Such miscues forced General Eisenhower to reprimand the outspoken and colorful general. Patton's expertise in tank command helped frustrate the December 1944 German counteroffensive in the ...

It was September 1945, the war was over, but General George S. Patton Jr., was in trouble once again. His great reputation as a military leader had been assured by ...

Patton saluted the men before going in to meet with Eisenhower. When a water shortage hit war-ravaged Rheims, France, Army GIs stationed there, including Maczulak, had one other option with which ...

Patton was to call Gay with a telephone code, which would instruct him to immediately activate his troops. "George," said Eisenhower, unknowingly instructing Patton, "I want you to command this ...

(Butcher reports that among the personnel of Patton’s Third Army Eisenhower was described as “the best general the British have.”) Ingersoll considers that from the very start Eisenhower was ...

MacArthur, George S. Patton, Dwight D. Eisenhower and J. Edgar Hoover. The Bonus Army would also affect the presidential election of 1932, when the patrician governor of New York, Franklin Delano ...

Future president Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower was appointed commanding general of the European Theater on this day in history, June 25, 1942. Born in Texas and raised in Kansas, Eisenhower began his ...