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  • Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
  • Patton speech in Los Angeles 1945 and death. Narrated by Ronald Reagan

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  • @JavierChiappa
    @JavierChiappa 9 лет назад +4071

    "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
    - George S. Patton

    • @witri9
      @witri9 5 лет назад +34

      Javier Chiappa great quote.

    • @jetflyer62901
      @jetflyer62901 5 лет назад +28

      Hereward the Wake You call him a coward, yet, if he had gotten his way, the Western Allies would have attacked the Soviet Union afterwards. The country with all the manpower, and, not to mention the Russian winter.

    • @jetflyer62901
      @jetflyer62901 5 лет назад +38

      Hereward the Wake So let me get this straight. I gave you a pretty good argument, and instead of responding with an argument, you just resort to an insult. Pathetic. Thanks for indirectly letting me know who the real idiot probably is here.

    • @jaybyrd9156
      @jaybyrd9156 5 лет назад +16

      All these people who are probably the same couple of people on different accounts talkin all that Nazi trash on this comment section should listen to the satisfaction in George Patton's voice when he speaks of leaving their little coward towns in rubble. LOL. Contrary to the movie, the fascist dictatorship, and their Church that took over this country, Patton hated Nazis. And Had to zero respect for their ways.

    • @patriciaisac2306
      @patriciaisac2306 5 лет назад +1

      Hereward the Wake Very true old blood and guts his guts cost us our blood!!

  • @wubbadubda2291
    @wubbadubda2291 4 года назад +1971

    "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his" - General George S. Patton

    • @zacharybattista4928
      @zacharybattista4928 3 года назад +6

      close

    • @chamade166
      @chamade166 3 года назад +14

      Too bad he was a racist war criminal. And anti LBTQ+ too probably.

    • @wubbadubda2291
      @wubbadubda2291 3 года назад +53

      @@chamade166 How? 🤨

    • @cashwilder27
      @cashwilder27 3 года назад +15

      @@wubbadubda2291 he’s not exactly wrong, he was aware of a couple of massacres of pows while in Italy and really had a disdain for Jews. I can cite things if you would wish, he is very open about his hatred for Jews in personal letters. This is is a result of his marrying into a very wealthy that perpetuated his aristocratic point of view, as he truly was an American aristocratic. I have been enthralled with patton and find him to be a brilliant man and I’m glad he rose to prominence but those claims are more or less true. Although he claimed not to be a aware of the two atrocities committed, they were done under his command.

    • @babyrob9419
      @babyrob9419 3 года назад +40

      @@chamade166 oh god here come the ist people.

  • @DeltaSniperZRR
    @DeltaSniperZRR 10 лет назад +1861

    How could such an amazing General die months after World War II, in a car crash...unbelievable.

    • @DrumsTenorsax
      @DrumsTenorsax 9 лет назад +236

      He was a worry to the politicians in Washington and to one of the countries future Presidents, and he also worried Stalin. We had just proven we had the bomb, and I think that too added fear to what could happen.

    • @mattmangrum8491
      @mattmangrum8491 9 лет назад +13

      ***** creepy...

    • @mtz3843
      @mtz3843 9 лет назад +4

      good thing he was, he was a head job.

    • @axelsharpshire6457
      @axelsharpshire6457 9 лет назад +531

      Patton was one of the largest voices against Communism; so much so he wanted to go after the Russians right after WWII. There's a reasonable suspicion that his death wasn't an accident.

    • @DrumsTenorsax
      @DrumsTenorsax 9 лет назад +54

      I agree 100%.

  • @bigmclargehuge7170
    @bigmclargehuge7170 Год назад +308

    I had never heard General Patton speak in his own voice until now. As an Army SIGINT NCO it makes me glad that he was on our side. What an honor.

    • @AndyFlagg1
      @AndyFlagg1 Год назад +7

      Do you also regard it as an honour that your own took his life after he promised he would tell the americans how they fought the wrong enemy and how much he's ashamed of driving german families out of their homes by thousands?

