on august 1, they activate the famous third army under general george patton. he has two operational u.s. armies in play now -- the first and third -- and bradley moves up to be an army group commander in control of all the u.s. ground forces, and patent's third army has a reputation for heavy.ery armored he likes mobile, cavalry-type maneuver and mechanized warfare. this is precisely what they'll be doing on the western side of the map. basically/--, move quickly, hit the germans hard -- basically dash, move quickly, hit the germans hard. this is what patent's army excels at. -- patent -- this is what patton's army excels at. german army will find itself in a very difficult, very mortal position in this stage. from a kind of conceptual viewpoint -- history is not just , and evenrizing military history is not about that, either. there is a larger analysis or purpose to it. what is interesting to me as an american historian is that this u.s. army you now see in late july, august 1944 after what is generally known as the breakout from normandy like you see portra

this piece right here is the tank that george patton fell in love with. of course general patton would go onto become the grandfather of american armor. you can see some of the aspects on this tank are very similar to tanks we have nowadays. you have a tour it that can turret that can rotate 360 degrees. the one thing i'll point out, or a few things i'll point out, first the treads themselves are very aggressive, they're far forward of the tank ands you can see how the treads are designed to grip. the idea being that if this tank had to go down into an enemy trench line, it would be able to pull itself up the other side. further more, in the back you can see a scoop, that scoop was designed to steady the tank so that it could go over longer and longer trench lines, or rather wider and wider trench lines. this front load wheel is made of road wheel is made of wood. the reason for that is at the time the steel that could have been idea for that front road wheel, there would be too much friction and it would heat up too fast, become too brittle, and the vehi

george patton was an important army commander in europe in world war ii. an extremely tough guy. he was called blood and guts. his soldiers would say his guts, our blood. patton, during the campaign for sicily, was visiting a field hospital. there were two casualties there suffering from shell shock. he thought there wasn't any such thing. anyone who claimed he was suffering from fatigue was simply a coward. he actually slapped these soldiers in the face. a number of correspondents all that happen. others heard about it. ernie was one of them. he didn't write about it. what they did was go to general eisenhower, the commander of the whole theater at the time, patton's superior, and say this had happened, and demanded that eisenhower forced them to apologize to the soldiers. it was only written after it occurred. that is a good example of the kind of thing that other correspondents would not write. he could not abide general patton and thought he was a blowhard who was cruel to his men. but he wasn't going to write that story. no, there was never a complaint about ernie. you have t

unit was stationed or trained at fort clark and many famous soldiers including john pershing and george patton. names like george armstrong ster or phil sheridan near bracketville nearly lost his camancheswar party of i'd id if i owned texas, rent it out. the last horse-mounted unit in the army, by 1944 the second cavalry had been members of the committee andized. fort clark was targeted for closure. before it closed, it was used as a german prisoner of war camp. because of the families of the soldiers at the fort and the african-american veterans and those who had settled in bracketville, the u.s. government constructed a high school for black students. the school opened in 1944 so the children of these veterans could be educated. at that time, texas was still racially segregated. this high school is believed to be the only federally built of its kind between san antonio and el paso. after fort clark closed in 1946. it was converted to a resort or retirement center and the historic district is lasted on the national registry of historying places. the village is the set for john wayne's movie

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