Dwight D. Eisenhower. The incident, the officer revealed, occurred last August, when Patton, picturesque American 7th Army commander, called the soldier "yellow bellied" and berated him as he wept.
The U.S. Army and the U.S. people talked things over last week, finally decided they had better trust each other. ”The Patton affair” (see p. 69) became a test for the democratic maturity of both.
Within days, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. had turned his Third U.S. Army to the north and was counterattacking against the German flank. But the story of the Battle of the Bulge is above all the ...
The M48 Patton tank, which is owned by US Army Central (USARCENT), was transported from Shaw Air Force Base to Fort Knox's Logistic Readiness Center for a preservation project in late September.