My uncle was in the 90th Division. He was proud to have fought under Patton. He died in 2006 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. His last trip was in 1995 for the 50th anniversary of D-Day. The war defined his entire life.
such Rich History Mr. Patton i Respect very much to bad hes not alive today i vote for George S. Patton JR for president for sure he put this country back where it belonged.
My dad was with Patton in North Africa and loved him. In the movie Patton he walked down the hall and ran into a gi sleeping. The GI said sleeping sir and Patton answered your the only sob in this outfit that knows what he is doing. That was my dads friend Joe Pevarnik. My father and mother are buried in section 13 at Arlington National Cemetary. CWO 3 John H Leonard
My dads name was John Haley Leonard, he is berried in section 13 in Arlington National Cemetery with my mom Madelyn Leonard who was in the women’s Army Corps
He only told funny stories but he obviously carried a lot of emotional pain and suffered with alcoholism until his early sixties when he dealt with his demons. He was a different person until he died at sixty nine. He has been gone now thirty years.
My dad was a poor Irish Catholic kid from Brunswick Maine who joined the army for a warm place to sleep and three meals a day. He retired in 1960 at Fort Devens Massachusetts. He survived N Africa, Sicily, Anzio, and the Po Valley. He has some friends berried in the Anzio National Cemetery. We were stationed in Stuttgart in the mid 1950’s and we traveled when he was on leave around Europe..
Been there three times in my life loved Every time I went. First time was in 1991 it sure has changed over the years too bad he didn't show some of the German tanks they sent the King Tiger back to Germany it was really something to see in touch. Patton was truly a American Badass.😁🇺🇸
@Jose Ocasio I’ve read two biographies on Patton. Both think he may have had one affair, not several. He also did slap the soldiers, but Ike made him apologize. One soldier he slapped recounted his apology on tv and said he accepted Patton’s apology. He was the best fighting general we had in WWII.
Two years ago, i travelled from Brazil to the US with my wife and two children and decided to drive until the Patton Museum to visit it, after doing so 30 years ago. As a military enthusiast , i wanted to see the museum again and show it to my family. At the moment I drove to the gate, the security agent there asked where we were from and immediately guided us to the exit. No explanations given. The museum seems not t be so eager for visitors. I wrote to the museum telling this and never got a response.
I live 10 mins from the museum, I always love to go there and see this artifacts but now is not the same since the armor school moved to Ft. Benning, still is cool to stop by and see it.
Some changes made there since i was last there in 2004 as an M.P. stationed at Ft Knox. In 2004 the museum had a lot of tanks, all the way back to.WW1, and a Elvis section.
Thank you Genegal George Patton, for the sacrifice of you and your soldiers, for the freedom of our freedom! God bless world peace and fraternization among the peoples of our planet!
My wife and I toured the Patton museum when we went to Fort Knox for our son’s graduation ceremony from basic training. I remember seeing general Patton‘s caravan truck at the museum.
Thank you very much,great video almost if i was there in that beautiful museum with all those treasures,im from France and a great admirer of général Patton and it is very rare to see good videos like yours on youtube.well done. Regards
I bought an Eisenhower jacket & pants at a flea market for $40. The soldier had been a (Patton's) 3rd Army soldier with medals for rifle, pistol, machinegun, etc. What a story he might have told. No id in the clothing.
Been there,believe the Army is considering moving it to Fort Benning Ga.where the Armor School is now located. Been to the Infantry Museum there at Benning,impressive as can be.
Nevertheless, gen. G.Patton proved in N. Africa that history is written in the battlefield. One of the few who have beaten Rommel's forces. A profound history connoisseur, before the Sicilian campaign, he stressed the importance of Siracusa, by telling the example of the athenian gen. Alcibiades from 416 B.C.(Alcibiades plans were good, though athenians were defeated, due to his arrogance & enemy forces miscalculation).
@@montanamountainmen6104 I figured someone would come to my aid after posting that. I was absolutely sure Smith & Wesson ( and ivory grips! ). Thanks for the info. R I P K A brother George Smith Patton Jr. ✝️ Beta Chapter - V M I
They are in the early stages of doing just that, trying to find a place for it.Do not think they will put it in Harmony Church but more likely on main post. there is land near Infantry museum.