    • @allencollins6031
      @allencollins6031 Год назад +9

      ​@@AndyFlagg1He could have have run for president and possibly run. They weren't about to let that happen, especially how he felt about Russia.

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад

      @@AndyFlagg1 Total conspiracy theory bullshit. He fought the right enemy. It might have been nice if he had fought one more enemy, before they got the bomb, but everyone was sick of war back then. The circumstances around Patton's death are well known and the consensus is that it indeed was an accident.
      What are you talking about driving German families out of their homes? What exactly are you referring to?

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад +2

      @@allencollins6031 Who are "They" and where is your evidence? There were people right there with him. It is pretty clear that what happened was an accident.

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад +1

      He sounds a bit like Elmer Fudd.

  • @seanmanwill2002
    @seanmanwill2002 2 года назад +259

    I've heard that General Patton did not like his own voice. He thought it was too high pitched. What a great man!
    A great man!

    • @gabrielmcollazo6675
      @gabrielmcollazo6675 2 года назад +9

      Best of the best! WE are all free thanks to him!

    • @nonamesupreme4968
      @nonamesupreme4968 2 года назад +20

      "WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY." - GENERAL PATTON (ASSASSINATED)

    • @datadavis
      @datadavis 2 года назад

      Killed by his own. He deserved a better fate than that.

    • @spider_hoss
      @spider_hoss 2 года назад +6

      Compared to George C Scott’s voice, it was. I think he got his point across pretty well.

    • @jeffreyfarmer8030
      @jeffreyfarmer8030 2 года назад +3

      Definitely sounds very different from George V Scott.

  •  5 лет назад +935

    My grandfather was in 3rd army ww2. He always told me that Patton was murdered!

    • @rileysimpson6046
      @rileysimpson6046 5 лет назад +14

      Eric Bowman Dude this is insane, this is all news to me!! I still dont understand the purpose behind assassinating him...

    • @brianjones4245
      @brianjones4245 5 лет назад +4

      @Eric Bowman #WOKE

    • @helloeveryone5251
      @helloeveryone5251 5 лет назад +94

      @@rileysimpson6046 "we fought the wrong enemy" this is what he said.

    • @Woozler554
      @Woozler554 5 лет назад +37

      My father used to say the same. It's interesting how the movie never touched upon his death.

    • @flamingeskimo1136
      @flamingeskimo1136 5 лет назад +6

      That's been conclusively disproved, look it up if you want but there's no grounds

  • @joebaxley1503
    @joebaxley1503 4 года назад +471

    We need him now.

    • @garyw5960
      @garyw5960 3 года назад +34

      He is with us now, going to serve his second term ending communism.

    • @choppyhaze2
      @choppyhaze2 3 года назад +4

      @@garyw5960 yessir.

    • @nole8923
      @nole8923 3 года назад +11

      Actually we need FDR now. Patton would just want us to invade somebody again.

    • @Kragatar
      @Kragatar 2 года назад +6

      Another year later, we need him a whole lot more.

    • @tkhorn53
      @tkhorn53 2 года назад +5

      More than ever right now.

  • @ghostrider2664
    @ghostrider2664 2 года назад +340

    I knew it was Reagan narrating. Even after all these years, that voice is unmistakable....

    • @PoulsboHoodlum
      @PoulsboHoodlum 10 месяцев назад +23

      When Reagan died my father cried, he always told me he ignited something in the hearts of Americans that made them proud again. One of my favorite quotes of president Reagan is, “Those who say are no heroes, simply don’t know where to look”

    • @andylast1898
      @andylast1898 5 месяцев назад +1

      Now u got trump reagan what u do.

    • @FATBOYPRINCEok
      @FATBOYPRINCEok 4 месяца назад

      he got a good voice

    • @alexanderh.5814
      @alexanderh.5814 3 месяца назад

      @@andylast1898Reagan is rolling in his grave watching what Trump has done to the GOP.

