Patton's Top 3 Legendary Tactical Moves

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• MA

  @MAP_LPC · 1 month ago

  I'm proud that my grandpa served under Patton. He was a Combat Engineer.

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• DA

  @davidhart4682 · 1 month ago

  Rommel, you magnificent bastard, I read your book.

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• US

  @usgator · 1 month ago (edited)

  My Grandfather was a BAR gunner in Patton’s Third Army. He fought all through France and up to the surrender. Sixty years later, I would also serve in the Third US Army. I have my Combat Infantryman’s Badge (CIB), from Third Army, mounted in a plaque with my Grandfather’s CIB.

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• PE

  @petwir · 1 month ago (edited)

  Many losses on both sides in the battle of the bulge. My family lost one of my great uncles who was 110th infantry and in the sector that was ordered to hold to the last man. They were credited with buying enough time for Bastogne to harden their defenses. He is buried in the US cemetery in Belgium. Many hero’s never get to tell their tales.

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• BR

  @Brovillion559 · 1 month ago

  My grandpa was 17 when he became a medic and sent to patrons army. After I came home from Iraq he started telling me his “story”. He didn’t have a single kind word for the general staff. He said they were expendable for a greater cause. He wasn’t wrong. However he did say Patton was very hard and very good, out of all the general staff Patton was the only officer that physically hurt when his men died. My grandfather reported the dead directly to Patton, (I wasn’t there, that’s what he said) he said the British had no problem sacrificing American troops as long as the British one it didn’t matter how many Americans died. And Patton knew it. And wouldn’t complain and wouldn’t comply.

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• VI

  @vincerusselmorales3065 · 2 weeks ago

  Patton had the right call to always monitor the movements of his enemies ahead of time and not just believing in assumptions or expectations.

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• TI

  @timehaley · 1 month ago

  Patton's most famous quote. “A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”, but my most favorite and I'm sure many of you out there agree is, “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”  Those are words repeated at every military academy in the US.

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• CH

  @charliealegria180 · 1 month ago (edited)

  Never forget the men at St. Vith that were purposely sacrificed too allow time to fortify themselves in Bastogne.  No one would have ever heard of the bastards of bastogne if not for the Valiant of  St. Vith.

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• RE

  @Redhots0907 · 1 month ago

  My great uncle Claude Haswell was one of General Patton’s signal officers. Colonel Claude E. Haswell. He and Patton went to West Point at the same time.

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• GR

  @gregoryschmitz2131 · 1 month ago

  Pattons real brilliance was in the staff officers he chose and  organization he built.     When he sent a plan,  it was excellently  supported and managed by that staff.    It all flowed from there.   Bad staff,  no execution,  the best plan fails.    That includes the breakout where the question was asked,  why are we not heading for the Seine?    Battle of the Bulge when they stopped,  turned 90 deg and moved (100 miles or so).    The organization to do that without chaos,  that is stunning.

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• HE

  @Henreys · 1 month ago

  Excellent trilogy structure. The El Guettar reverse-slope artillery trap deserves more recognition, it proved Patton could out-think, not just out-drive, his opponents. The Bastogne staff work story is underrated compared to the dramatic relief itself.

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• JO

  @JohnSimpson-r5d · 1 month ago

  Our Greatest Generation. Well earned.

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