As the commander of the “First United States Army Group (FUSAG),” Patton played a key part in Operation FORTITUDE, designed to convince the Germans that the real Allied landing would occur at the Pas-de-Calais. Denied command of the American landing force, Patton still played a critical role in the invasion. George C. Marshall saved his career.ĭue to both this incident and the preparations for the invasion of France, Patton did not participate in the fighting on mainland Italy, but returned to England. When the story made the press, there were calls for Patton’s relief, and only the intervention of Gen. Patton was briefly sidelined after two incidents in Sicily where he slapped and verbally abused soldiers suffering from battle fatigue during visits to field hospital. In Sicily, Patton led the Seventh Army, winning the “race to Messina” as his aggressiveness (and some say hunger for notoriety) outpaced the British Eighth Army. One of the few allied generals with combat experience leading tanks in World War I, Patton led the Western Task Force during the TORCH landings and then II Corps through the remainder of the North Africa campaign. His success on the battlefield was occasionally interspersed with missteps in the press and in relations with our British allies. Patton was one of the great figures of World War II, renowned for his style, aggressiveness, and brash quotes. died in Germany of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
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