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 ...

In March 1945 the Rhine River was the last great barrier to the heart of Germany. General George S. Patton of US 3rd Army and Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery were both desperate to cross the ...

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Under his command the Third Army swept into Germany and into Czechoslovakia. In April 1945, Patton was promoted to temporary four-star general but was removed by Eisenhower from his leadership of ...

On the evening of March 24, 1945, Soldiers from the 87th Infantry Division of General George S. Patton's Third U.S. Army began ...

Silence Patton asks the question ... Why was he fired as General of the Third Army and relegated to a governorship of post-war Bavaria? Who were his enemies? Was he a threat to Eisenhower ...

Clyde Stovall is one of them. Stovall was a young sergeant major in Patton's 3rd Army. His job was to be the general's eyes. It was the winter of 1944 and Patton's 3rd Army is racing across Europe.

George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced ... German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had already ordered a general retreat to the Rhine. The Allies on the city’s ...