the design of modern fortifications.The examples of "flexible" defense-lines (Mannerheim Line, Árpád Line, Bar Lev Line) are not based on dense lines of heavily armed, large and expensive concrete fortifications as the systems such as the Maginot Line were.
But I would be inclined to use the full image, rather than cropping it. This full one gives a better portrayal of what the stage looked like and that others were on it as well. Now I see when this photo is from. It's a different angle of the photo on page 139 of the book Historic Photos of General George Patton by Russ Rodgers. Per the caption ...