    • @csonracsonra9962
      @csonracsonra9962 3 месяца назад

      He narrated most all of the army training videos also

  • @joekurtz8303
    @joekurtz8303 3 года назад +323

    My Grandmother attended the parade prior to this speech, she hailed him by name "General Patton" as he drove by, he acknowledged her . One of her favorite war era stories she told us kids. She was a domestic servant as a young Mexican immigrant girl in Alhambra Ca, and was aware of the Patton family in the area.

  • @gerstein03
    @gerstein03 5 лет назад +517

    "May god have mercy upon my enemies, cause I won't"

    • @rmp7400
      @rmp7400 3 года назад +2

      Nor need Gen Patton have!
      It is important for a War to be assessed as Just - BEFORE engaging!!!
      Theologically, it IS just to "hate" enemy combatants...or it would be impossible to prevail over the enemy!. Yes, at the end of ones life, Almighty God will judge each individually - that is His right and duty. However,
      the warriors moral duty is to defeat the declared enemy....if in a Just War. If the War is NOT assessed as Just...and/or not a declared war - that is a different situation: one best to oppose/avoid.
      Given how obscure real causes of wars have been in the past century - and how effective propaganda has been in shaping the perceptions of events that did or did not occur over the past century - ( WHY American and British ships were sunk, -- Where, When, and by Whom) it is become almost impossible to know if a war is just.
      What we do now know, however: all prospective enlistees - and draftees - do better to avoid Governmental injections "for the sake of health". Most Governmental Bureaucrats have proven themselves untrustworthy.

    • @michaelscott2381
      @michaelscott2381 2 года назад +3

      IF YOU SHOW MERCY, YOU FAILED. DO NOT LEAVE ONE LIVING CREATURE BEHIND. SCROCHED EARTH.

    • @headbuster03
      @headbuster03 2 года назад +1

      Patton was og!

    • @salazarraul2792
      @salazarraul2792 2 года назад +2

      neither will god have on you!

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 2 года назад +1

      @@salazarraul2792 Who are you to speak for God?

  • @dgcore28
    @dgcore28 11 лет назад +359

    Patton was such an honorable man. He truly loved his country, his job, and took pride in destroying his enemies for the good of his beloved country and it's citizens. You can call him whatever you want but Patton hands down was one of the best Generals our military ever had. RIP Patton you tough SOB!

    • @Braylon18
      @Braylon18 6 лет назад +1

      kristi Balibrera you are a babe

    • @Ecocristero3
      @Ecocristero3 6 лет назад +17

      Actually General George S Patton said we defeated the wrong enemy, Loved Erwin Rommel, and planned on invading Moscow but was waiting till spring lest he end up like Napoleon, but the Bolshevik communist US wouldn’t have that so the OSS killed him.

    • @crusader4273
      @crusader4273 6 лет назад

      Braylon18 AMEN!

    • @jalalmiah2354
      @jalalmiah2354 6 лет назад +5

      He was on to the dews and was going to do something about it he said we defeated the wrong enemy and replaced them with savages he said the germens were the best race of europe

    • @nonamesupreme4968
      @nonamesupreme4968 2 года назад +7

      "WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY." - GENERAL PATTON (ASSASSINATED)

  • @kevinflaherty7592
    @kevinflaherty7592 Год назад +53

    My late father fought with Patton from Africa to europe.he was very proud of his service and having served under Patton.

    • @JimmyGoldberg-ux8ik
      @JimmyGoldberg-ux8ik 2 месяца назад

      🙏🏻

    • @MrBooYa-yd5er
      @MrBooYa-yd5er 2 месяца назад

      I don’t like what our corporate and political leaders do with his legacy..

  • @YOCARAJO100
    @YOCARAJO100 9 лет назад +228

    "Patriotism is not about to die for the country...patriotism is about to make your enemies die for their"
    -General Patton

    • @peace-now
      @peace-now 6 лет назад +6

      "Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" - Mark Twain.

