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Patton’s breakout west: The Brittany campaign that tested the Third Army
On August 1, 1944, General George S. Patton unleashed the U.S. Third Army in a rapid drive into Brittany. The objective was ...
Army Chief of Staff and Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur watched a brigade of steel-helmeted soldiers precisely align themselves in a straight four-column phalanx, bayonets affixed to rifles. He nodded his ...
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The U.S. Army’s M48 Patton Tank Had Just 1 Mission
Key Points and Summary on the M48 Patton Tank - Developed to counter the Soviet armored threat in the 1950s, the M48 Patton became a crucial American main battle tank during the Cold War. -The mission ...
Nearly 70 years ago, on Aug. 1, 1944, then-Lt. Gen. George S. Patton took command of the American Third Army in France. For the next 30 days they rolled straight toward the German border. Patton ...
In February 1945, a United Press International reporter interviewed an Oklahoma sniper credited with killing over 130 Germans. Sergeant Horace West told the correspondent his rifle was named after his ...
General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...
Eight decades after American soldiers sailed across the Rhine under gunfire to break through German defenses, U.S. soldiers gathered again at the banks of the river, joining veterans and German ...
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