SHREVEPORT, La. - When you talk about the World War II, you must talk about the generals. The best known, of course, is Dwight Eisenhower, but the most popular general was General George Patton.

The March 1945 crossings, by Patton and Montgomery's forces, gave the Allies beachheads with which to invade Germany.

Blinded in his right eye in a 1922 polo match at Ft. Bliss, Lt. Gen Hobart R. Gay (ret) bluffed Army physicians for 33 years to become one of America’s outstanding World War II and Korean ...

Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but unremarkable military career. By 1943, however, he found himself serving as Supreme Commander ...

Silence Patton asks the question: Why was General Patton silenced during his service in World War II? Prevented from receiving needed supplies that would have ended the war nine months earlier ...

Benjamin W. Patton stands with his father, Gen. George Patton in 1978 at the North Africa American Cemetery in Tunisia. His grandfather, Gen. George S. Patton commanded the U.S. II Corps in 1943.

Considered one of the most successful combat generals in US history, General George S. Patton died on December 21, 1945, twelve days after breaking his neck in a car accident near Mannheim, Germany.