George S Patton Leaders

Leader of the Third Army George S. Patton Purple Heart recipient George S. Patton, leader of the third army during world war two will go down as one of the greatest Generals in history for the hundreds of years to come setting an example of honorable and lion-hearted leading on and off the battlefield. The Strong stone faced man born on November 11th 1885 in San Gabriel California would go onto lead a life time of greatness. As an Olympic athlete General Patton always strived to maintain a strong and healthy lifestyle hoping that he would be reincarnated as a great man. Throughout his battles he always showed a courageous minded personality wielding his duel trade mark colt 45 ivory handled pistols with his initials engraved in them.

Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. On that fateful day American troops storm the beaches of Normandy for the largest invasion of world war two. As General Patton watches over his men through the steadily held binoculars, the German bunkers flash through the muzzles of MG-42 machine guns. As the ramps of the landing crafts open men fall left and right as Patton studies his Omaha beach map. The Invasion of Normandy was home to a massive force of men all as planned by General Patton under the President Dwight D Eisenhower. The large scale invasion was the first step to gaining a foothold to fight against Nazi occupied Germany and this invasion tactic would prove to be successful earning General Patton much respect. On D-day 448,000 tons of ammo was present leading to shell casings and fragments to lie across the baron and bloody beach. 12,000 allied airmen and 2,000 aircraft were lost in the sky of burning fury. 9,386 allied men still lie in Normandy in present day all facing west towards the U.S. 307 of these men have no engraving on their tombstones and are unknown to this day for their families and friends

Six days prior to his death an American transport truck hit Patton’s car in the side at a high speed leaving him paralyzed as the age of sixty. After being hospitalized for six days he passed away of congestive heart failure as his wife read him the crinkled pages of a paperback book. The purple heart recipient and General of the third army had been injured on the battlefield as well as a commander driving a tank in World War 1 and he was now dead from a car accident. When asked about what he thought about death many years before Patton replied with he replied with,” It is foolish and wrong to mourn for the men who have died rather we should thank God that such men