George S Patton

George S Patton (1885 - 1945), full George Smith Patton Jr, 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.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

- letter to his son, June 6, 1944

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