George Patton the Saber King

“Keep on advancing…whether we go over, under, or through the enemy,” George Patton had told his troops a couple of days before the invasion. Now Patton was a very brave man he wanted no more then to go to war and die for his country. His war life began in Mexico were he became a captain, he was in one of the first and most successful tank corps, and he took down large cities capturing over 100,000 Germans.

To begin with George Patton had is first real taste of battle in 1915, when he was leading cavalry patrols against Poncho Villa at Fort Bliss along the Mexican border. In 1916 he was selected to aide John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Mexico. In Mexico, Patton impressed Pershing by personally shooting and killing the Mexican leader Julio Cardenas during the Battle of Columbus. Pershing promoted Patton from Lt. To captain and invited him to lead Pershing’s Headquarters Troop once they left Mexico. In November 1942, Patton led the Western Task Force ashore in Morocco in the Allied invasion of North Africa. In March 1943, he took command of the Second U.S. Army corps and won one of the first major U.S. victories of the war at El Guettar.

Thereafter George Patton became captain he was sent to Germany in 1943 he used assault and defense tactics to lead his 7th U.S. Army to victory at the invasion of Sicily. On D-day in 1944, when the allies invaded Normandy, President Eisenhower granted Patton command of the 3rd U.S. Army. With Patton’s leadership, the 3rd Army swept across France capturing town after town. Charging straight into the heart of Germany, Patton had captured 10,000 miles of enemy territory within a 10-day march, and liberated Germany from the Nazi’s in the process. When the Germans su...

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...orge Patton was a great asset to World War II, with his tank skills and his sneaky strategies. Patton had an amazing shot and never thought twice about doing something which got him in loads of trouble with the President at times. People out there probably wonder what would have been changed if Patton never wanted to join the military in the first place. How would the world be different without him in charge?

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