    • @joevignolor4u949
      @joevignolor4u949 5 лет назад +9

      According to the movie he said: "No poor dumb bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won the war for making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

    • @Anton-kl5xq
      @Anton-kl5xq 5 лет назад +1

      patriotism is the religion of the rabid said Oscar Wilde.

    • @LudwigSauerteig
      @LudwigSauerteig 4 года назад

      because the orgin quote was : it is sweet to die for your country . spata

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind 2 года назад

      "Patriotism is what you use to convince morons that a draft-dodger loves the country more than people who fought and died in the military." - probably Donald Trump

  • @bertjesklotepino
    @bertjesklotepino 9 лет назад +418

    he was silenced.
    Patton: "We defeated the wrong enemy."
    Patton: "If what we are doing to Germany is called Liberty, i prefere death"

    • @PingasMonkey3rdClass
      @PingasMonkey3rdClass 5 лет назад +119

      @Salmon , the truth hurts

    • @PingasMonkey3rdClass
      @PingasMonkey3rdClass 5 лет назад +47

      @Salmon, No you're right. You're not a troll. A troll knows better and still does it to piss people off. You do it because of your ego

    • @PingasMonkey3rdClass
      @PingasMonkey3rdClass 5 лет назад +37

      @Salmon , "you dont agree with what I'm saying so I'm just gonna call you names until you capitulate" lol

    • @PingasMonkey3rdClass
      @PingasMonkey3rdClass 5 лет назад +34

      @Salmon , actually I started all this by saying "the truth hurts" and thats where you pitched a fit like a little kid getting told santa doesnt exist

    • @PingasMonkey3rdClass
      @PingasMonkey3rdClass 5 лет назад +31

      @Salmon , There are plenty of other groups who see the "Jewish coincidence". The Romans, the Ottomans, even blacks (which were sold to the US by Jewisng Dutch slave traders). So which am I? A muslim? Latin? African? Nonono.. worst of all IM A NAZI *gasp* what could possibly be worse? Oh I know. A communist

  • @kellywright540
    @kellywright540 Год назад +64

    My Dad fought in Patton's Third Army. While growing up in Wisconsin during the 1960's, we had three deities in our house - Jesus Christ, General Patton and Vince Lombardi. Whenever the movie Patton came on the TV, you can bet your boots that everyone in the family was watching. My Dad said that that movie was as close to the real Patton as you could possibly imagine.

    • @bidenator9760
      @bidenator9760 11 месяцев назад +4

      Great story!

    • @synanthony
      @synanthony 2 месяца назад +1

      God bless you and your family

  • @constantdarkfog49
    @constantdarkfog49 4 года назад +154

    His death was really freaky, survive's battle in WW2, comes home to die in a freak car accident on base, OMG. Bless ya, Patton

    • @keithmorgan6608
      @keithmorgan6608 4 года назад +16

      Chuck Pestacchi he died in Germany

    • @constantdarkfog49
      @constantdarkfog49 4 года назад +3

      I did not know that he died in Germany?

    • @Capostrophy
      @Capostrophy 3 года назад +56

      He was assassinated.

    • @kessler682
      @kessler682 3 года назад +46

      @@constantdarkfog49
      He was assassinated

    • @GSBroker
      @GSBroker 3 года назад +10

      No he wasn't assassinated, idiots. Stop making conspiracy theories about everything ffs.

  • @rockhard2654
    @rockhard2654 10 лет назад +83

    George Patton was
    1. a guy who knew what war was
    2.understood why it was
    3. knew how to do it right
    Patton was not a war lover
    he didn't start wars
    his buisness was ending them

    • @Noctifern
      @Noctifern 6 лет назад +2

      Vegtam if the us was on germanys side they would have still won

    • @jacquesstoop2587
      @jacquesstoop2587 6 лет назад +2

      Timber Wolf can’t understand what you’re saying.

