Third Army was an Army Command, Corp is a level below in task organization, Third Army wasnt involved in Operation Overlord. Activated in July

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Thank you both for your service!

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Patton was in the Sicily landings?

The only thing that was off was the voice. Patton had a high pitched voice that could cut through the noise of battle like a knife through butter. An example is Michael Caine's command calls in the film "ZULU". FYI Caine was line dog grunt in Korea when the Chinese crossed the Yalu River.

@@andrewwinter7843 thnx but explain better the point , andrew!

OH Yes... In the book that the film was based on "Patton Ordeal and Triumph" the author Ladislas Farago. Noted that in Patton's diaries Patton was very worried, as a young officer, about how high and almost squeaky his voice was. George C Scott has a very deep gravely voice. So while Scott's performance was a masterpiece there was nothing you could do about the that voice. Now the matter of voice. There is a technique in the millitary for voice control to produce what is called a "Command Voice". Frank Herbert in the Sci Fi Classic DUNE took that to an almost mystical level. That said it is a real thing one can master. By pitching one's voice with just the right amount of intensity and at a pitch, usually a higher pitch, one can cut through the confusion of battle and your commands will be heard. Better yet, a proper "command voice" has such an impact on you that while you might disagree with the command your first instinct will be to obey it! Michael Cain in the Film "ZULU" demonstrates, wonderfully, how a good command voice sounds in the midst of the noise of battle. In many scenes where his stuff is OFF CAMERA the viewer can still clearly here his battle commands to his particular part of the battle. Mr. Cain was a combat soldier vet from the Korean War. He KNEW what that voice was supposed to sound like. In the Wehrmacht of World War II German Officers and Non Coms, using very high pitched commands, could drill their troops from as far as a quarter mile away. OH OH MAN I just found THIS, Compare this speech that Patton MADE with the Speech of George C Scott at the beginning of the film. It is kind of startling. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZ90o6513Kmuk4E.html@@MrDarkastar

If anyone would know Patton, Roosevelt Kennedy or even Reagan they would remember them in a movie too

@@andrewwinter7843 Thanks for posting that Patton speech. You're right. Scott did a fantastic job but the real voice was quite different.

+Gina R Nominated 18 times......won just once. I'd say its possible he deserved a lot of wins lol. Love Story won in 1970. Never really paid attention to that music.

+Stephen Cogan didnt G Scott win the oscar but he didnt show up for it - as he didnt believe in the academy...okay just had to look it up...George C Scott stayed home on awards night and watched Hockey.

00Billy First guy to do it. He wasn't for the competition thing. A unique actor but I feel its not just for competition, it's a way to highlight to people that hey....you need to see this performance. It can stand up against almost any acting performance ever to me. He became Patton.

Does anybody even remember who wrote that miserable, repetitive score? It was Francis Lai--who got credit for rescoring works by Bach, Mozart, Franz Gruber, et al. Much like Marvin Hamlisch was rewarded by the Academy for stealing the work of Scott Joplin.

Aelia Cassia "Much like Marvin Hamlisch was rewarded by the Academy for stealing the work of Scott Joplin." I thought the same thing for 40 years, until I looked it up. Hamlisch din't steal Joplin's work. He never claimed it as his own. "Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation." He adapted Joplin's music. Everyone knew it was Joplin's music.

Patton is the finest battlefield commander this country will ever see. Patton led troops from every level from platoon to army. He led the 2nd Armored Division ashore at North Africa. After a bitter battle with German troops Patton was placed in command of II Corps. He whipped the unit into shape and led them to victory across North Africa. He led 7th Army ashore at Sicily outflanking the Germans and liberating the island. He took command of 3rd Army and led them across France to the gates of Germany. When the allies were on the verge of defeat he led 35,000 men in the dead of winter, pulling them out of a winter battle, no rest, no resupply, no hot food, marched them 100 miles in the dead of winter over rough terrain and threw them against the German flank and snatched victory. It would be one hell of a change in world history to see how he would handled the Cold War such as Korea and Vietnam.

