General George S. Patton, one of the most revered, skilled and yet controversial figures in American military lore, reached the coastal city of Messina and secured the liberation of Sicily on this day ...

This video tells the dramatic story of General George S. Patton’s rapid 48-hour pivot during World War II, launched to relieve the besieged town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge. As German ...

Patton was not an ideal commander. But his fighting spirit was second to none—and continues to inspire military leaders in the United States today. The year 1945 is, in many respects, the year that ...

Like any good soldier, Maj. Gen. George Patton wrote regularly to his wife, though perhaps not as tenderly as she would have liked: “I wish I could get out and kill someone,” he told her in the winter ...

General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...

Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. was a hard-charging leader that continues to inspire students of military tactics and history. The West Point graduate distinguished himself as a tank commander in World War ...

Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, the son and namesake of the World War II armored commander and a veteran of combat in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, died Sunday at his home in Hamilton, Mass. He was 80. Gen ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — On Sept. 26, 1918, Lt. Col. George S. Patton Jr. was in a bunker near Cheppy, France during World War I; alongside of him was his handpicked orderly, Pvt. Joe Angelo. Patton decided ...

Benjamin W. Patton stands with his father, Gen. George Patton in 1978 at the North Africa American Cemetery in Tunisia. His grandfather, Gen. George S. Patton commanded the U.S. II Corps in 1943.