    • @nonamesupreme4968
      @nonamesupreme4968 2 года назад +1

      "WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY." - GENERAL PATTON (ASSASSINATED)

    • @chewchewtrain
      @chewchewtrain 2 года назад

      Then explain why he wanted to invade the Soviet Union so bad.

    • @kingkoi6542
      @kingkoi6542 2 года назад +2

      @@chewchewtrain Did you see what they did to the Ukraine's and Poles? That's why he wanted to invade, he was sent there to remove dictatorships from Europe and left the job unfinished...

  • @MrRobster1234
    @MrRobster1234 8 лет назад +869

    There were a lot of fishy things about the accident that killed Patton.

    • @HankCherry
      @HankCherry 8 лет назад +22

      +Rob Mackenzie Yes Givelta fish......

    • @oiiviawiide6097
      @oiiviawiide6097 8 лет назад +4

      That's why I want a Hummer, not a Jeep.

    • @MrRobster1234
      @MrRobster1234 8 лет назад +10

      He was in a Cadillac when he was injured. Funny comment though.

    • @ericdowden6010
      @ericdowden6010 8 лет назад +7

      +❤ OIivia WiIde ❤ There's an off color comment here, but I think it's best left unsaid.

    • @uliseschavez4499
      @uliseschavez4499 8 лет назад +54

      well he did have the the idea that the Stalin would eventually turn his country into one of our greatest foe, and on top of that proposed to attack the Russian at its weakest

  • @billlohrke2610
    @billlohrke2610 2 года назад +192

    He was one if our greatest generals and a true warrior. He was a winner and could not tolerate a looser. Our military should strive to produce generals like General Patton.

    • @gofoats
      @gofoats Год назад +3

      Powell, Schwarzkopf, etc. We have commanders that are well schooled and experienced as Patton. There are some countries that really do not want to know how well these commanders have learned from the examples of Patton, Ike, Bradley, and yeah Montgomery (bone to the Brits)

    • @edcrane4438
      @edcrane4438 Год назад +7

      A man like Patton is sent by GOD at a time of need to accomplish GODs will on evil men!

    • @akos0327
      @akos0327 Год назад +9

      @@edcrane4438 And the evil men murdered him. He refused to comply the morgenthau-plan, that was his "fault".

    • @edcrane4438
      @edcrane4438 Год назад +5

      @@akos0327 they murdered JESUS too, but that didn’t stop what he accomplished!

    • @akos0327
      @akos0327 Год назад +3

      @@edcrane4438 thats 100% true!! About this, i remembered one historical statement. Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun said when they (the evils) tried to denigrate him after the world war 2:
      “I can wait for another occasion and for another court. The day
      may come either tomorrow or, perhaps, in a hundred years, but I
      can wait. I have time enough. It makes no difference whether I am
      alive or dead. But I can and I will wait.

  • @Eddie-ym1vq
    @Eddie-ym1vq 8 лет назад +318

    Someone like Patton is what this nation needs in these times. He did not like war but if it comes he would do what is necessary to win.

    • @rodrikofharlaw6848
      @rodrikofharlaw6848 7 лет назад +25

      Eddie 1925 No, the man loved war, the idea of never fighting a war again depressed him. He was born to fight and had been a soldier in every past life.

    • @Eddie-ym1vq
      @Eddie-ym1vq 7 лет назад +15

      You only believe he loved war from the movies. He didn't like war any more than the common soldier. Although he did believe in reincarnation.

    • @gtneal
      @gtneal 7 лет назад +7

      He loved war. He sought war out. He lived for war.

    • @57harrierstrikes
      @57harrierstrikes 7 лет назад +8

      The guy was a war historian who, after the war, wanted to start another, even larger one.

    • @Eddie-ym1vq
      @Eddie-ym1vq 7 лет назад +12

      It wouldn't have been that big of a war because the Soviets were practically wiped out but I guess you're right because we wasted more lives fighting communism in Korea and Vietnam.

