Patton

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George S. Patton, Jr. was born in 1885 in San Gabriel, California, to the family of Ruth Patton, and George S. Patton, Sr. As George was growing up, he referred to himself as “Georgie S. Patton, Lieutenant General.” He did become a Lieutenant General on March 12, 1943. As George grew up more, his father gave him a real sword. He would practice every day on cactuses and the tall grasses near his home. When George turned 18, he enlisted in the army and went to college at the West Point Academy in New York. After five years of college, he finally was in the army as a Second Lieutenant. He was a soldier. When George trained in Mexico, some raiders were attacking a town near where they were training. That team was asked to help make them go away. So their commander chose a handful of his best men to come help him. George was very eager to go. He did get to go, but only as a helper. That meant he would run errands for the squad. But George wasn’t going to miss the fight. When George went to get some corn, he thought some raiders were in the house. He got some men to come around with cars to circle the house. Soon, three men on horseback came charging out of the house. In minutes, all three horse riders were dead, two being raiders. That was the first assault in army history that someone used cars. The only problem was he forgot the corn. Soon the military started a tank school. George asked if he could work there. He said,” I did start the use of cars in battle.” Either that got him in, or he was the only one who wanted to, because he was the named officer of the school. Soon after he was put in charge of the school, he was asked to go fight Rommel in North Africa. When Patton was in NA, he read the book on tank warfare, written by Rommel himself. When he used his tanks to take on Rommel, he knew every thing that was up his sleeve. He drove them out in ten days When George was in Europe, he landed on Normandy Beach. He was going to help the Allied Forces raging through Germany. But the beach stalled Patton for some time. The Axis, (the Nazi, the Japanese, and the Italian) kept the tanks down. Soon Patton took down the guns and smashed through enemy lines. George then swept through Germany, with his massive tank army crushing everything in its way. He was the savior of the soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge. When they were asked who saved them, they would say, “Patton, of course.” Patton always fought bravely, but fate works in strange ways. Two days after the war ended, George and some other soldiers were riding in a car, when it hit a curb and crashed. Everyone was okay but George, who got a broken neck. He died on December 21, 1945, soon after, leaving his wife, and kids George, Robert, Benjamin, Margret, and Helen. __ Bibliography __ __ Infobits - infopalat __. 19 May 2009 . 19 May 2009 . __ Online Education __. 19 May 2009 . Sutcliffe, Jane. __George S. Patton Jr.__ Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 2005.