Patton saluted the men before going in to meet with Eisenhower. When a water shortage hit war-ravaged Rheims, France, Army GIs stationed there, including Maczulak, had one other option with which ...

Such miscues forced General Eisenhower to reprimand the outspoken and colorful general. Patton's expertise in tank command helped frustrate the December 1944 German counteroffensive in the ...

Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower tapped Patton's Third Army to relieve the surrounded 101st Airborne. Patton's forces had been 85 miles to the south, with a portion of them ...

"D-Day tomorrow. Everybody quite excited. We land at Arromanches, clear three villages and Bayeux." Discovered in a dusty upstairs room of a pub, the matter-of-fact entry for 5 June 1944 written ...

Among Dwight D. Eisenhower’s associates at Supreme Allied Headquarters, fear was visible with alarm. The tide of the battle did not clearly turn until Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army broke ...

Patton in World War II and Matthew B ... There he held a series of posts that made him second in importance only to Eisenhower among American officers in the theater. This proved a mixed blessing ...

In the early days of the battle, Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower directed Patton and his Third Army to wheel around 90 degrees and head north toward the embattled region. Later the ...