Of course just credit me. 🇺🇸🇺🇸sorry for the delay in replying. JCSullivan. 2nd AD Vet. Visited the American Military Cemetery inLuxembourg while TDY to USAEUR in63
I wish one of these big tank collectors would donate all their tanks to the Patton museum, when Fort Benning stole the armor center and then purloined all the tanks, the Patton family had to step in to prevent them taking the Patton items too. It was still a shameful episode, those tanks had been at Fort Knox since the early 50’s.
He didn't like Russia, and he didn't like the Nazi Germany, or Japan. He had a lot of fighting spirt and I wish he could've picked who to fight. But politics is politics and soldiers have to follow orders.
One of the most bad ass generals of the sec ww2 that was bold brave dash and just completely unorthodox in the way he did battle even in it himself no wonder people dont give him enough credit where it was facts as only the general knew those secrets himself
I am 72 years old and living in the Netherlands, after seeing many films and books about General Georg Patton (in 50 years), I have come to realize that if important figures had listened to him in 1945...by immediately with the last part of the German army to march on Moscow...my parents and I wouldn't be in the cold war for nearly 40 years. I firmly believe that they killed Patton at the end of 1945....Sir General Patton : RIP !!
Yo era (soy) admirador de Patton hasta que vi una foto de principios del s. 20 en la que aparece de joven al lado del gral Pershing y ¡Pancho Villa! (al cual persiguieron ellos y nunca pudieron agarrar) - con la complicidad del gob mex -.
Thank you, hope to make the trip/visit one day. Hopefully, no one brings their poorly behaved offspring while I am there. And to see the King Tiger Tank. Dozens of holes in my understanding of The Man The Myth The Legend. Guns (three, two revolvers Colt SA 45, S&W 357, M1911 and Walther PP), Uniforms (did he design his own uniform aka Herman Goering and with personal items and guns wouldn't this be considered out of uniform?). WOW, the medals.
The only uniform he designed was a jade green wool gabardine tanker's uniform with gold trim and a gold colored football helmet. He designed it and submitted it to the Army for approval, and they wisely disapproved it. (It was not very functional and was ugly as sin!) As for his Army uniforms, he didn't actually design his own but he modified some of them as he saw fit. Take the bomber jacket, for example - those diamond-shaped patched on the shoulders running down to the sleeve and the outside pocket on the right front were NOT standard on an issued coat like that. Patton had those modifications made himself. He was also the last American general to wear riding boots and breeches on a regular basis, as most general officers had abandoned them when the Army phased them out in the late '30s.
@@greathornedowl3644 Good question. As far as uniforms go, Patton and Bradley were polar opposites - Patton loved ornate uniforms and always dressed to the nines, while Bradley wore the uniform of a regular foot soldier. The only thing that set him apart from a regular dog face were the stars on his collar and helmet; other than that, he looked like just another infantryman. And yeah, Patton was a real hard-ass when it came to his soldiers being in proper uniform. He was VERY big on discipline, and knew that proper dress and appearance played a big part of it. The line from "Patton" that went "they don't look like soldiers, they don't act like soldiers, why should you expect them to fight like soldiers" pretty much summed up the way he felt. He was one of America's best general officers of the 20th century; his only flaw was he didn't know when to keep his mouth shut. And that's one of the things I admire most about him, his candor, honesty, and "I don't give a damn" attitude.
Is there in the Museum also the Truth of the Biscari's ( Sicily ) bloodbath made by the US Sergent West following the Patton 's order ? When more that 70 Italian POW ( pilots and soldiers not fascists ) have been killed by back shooting with the machine gun while walking to the jail ? Is there also the text of the trial where the judge was charging Him ?
Great museum with memories of a great worrier... who got er done! If you think freedom is free... just remember George S Patton and the men of the third US Army... for starters.
I visited the museum in ‘63 when I took basic. I visited it again recently and found it to be a shell of its former self. I inderstand that when Obama moved theArmor School to GA they took the guts of the Museum too.
Appreciated tons of salute to the greatest General Patton devoted faith and glorified life sharing with we the people of the Great America brightened the War History inspired so much indeed！!！
Sure hope the political correct police don't see this. Read the book he wrote with racist stereotypes. Had lowest loss rate verses Germanys of any General which to me is more important than any personal trait.
