He was assigned a key role in Operation Fortitude, the Allies' military deception campaign for Operation Overlord. There he was embroiled in controversy after he slapped two shell-shocked soldiers, and was temporarily removed from battlefield command. Seventh Army during the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he was the first Allied commander to reach Messina. troops into the Mediterranean theater with an invasion of Casablanca during Operation Torch in 1942, and soon established himself as an effective commander by rapidly rehabilitating the demoralized II Corps. At the United States' entry into World War II, he commanded the 2nd Armored Division. In the interwar period, Patton became a central figure in the development of the army's armored warfare doctrine, serving in numerous staff positions throughout the country. tank school in France, then led tanks into combat and was wounded near the end of the war. He fought in World War I as part of the new United States Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces: he commanded the U.S. Patton entered combat during the Pancho Villa Expedition of 1916, the United States' first military action using motor vehicles.

He competed in the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden.

He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the 'Patton Saber'. (Novem– December 21, 1945) was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.īorn in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point.

Early ww2 tank battles