@@Cage2053K Easy company said they didn’t need rescuing

I would disagree. That title goes to Grant during the civil war. More broadly for Washington who although not a tactical genius was a strategic one that went to lay down the cornerstone for the USA as a nation. Patton was, like his arch-rival Monty a showman a good commander but not the greatest. Also, like many great generals, he was a little touched in the head.

@@simoncampbell-smith6745 Simon. I appreciate your opinion. However, even though lincoln apprecited Grant, he was a bonifide alcoholic and depressed. He did not tactically orchistrate Vicksburg and Cold Harbor very well and actually admitted his mistakes. He did learn from them and made reparations to turn the tide later. The Civil war is not my fort'e. I will still hold to Patton. Since I do not agree with everything Patton did I still hold him up because of his bold tenacity and strategies despite him being a little eccentric, somewhat narcissistic and a self professed primadona. Lol. Thank you for you insightful comment.

AS A FORMER U.S. MARINE AND VIETNAM VET...YOURS TK?ESTED IN THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATION FROM THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR!!! ONE THING I CAN SAY ABOUT THAT GOD-DAMN ATTACK WAS A GOD-DAMN FAILURE!!! THEY DIDN'T ANNIHILATE THE PACIFIC FLEET

I've been working in Augsburg for the last two years: I'm on the former Messerschmitt factory at Haunstetter Str. Nice little town

As Cav we were more prone to playing "Garryowen"

So proud my dad and his 82nd ABN DIVN F Co, 505th P.I.R. defeated NAZIs,

Amen to that!!!

No man can have greater love than to lay down his life for his brothers. That what they did plus defeating the greatest evil since the Roman empire..Nazism!!!

@@jackseeley2062 Exactly. Glory for Patton and all heroes against nazism.

The Nazis thought Patton was the best general we had..maybe he was!!

@@jackseeley2062 He was.

Tough job, being a tanker.

Respect to your Father. My Grandfather fought in France... I wish I could hear his stories. As a thankful British person thanks to you and your Father. Love the USA

My father fought in Europe also. He was my dearest friend. He started teaching me how to fly when I was 4 years old and made me work with the mechanics in the hangars. He didn't live long enough to see me rise to the rank of Colonel, but he did see me serve in combat just as he had. We have a bond that leads to Heaven.

My father also served in the 3rd. He told me after a Fire fight, he heard a voice saying to him "Dam fine job there!" Dad turned around and saw Patton some 50' behind their position had watched the firefight while setting in a jeep. Dad said thank you sir. Said Patton nodded and then the jeep drove off. AJY

That must have made him feel rather staunchly patriotic to be in the presence of a grand leader

My condolences.

TRUE John!

He also played the EL DUCE! Man i have to admit when i was in the 5th grade i was nuts about Patton!

Born for the role😀

Sometimes an actor becomes the character he or she is playing? Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, Ghandi…

Not only that but I heard after watching this movie Nixon decided to invade Cambodia just what I heard

That's literally the entire movie and the person. It's like....deh dit ta deh dit ta deh dit ta...and that was Patton.

I envy you this, sir! What an amazing happenstance. Good for you!

The real insight there are all the things he relates, when says "battle"

and add Alien and The Ghost and the Darkness.

The Wind and the Lion, Legend, Capricorn One, The Blue Max, Rambo, The Secret of Nimh, Gremlins...He was the absolutely best composer in the music business

I especially love his score for Planet of the Apes!

Amazing!Love the French horn's.

Don't forget Goldsmith's greatest, BLARING-LOUD epics: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Poltergeist, The Mummy and The Secret of Nimh - Goldsmith went INSANE on these wild scores. In the best way possible.

I agree! This kind of Music is the best for mundane paperwork! It makes the time fly!

Michael Hanley Indeed it does! Thank you for your comment.

I hear Aaron Copland's influence in all these works.

Tom, Dick and Harry?

Tunnel King?...is that you?....

The Howze Report reflected that need in the 1960's. The Army languished in the 1950s with new toys, but little in the way of mobility tactics or logistics.

And he did just that in 48 hours.

I can attack with four

Cause George could do it.

