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.

Patton was not an ideal commander. But his fighting spirit was second to none—and continues to inspire military leaders in the United States today. The year 1945 is, in many respects, the year that ...

General George Patton was the most feared American commander for the German generals on the Western Front. The Wehrmacht’s officers described Patton as America’s Rommel. The volume under review is the ...

MANNHEIM, Germany — Eighty years after a traffic accident in postwar Germany fatally injured Gen. George S. Patton Jr., a small group including his granddaughter gathered Tuesday at the crash site to ...

Nearly 70 years ago, on Aug. 1, 1944, then-Lt. Gen. George S. Patton took command of the American Third Army in France. For the next 30 days they rolled straight toward the German border. Patton ...

MANNHEIM, Germany – Eighty years after his death, the legacy of Gen. George S. Patton Jr. endures, yet his life was cut short not by a final, glorious battle, but by a mundane traffic accident on a ...

Peter Tonguette’s commendable essay on “Patton,” the classic 1970 war film by Franklin J. Schaffner, was most appropriate for Memorial Day weekend (“An Epic of Potent Patriotism,” Masterpiece, May 24) ...

It was not the best of Christmas seasons for Gen. George Patton in December of 1944. Yes, the general's Third Army was marching through Europe toward Berlin. Yes, the Nazis were less than a year away ...