From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 21 2005 - 05:28:28 PST
There appears to be talk of them rotating out museum
pieces though to Benning to use in training the troops
on the history of armored warfare.
Rick
--- ihc53 <ihc53@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Rest in Peace General....
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> ***MV Content****
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> The Army has decided to keep the Patton Museum at
> Ft. Knox.
> Although the Armour Center is moving to Ft. Benning,
> the
> Patton Musuem will not be going with them!
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> Everette wrote:
> >
> > December 21
> >
> > 1945 "Old Blood and Guts" dies
> >
> > On this day, General George S. Patton, commander
> of the U.S. 3rd Army,
> > dies from injuries suffered not in battle but in a
> freak car accident.
> > He was 60 years old.
> > Descended from a long line of military men, Patton
> graduated from the
> > West Point Military Academy in 1909. He
> represented the United States in
> > the 1912 Olympics-as the first American
> participant in the pentathlon.
> > He did not win a medal. He went on to serve in the
> Tank Corps during
> > World War I, an experience that made Patton a
> dedicated proponent of
> > tank warfare.
> > During World War II, as commander of the U.S. 7th
> Army, he captured
> > Palermo, Sicily, in 1943 by just such means.
> Patton's audacity became
> > evident in 1944, when, during the Battle of the
> Bulge, he employed an
> > unorthodox strategy that involved a 90-degree
> pivoting move of his 3rd
> > Army forces, enabling him to speedily relieve the
> besieged Allied
> > defenders of Bastogne, Belgium.
> > Along the way, Patton's mouth proved as dangerous
> to his career as the
> > Germans. When he berated and slapped a
> hospitalized soldier diagnosed
> > with "shell shock," but whom Patton accused of
> "malingering," the press
> > turned on him, and pressure was applied to cut him
> down to size. He
> > might have found himself enjoying early retirement
> had not General
> > Dwight Eisenhower and General George Marshall
> intervened on his behalf.
> > After several months of inactivity, he was put
> back to work.
> > And work he did-at the Battle of the Bulge, during
> which Patton once
> > again succeeded in employing a complex and
> quick-witted strategy,
> > turning the German thrust into Bastogne into an
> Allied counterthrust,
> > driving the Germans east across the Rhine. In
> March 1945, Patton's army
> > swept through southern Germany into
> Czechoslovakia-which he was stopped
> > from capturing by the Allies, out of respect for
> the Soviets' postwar
> > political plans for Eastern Europe.
> > Patton had many gifts, but diplomacy was not one
> of them. After the war,
> > while stationed in Germany, he criticized the
> process of denazification,
> > the removal of former Nazi Party members from
> positions of political,
> > administrative, and governmental power. His
> impolitic press statements
> > questioning the policy caused Eisenhower to remove
> him as U.S. commander
> > in Bavaria. He was transferred to the 15th Army
> Group, but in December
> > of 1945 he suffered a broken neck in a car
> accident and died less than
> > two weeks later.
> >
> > Everette
> >
> > In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible
> has never failed to
> > give me light and strength.
> >
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