It was not the best of Christmas seasons for Gen. George Patton in December of 1944. Yes, the general's Third Army was ...
On Dec. 9th, at the intersection of Kaefertalerstrasse and Dudenstrasse military members and onlookers gather to honor Gen.
After months of deception under Operation Fortitude, George S. Patton finally entered combat with the newly formed Third Army ...
SUMTER, SC (WIS) - Third Army Commanding General George S. Patton, Jr. continues to have his memory preserved at Patton Hall at Third Army Headquarters on Shaw Air Force Base. “He was a dynamic ...
Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth.
"Third Army was responsible for training all the forces throughout the Southeast, from Texas to the Carolinas," Clauss said. "But then the storm clouds were brewing in Europe." On New Years’ Eve 1943, ...
Christmas includes the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle fought by the United States. The battle was hell on earth. On Dec. 16, 1944, Nazi Germany launched an enormous ...
No other U.S. general has got himself in so much hot water or made so many legends in this war as flamboyant George S. Patton Jr. Last week, as he was banished to the command of a phantom Fifteenth ...
SHAW AIR FORCE BASE, S.C. – For one U.S. Army officer, military service is more than a career; it's a family tradition. U.S. Army Central (ARCENT) Fire Support Operations Officer, Lt. Col. Jim Bean, ...
Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr., who had scandalized his fellow officers and angered the U.S. public, whose promotion the U.S. Senate had righteously turned down, was last week again an admired ...