My Uncle Verlin (Bow) was in one of the Tanks in one of those 3 division's. 508 Tank Destroyer

It doesn’t end. Patton and his soldiers are glorious and continue existing as men, who fought for the freedom of the world.

@@L_back You're right. Patton is an American folk hero for the ages and his Third Army is a military legend. That's as good as it gets!

Jerry Goldsmith was a fantastic composer. The best of his craft in the 20th century!

@Yuvaez Band of Brothers was TV, therefore ineligible. Platoon: Barber did not compose Adagio for Strings for Platoon, but it's inferior to Jerry, in any event. Zulu, great, but no cigar. This was Jerry's greatest score. Not the greatest war movie theme, though, that was Maurice Jarre's score for Lawrence of Arabia.

The best war movie ever!

A great actor reincarned a great undeated general...

I still use it for motivation

Actually, Goldsmith later remixed this with his MacArthur theme music to make a composite piece, "The Generals." This is just the Patton part.

My Dad. Technical Sgt. Richard Reichard, served in Combat 1944 to.1945 in Italy. And the Philippines 1945. Your Dad and my Dad were heroes. You and I are from good stock.

Really captured Patton's admiration of history and constant references to Rome. The trumpets help visual roman legions marching across the plains of Europe.

Nice thought on trumpets. Along those lines, I've always believed the organ is to convey the devout, church-like view of war that Patton held. It's a brilliant touch, especially for those who've read a lot on Patton. That's exactly how he felt.

Especially the Germans!!!!!!!!

Take that opening speech, and replace "Nazi" and "Hun" with "Islamic Terrorists" and watch the soy-boy SJWs run for cover.

hope those cheering bastards got shot. stupid war, and you can all these damn medals if I could walk again. 1stbn, 3rd marines. silly ass patriotism for corporate profit etc.

patrick bleichner I WOULD HAVE GIVEN ANYTHING TO BE STANDING RIGHT THERE TO SEE THAT. It also would have been difficult for me to no SMILE...!!!!!

we need a new patton

We will not see his like again....God bless him!

Imagine the suffering that could have been spared if hes been allowed to invade Moscow

His time had passed with the end of the war. He should of been quickly sent home. Unlike MacArthur who was more political Patton wasn't suited in rebuilding. To keep him in Germany was a mistake made by Eisenhower and Marshall.

Surprising ,

robert dutrieux

"Sir i just got word from ike he said to remind you not to take Palermo" "Ask him if he wants me to give it back"-patton

Sounds like Trump does today, God Bless him!

I recall reading where Patton said that when his 3rd Army crosses the German border he was going to 'piss' in the Rhine River. True to his word, Patton did.

Yes re: echoplex

In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North win Oscar - Best Original Screenplay for “Patton”. In 1973, Coppola would win Oscar - Best Adapted Screenplay for “The Godfather”.

Only because it is..,

Sic transit gloria mundi

"Brave men die but once but cowards die many deaths." William Sheakspear

+Carol Baker amazing. btw, what were his granddaughters doing in Germany in 1970?

+teller121 Apparently, attending school. I was their dance teacher on base, during summer. One daughter was a "spit-in image" of Patton. An experience I'll never forget.

Patton's son made Major General (two star) himself.

As a free spirit myself, I was never understood the military regiment. On occasion my attitude almost had my husband written up. He sat me down and tried to explain the ramifications of my actions. I complied.

tenuous

Know how you feel, fellow geezer....

Should have given him 10 Academy Awards.

Lucky!

Goldsmith > Williams, hands down -- especially as a film *scorer*. No contest in my book.

Rock On !

Jeff Lebowski at lest it was a gun

and yet, that pistol he pulls from his waste band in North Africa, and fires up Germany bombers with, was in fact Patton's very own Mother of Pearl handled .32 automatic pistol. That little this was as authentic as hell too.

Andrew WinterIt wasn't a suicide, either. It was a war. A war cannot be a "suicide."

@@andrewwinter7843 Hmmmm. But some were targeted for their religion, eh? And the Chinese were quickly invaded, and few wound up fighting the Japanese. By the way, why do you feel compelled to look at WWII casualties through a diversity lens? Oh, yes. This statement of yours is utter nonsense: "White People slaughtered each other on an industrial scale in order to establish which form of totalitarian government was able to slaughter human beings in the most efficiently."