  • @marshallposey2063
    @marshallposey2063 4 года назад +805

    One of our finest Generals. Fascinating tactician and leader.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 4 года назад +36

      Germany also recognized Patton as the United States greatest General.

    • @eminem13001
      @eminem13001 4 года назад +3

      Marshall Posey he’s amazing

    • @jwiles545
      @jwiles545 3 года назад +13

      @@tmo4330 That belief mostly comes from the Movie. But in reality, the Germans didn't pay that much attention to him, at least no more than they did any of the other senior US commanders. The German general facing Patton in Metz though that Patton missed several opportunities to successfully attack.

    • @tmo4330
      @tmo4330 3 года назад +10

      @@jwiles545 I didn't know that. To me Ike was the most over rated General in WW2. He was very popular though.

    • @Hans_Hamon
      @Hans_Hamon 3 года назад +3

      Completely. He is a wonderful study.

  • @alhara4843
    @alhara4843 5 лет назад +730

    Patton had a last minute realization and stated "we fought the wrong enemy"

    • @markharrison2544
      @markharrison2544 5 лет назад +33

      He had been increasingly pro-Nazi towards the end of the war.

    • @tessa1238
      @tessa1238 5 лет назад +86

      @@markharrison2544 He enjoyed killing Nazi scum right to the very end.

    • @SVSky
      @SVSky 4 года назад +117

      @@markharrison2544 Stupidity. 1. He killed a lot of them. 2. He understood that the mid level bureaucrats (who were Nazi party members) couldn't be immediately replaced if they wanted to keep the German populace out of starvation. The US did the same in Japan after the war, left a lot of the civilian administration in place. That does not make someone "pro Nazi"

    • @trousersnake1841
      @trousersnake1841 4 года назад +8

      I suppose he didn't liberate any concentration , extermination Camps ?

    • @habitualnoticer8383
      @habitualnoticer8383 4 года назад +16

      @@markharrison2544 for no reason at all....I'm sure

  • @bradhill1099
    @bradhill1099 2 года назад +68

    There was no man more honorable and patriotic than General Patton. Great man.

    • @beckyann8389
      @beckyann8389 Год назад +4

      I agree, thank you GSP for everything. And may God bless you.

    • @kakyoin9688
      @kakyoin9688 Год назад +2

      Disagree, Grant was better

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад +1

      Really? None? No one? Are you sure?

  • @apatheticbystanders
    @apatheticbystanders 8 лет назад +1441

    we defeated the wrong enemy "George S Patton"

    • @terryvoigt3209
      @terryvoigt3209 7 лет назад +6

      wild wild west

    • @whatfreedom7
      @whatfreedom7 7 лет назад +62

      I'd like to find a book that talks about WW2 in detail. All I ever see on TV is the battle of the bulge. I want to hear both sides of WW2.

    • @averagehuman1821
      @averagehuman1821 6 лет назад +40

      Mr Sisel Oh yeah, America with its just recently developed nuclear bomb would really shit their pants from a country with a depleted army, and no nuclear weapons at the time, YOU SIR ARE A DUMBASS

    • @aaronscott4984
      @aaronscott4984 6 лет назад +52

      Yea it was no secret that he wanted to enter the war with the Nazi's cause what they don't teach you in school is that Hitler asked for peace many time's in the western front but the UK was ignorant because it knew America would eventually join. And he wasn't favored too much because he started calling people out for massacring German POW's particularly Eisenhower. He said you condemn them for trying to rid the world of a putrid race than send warriors to their death's at work camp's? If that is fighting for liberty and freedom than give me death.

    • @DrEcKiGeRDaN88
      @DrEcKiGeRDaN88 6 лет назад +58

      Yall morons who think Nazis or Germany were evil.
      Go all and listen to the speech of Benjamin H. Freedman on RUclips.

  • @timw5108
    @timw5108 8 лет назад +63

    I believe Patton was over 60 when he led the 3rd Army; that alone was impressive. He didn't stay put at headquarters.

