Patton Facts for Kids

Patton can mean:

George S. Patton, a United States Army general during World War II
Patton, a 1970 motion picture about General Patton
The Patton tank, named after the general
George Patton IV, son of the general
Charlie Patton, a US blues musician
Mike Patton, an American musician who used the title 'General Patton' for a one-off collaboration with The X-Ecutioners

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Anne Wilson "Nita" Patton, Patton's sister. She was engaged to John J. Pershing in 1917–18.
Patton at the Virginia Military Institute
Patton (right) fencing in the modern pentathlon of the 1912 Summer Olympics
Patton on his steeplechase horse, Wooltex, in 1914
The durability of the 1915 Dodge Brothers Model 30-35 touring car won renown for the new automaker following its use in the 1916 Pancho Villa Expedition
Patton at Bourg in France in 1918 with a Renault FT light tank
Patton as a temporary colonel at Camp Meade, Maryland, 1919
Writer Hal Block (far left), comedian Bob Hope (second from left), writer/actor Barney Dean, singer Frances Langford and musician Tony Romano meet George Patton in Sicily during World War II
Patton (left) with Rear Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt aboard USS Augusta, off the coast of North Africa, November 1942
From left to right, Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Major General Terry Allen and Lieutenant General George S. Patton, March 1943.
Lieutenant Colonel Lyle W. Bernard, commanding the 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, in conversation with Lieutenant General George S. Patton, commanding the U.S. Seventh Army, near Brolo, Sicily, July 1943.
General Sir Bernard Montgomery shakes hands with Lieutenant General George S. Patton at an airport at Palermo, Sicily, July 28, 1943. Major General Geoffrey Keyes, deputy commander of Patton's Seventh Army, is stood to the far left of the picture.
Patton talks to wounded soldiers preparing for evacuation
Patton pins a Silver Star Medal on Private Ernest A. Jenkins, a soldier under his command, October 1944
From left to right: Major General Leven C. Allen, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Major General John S. Wood, Lieutenant General George S. Patton and Major General Manton S. Eddy being shown a map by one of Patton’s armored battalion commanders during a tour near Metz, France, November 1944.
From left to right, Bradley, Eisenhower and Patton in Bastogne, Belgium, 1945
Patton during a welcome home parade in Los Angeles, June 9, 1945
Patton's grave in Luxembourg City
General Patton U.S. commemorative stamp, issued in 1953
A replica of Patton's World War II command vehicle on display at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Houston, Texas
Patton's well-known custom ivory-handled revolver
Koch receives congratulations from Patton in May 1942
A statue of Patton at the US Military Academy at West Point
Patton's boots at a museum in Malmedy

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