Olli Lehtonen "Kind of"?

@@nstix2009xitsn Sure, next to contemporaries. MacArthur eventually would make noise about nuking China, took his elderly mother nearly everywhere with him in theater in WWII, and brokered the deal to let a great number of Japanese war criminals off the hook, including the imperial family; LeMay would first burn Japanese cities to the ground and then lead SAC and the USAF punctuated by eccentric tests of base security and boasts that third-world proxies could be bombed into pre-industrial ruin (and make a truly bizarre political bid, eventually); Halsey was basically Patton at sea in terms of unmitigated aggression against enemy forces and off-color rants; and so on. Patton wasn't really all that far out relative to many of his US military contemporaries, outside of his reincarnation bit. The rest of them were more successfully kept from mouthing off *in front* of reporters most of the time, is all. (Notably, LeMay would get *way* worse about that over a couple of decades.) Half of that war, Eisenhower and Nimitz (to a lesser extent) spent inordinate time and effort just babysitting their crazier peers like responsible older brothers left to wrangle of a bunch of hellion kids.

Hey I actually PAID to buy a ticket to see what all the fuss was about way back then lol Yikes....everyone in the audience was crying.

TheAerovons That remark was a bit harsh, but I just didn't get the emotion others got when I watched it. It could of been that Ali MacGraw evoked no emotion for me as her skill at acting is nil IMO. I'll remove it as I seem to be one of the few to feel that way. Good day.

***** I'm not sure which remark you want to remove but you are correct, it was tough to figure out who was worse...Ali or Ryan. It was a rather cute and endearing (and short) little book (huge best seller). When I saw the movie at the theater it seemed pretty true to the book but ....yeah the casting was based on who was "hot" at the time. I will admit to feeling a lump in my throat when he crawled into the hospital bed with her. And literally the whole audience ...you could hear their stuffy noses lol. An exercise in self torture.....

Just like how Saving Private Ryan lost to Shakespeare in Love... >:(

Zer0dog I know Scott won best actor, which he refused to accept. That trophy sits in the armor museum at Ft KNos. But I didn't recall they won best picture.

I don't care if it takes a flying carpet! I can assure you, that due to my intimate relations with the Almighty, if you write a good prayer, We'll have good weather.

Then came "Patton's Miracle". (Really the event has a name in the history books. ) Not ONE DAY. One FULL WEEK of the best flying weather XIXth tactical air command could have asked for.

As a 30+ Year U S Army Veteran I carried that “”Weather”” prayer with me for Decades......And I read it to a number of my soldiers too

@@bclaverenz1 Very Cool

@@bclaverenz1 It was a great prayer!

FREAKING MAD RESPECT to your friend's older sister!

Now who in power in the United States is like that today? :)

Yeah, but at least Patton had a MIND.....

Yes, indeed!

Hans Zimmer is great, but Goldsmith and Williams are untouchable, along with Ennio Morricone.

Randy Newman.

Goldsmith was so much more thoughtful a film scorer than a Williams, though. We have fewer good film scorers than film composers (if you follow my thinking).

Poet? Patton was many thing, but a poet wasn't one. He was a hard-charging tanker, who didn't play politics, didn't pull punches, and wasn't afraid to be a glaring asshole when needed. He was an opinionated loudmouth when he wasn't getting chastised by Bradley, Ike or MacArthur all the way from PTO(Pacific Theater of Operations). He was nobody's idea of a poet.

Mike Candella It's quite well-known that Patton wrote poetry -- you can even buy his collected poems on Amazon: www.amazon.com/Poems-General-George-Patton-Jr/dp/0889461627. The original poster was correct.

To tell the butt ugly truth, we need military men like that now...

Well said but unfortunately he would drowned in leftist bullshit. We're screwed.

Like the rest of the Third army, I bet your uncle didn't like Patton either.

