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 ...

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 ...

Archive biographies of the four greatest American generals of World War II Patton Known by his troops ... old soldiers never die they just fade away Eisenhower A graduate of West Point He was ...