It remains one of the most remarkable turns in battle in recorded history, and the press back home gave credit to “Patton’s ...

Patton instructed his men: “Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray with others. Pray by night and pray by day.” He believed the Third Army’s nearly 500 chaplains ...

Metcalf supervised 400 chaplains in Patton’s Third Army. The four-star general’s concern focused on American GIs who were shuddering under a brutal attack the Nazis had launched through the ...

He served as a combat soldier and fought in the Battle of the Bulge as part of General George Patton’s 3rd Army, according to ... had dinner and gave a speech to Anaheim business and political ...

At a crisis meeting held in Verdun on December 19, Eisenhower directed that his friend, Omar Bradley, headquartered in Luxembourg, should command George S Patton’s Third US Army and other ...

George Patton’s personal chaplain during World War II ... He also conferred with the Third Army’s head chaplain, James O’Neill, an American Catholic priest who “picked phrases from ...

Eisenhower directed Patton and his Third Army to wheel around 90 degrees and ... slapping a soldier and verbally attacking the Russians in a speech in England. Both events nearly cost him his ...

In that history, whoever writes it, the roaring campaigns of George Smith Patton and his tanks across France and Germany must make an honorable chapter. Along that route, among Third Army dead at ...

It was the third tank (after M46 & M47) to be officially named after General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army during World War II and one of the earliest American advocates for the ...