+Matt Brooks My Uncle Adam flew Patton to the tank battle locations after an engagement so Patton could look over the results first hand to evaluate both sides battle strategies good and bad. He saw a lot of death and destruction and to this day will not talk about it. His health is now failing him quickly but after the movie Patton was out I asked him if Patton was really like that, he said he was worse. The one and only story he told me, one morning after a big tank battle the day before they were in the ops shack planning his flight to the scene. My Uncle had an English Setter named Tarfu that always flew with him when he had no passenger. Patton arrived and his dog and my Uncles ran off to play (it had rained all night and the grass strip was all mud). When the flight plan was concluded Patton returned to his car to ride to the aircraft, whistled for his dog, the dog promptly jumped up in the car onto his lap covered in mud. Patton pulled both his pistols as he exited the car to shoot his dog. The driver (Patton's aid) had to grab the dog and run off to keep the severely agitated General from killing his dog. The man was as real as portrayed and more.

I would have loved to read Uncle Adams war memoirs, but I know that most servicemen couldn´t even talk about their war experiences, let alone write about them. I have read many memoirs and biographies, both allied and axis, including Pattons "War As I Knew It". We owe everything to those men of "The Greatest Generation".

+Matt Brooks I don't think you can really say the Allies "stopped" Patton in the Lorraine campaign. However, you can say that Ike didn't give Patton the highest priority to Patton's 3rd Army in terms of logistical support. Is that what you mean? Monty took the highest priority for the ill-advised Market-Garden campaign. It would have been better to give Patton highest priority, even though he was attacking into the center of the German Western Front!

Had Market Garden worked it would have knocked Germany out of the war by October of 1944. The problem wasn't Monty - it was ignoring the intelligence which showed an entire SS Panzer Division resting and refitting in the Arnhem area, then sending in 10,000 British Paras with light equipment, and no radios, that did for it. Still, the British Paras, cut off, no food, ammo, or heavy equipment held out for 9 days when they were supposed to hold out for 2 at most. 30 Corps. was stopped as the infantry hadn't arrived to support the last three miles to Arnhem - little beknowst to all allies, there were no German troops between them, and the Bridge. We could still have made it with a little more aggression. Thanks to 101st US Airborne for nighttime link up with British 1 Para and getting the 2000 survivors out.

I meant preventive maintenance on all of his armored equipment.

Christopher Taylor Patton never wrote an autobiography. There are some biographies of him out there but very little is known of his personal life. His family was asked but refused to talk about his personal life which is why the movie concentrates so heavily on his military career. It's still one of my favorite movies.

What Patton did write were his memoirs, later his wife and friends put them together into a book. The title of the book was 'War as I Knew It'.

If you would gratefully look up on your Dewey decimal system at your local library, you would probably find his book on the shelf entitled War As I Knew It. So please don't reply- simply look it up and read. You can read don't you?

+Christopher Taylor Though of course I have a very high regard for Patton as America's best general of WW2, Patton hardly fought in circumstances which would require the defensive! The Allies generally fought with overwhelming air, material, numerical and logistical superiority! Plus, by 1942 they were reading the German's mail! Put Patton in command of a smaller weaker force and even he would probably be forced to fight on the defensive as many a general has been forced to do! Clausewitz held that the defensive is the stronger form of warfare because it is what the weaker side resorts to, philosophically thinking. Of course there have been a few notable exceptions, such as Napoleon in 1814, R.E. Lee in 1862 (which led to Antietam) and 1863 (Gettysburg).

Actually, even Patton indicated that he was exactly in the right place at the right time. If he hadn't of been as arrogant as he was, the war probably would have lasted another few years.

lmao. One of the few inane lines in the film. Patton was severely wounded in World War I leading a lot of men is a desperate battle. His conquest of Morocco from the Viche French was no walk in the park either. That battle against the Afrika Corps after the disaster at Kasserine Pass was certainly a high point. But not his first rodeo by any standard.

General patton was a hero and made a significant contribution to the allied victory in world war 2 but the germans were already in full retreat after losing at el alamein to the british.

It was the British under Montgomery who broke the Afrika Korps at El Alamein. Look it up. It was a clean-up operation after that. Not saying the British did it with superior military prowess; the Germans were heavily outnumbered by that time.

John Wayne was no great man