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Patton is the only commanding general to pull out of a winter attack, pivot 90 degrees and move 100 miles to begin a new winter attack. He had his flaws but no other WWII American general could have done what Patton did to relieve Bastogne. If you ever get a chance, visit the American cemetery in Luxembourg City where he is buried.
My father served in Patton's 3 rd Army , 654th tank destroyer battalion, company b headquarters. France ,Belgium, and Luxembourg. That generation was bad ass . Thank you to all that served!
I know this is a channel about guns, but Patton was not a "tank commander" during his days of fame- he was an army commander, a three-star general. He commanded infantry, tanks, intelligence, logistics, etc.
Technically, Patton's .357 magnum wasn't a Model 27. It was a Registered Magnum, made _long_ before Smith & Wesson started using the designation Model 27. Postwar, S&W made basically the same model, referred to today as Pre-Model 27s by most people (I have one with a 3 1/2" barrel), and they were just referred to as Smith & Wesson .357 magnums until 1957, when S&W started stamping model numbers on the frame underneath the crane.
It also doesn't have ivory grips, they're plastic and it's amazing that nobody including the museum curator knows that. There's an interview right here on RU-vid of Patton's driver just a few years back, he was with him for quite some time and tells the story of how Patton told his staff that he wanted ivory grips for that revolver and gave someone the task of going into town somewhere and getting them, his driver took the guy into town and they couldn't find ivory grips for it anywhere probably due to the war and shipping lanes among other things being shut down cutting off the supply of ivory from Africa, not wanting to return without them and suffer Patton's wrath for failing they found a place that had plastic grips and put them on, he laughed and said Patton never knew the difference and apparently nobody else ever has either.
@@dukecraig2402I don't know how you wouldn't know once you carve in notches. I'm drawn to conclude he thumped the handles and found that plastic makes a duller sound than the hard enamel of ivory tusks. Which would be the only reason why he would mutilate part of his equipment.
@@mtsflorida Well without someone coming up with some proof that he knew they were plastic there's only supposition that he knew they were, I mean that's a pretty big suppose right there, he'd have had to have something with actual ivory grips to tap on one and then the other to draw that conclusion, despite the image of him and ivory grips I don't think he was some kind of an authority on them that had his pistol bumped against something he'd have taken pause and said "That didn't sound like an ivory grip should when one bumps into something". Also, since his driver was of WW2 vintage that means Patton couldn't have possibly put notches in them as the incidents occurred, only well afterwards after the ivory grips were installed, and once again doubting that he was an actual authority on ivory grips I don't see how cutting little notches in it would be something he'd use to validate or disprove them being ivory, I'd think that a little shard of white plastic would look like a little shard of ivory. You can hear his driver talking about it in an interview right here on RU-vid, I believe it's that one channel called Veterans Center or something close to that, it's a great interview and the guy tells some really good stories about Patton in it.
There was an interview of one of his drivers in Germany who said he was the one to get the grips done for one of his pistols, but he said they were faux ivory and actually made of plastic.
Well done. Patton sometimes carried the 3 1/2 " barrelled .357 on his right I believe and the Colt Peacemaker with the 4.75" barrell on the other. Patton was quite a gunman. While at Ft. Benning I saw an office constructed where he used a bust of Hitler turned upside down as a trash can. The germans were right when they said peacetime would bring his end. Regrettably a car accident in which he fractured his neck while touring a historcal area he was describing to a dignitary when the driver also looked that caused the accident. My dad who was an army officer after WWII told me the events, also taught history.
@@djquinn11 Fredrick Ayer was able to dredge the water way and got a bunch of land. The Ayer family still has a logging business up north. He hired John Munro longyear to "land look" for him, timber cruiser. Longyear has lots of logging and real estate business still up here. They are tied to the league of nations, now the UN. Among the other federal agencies. The Jekyll island was closed down, where did they go? Rockefeller I think it was gave longyear a big check. The club members owned everything to do with mining up here, aside from kenacot eagle mine the one they tried to shut down haha
Only thing I think about is Patton was known for being super strict on soldiers having everything on them regulation but didn’t carry a regulation side arm.
That museum is not home to the Patton staff car. It's with Jimmy Hoffas body wherever ike chose to dump it. What you have there. Is a replica. With a filed off VIN number.
i wonder if he ever fired his weapons in combat in ww2....killed enemy soldiers? Im a painter and we painted his house on Ft. Riley (number 5B) back in 07. was a really cool house, huge...still has his original furniture.
Two donkeys. In Sicily, Patton shot two donkeys on a bridge that were in his way. When the poor peasant farmer complained, the rich soldier boy proceeded to beat the man with a cane. Patton was an awful excuse for a human being.
The Colt Peacemaker did not win the west. That was done with single shot muzzle loaders and breech loaders. The Peacemaker is the gun. that tamed” the west.
That .357 isnt in good shape ive seen others that old in way better shape but saying thay im sure he carried the hell out of that in alot of different conditions
George C. Scott’s portrayal of General Patton is overblown, and fails to depict the nature of Patton’s speaking voice and style. Omar Bradley did not like Patton, and Francis Ford Coppola drew heavily on Bradley’s memoirs when doing the movie’s screenplay.
Of course, you're a Holocaust denier. Only people who believe that the Holocaust was fake think we fought the wrong people. That's how you meant it. He wasn't a fan of the Russians, either. That's what he was saying. Not fuck the Jews.
