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George Smith Patton, one of the great American generals of World War II, is born in San Gabriel, California. Patton came from a family with a long history of military service. After studying at West Point, he served as a tank officer in World War I, and his experience in that conflict, along with his extensive military study, led him to become an advocate of the crucial importance of the tank in future warfare. After the American entrance into World War II, Patton was placed in command of an important U.S. tank division and played a key role in the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942. In 1943, Patton led the U.S. Seventh Army in its assault on Sicily and won fame for out-commanding Montgomery during the so-called Race to Messina. Although Patton was one of the ablest American commanders in World War II, he was also one of the most controversial. He presented himself as a modern-day cavalryman, designed his own uniform, and was known to make eccentric claims that he was a direct descendant of great military leaders of the past through reincarnation. During the Sicilian campaign, Patton generated considerable controversy when he accused a hospitalized U.S. soldier suffering from battle fatigue of cowardice and then personally struck him across the face. The famously profane general was forced to issue a public apology and was reprimanded by General Dwight Eisenhower. However, when it was time for the invasion of Western Europe, Eisenhower could find no general as formidable as Patton, and the general was again granted an important military post. In 1944, Patton commanded the U.S. Third Army in the invasion of France, and in December of that year his expertise in military movement and tank warfare helped crush the German counteroffensive in the Ardennes. During one of his many successful campaigns, General Patton was said to have declared, “Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.” On December 21, 1945, he died in a hospital in Germany from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Mannheim.
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O Panzer III causou um impacto bem pequeno comparado a outros tanques alemães na Segunda Guerra devido o rápido aprimoramento de blindagem e armamento em tanques aliados. A sua própria proteção e sua capacidade de destruir tanques inimigos o deixou obsoleto em meados de 1941. O maior sucesso dos Panzer IIIs foi o Sturmgeschütz III,
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Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower standing in front of statue of George S. Patton in Boston.
Answer (1 of 94): Some really memorable pictures of World War II. Some of these pictures maybe a bit too graphic and disturbing. The marines raising the US flag on Iwo Jima, one of the most iconic ones ever. Polish resistance fighters during the short lived Warsaw Uprising against the Nazis....
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If you were anything like me as a kid, pandas, you probably didn’t pay very close attention in history class. Memorizing dates and names seemed like such a bore, and my teachers could not manage to get the importance of the subject through my thick skull. But now that I’m an adult, I am fascinated by learning more about the world’s past, so I’m doing everything I can to catch up on those lessons I snoozed through.
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George Smith Patton Jr was born on the 11th November, 1885, into a family with a long record of military service. He saw action in the Pancho Villa
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In this text, written in 1919, Patton lays out the standards of those who aspire to be an officer and a gentleman.