    • @Autobotmatt428
      @Autobotmatt428 8 лет назад +8

      No its way more impressive he was 58 and 59 when he lead 3rd army.

    • @mishantbhukal8889
      @mishantbhukal8889 7 лет назад

      Wаtсh Pаttooоn оnlineee in hd quality here => twitter.com/5a7d1d92bf379382d/status/796185822508658688 Рatton Spееeeсh

    • @a.leemorrisjr.9255
      @a.leemorrisjr.9255 2 года назад +1

      Last place Payton wanted to be was@a desk! The action was up front with the troops.

  • @davedrolett6890
    @davedrolett6890 9 лет назад +381

    Americas greatest General of WWII

    • @Awesomenesspossumness
      @Awesomenesspossumness 9 лет назад +1

      WW Eleven? Tf

    • @jspee1965
      @jspee1965 9 лет назад +15

      dave Drolett Pattons grandfather had the good sense to fight for the South.

    • @JF-tt6wy
      @JF-tt6wy 9 лет назад +22

      AwesomePossom Learn Roman Numerals, kid.

    • @gbuster129
      @gbuster129 9 лет назад +4

      jspee1965 Gen Patton learned his military genius at VMI, a great Southern School attended by Gen. Stonewall Jackson.

    • @BoyPnoy1999
      @BoyPnoy1999 9 лет назад +5

      gbuster129 Actually, Patton received most of his education in the military at West Point. He was a cadet at VMI at the time, but eventually went to West Point after one year.

  • @itic8318
    @itic8318 2 года назад +26

    My uncle fought under General Paton... RIP 🌹🙏🇺🇲

  • @ProfPistolPete
    @ProfPistolPete 4 года назад +361

    And yet half our country feels no emotion for those buried beneath those crosses. We fought the wrong enemy and, not only that, we have been defeated from within by those Patton wished for us to crush. RIP, General.

    • @hillbillyhoe8169
      @hillbillyhoe8169 2 года назад +21

      Well said, in fact I’m surprised the Liberal idiots haven’t tore his statue down yet. We need leaders like Patton to save us today, and the leader that was closest to a General Patton (Pres Trump) got cheated out of a presidency. It’s sickening!

    • @glynnisthomas9165
      @glynnisthomas9165 2 года назад +8

      We are precariously balanced between fragile peace and certain war but we are not at all defeated. It has only just begun.

    • @ericlegend95
      @ericlegend95 2 года назад +25

      @@hillbillyhoe8169 Lol imagine comparing Trump to Patton, a man that cheated his way out of fighting in Vietnam to a man that served in both world wars.
      We all know how pissed of Patton was at guys who broke down during the wars, imagine how pissed he would be at a super rich man using his contacts to not even fight in a war? Don’t you see the hypocrisy in your comment?

    • @montejones2890
      @montejones2890 2 года назад +4

      @@ericlegend95 the only hypocrite I see here is you libtard.

    • @lt.kettch4652
      @lt.kettch4652 2 года назад +19

      @@ericlegend95 I was just thinking the same. Patton actually commanded troops up front, in war time. That is a far cry from anything happening today. And Patton and Trump are far different people.
      But I guess to disagree is to be labeled. Isn’t that the definition of a persecution complex?

  • @701CPD
    @701CPD 6 лет назад +66

    "All my life I've wanted to lead men in a desperate battle...and now I'm going to do it." A great leader, who prepared himself from childhood for the time when his country needed him most. "Duty, Honor, Country."

  • @grifce
    @grifce 6 лет назад +227

    I wish he was here now
    We need him again.

    • @samfisher9070
      @samfisher9070 4 года назад

      And General Milley looks like MacArthur . . .

    • @dontbeafraidmedia7246
      @dontbeafraidmedia7246 4 года назад +6

      He is trump or trumps his clone or em reincarnation

    • @markjalessian
      @markjalessian 4 года назад +2

      I think he's in the White House right now, and hopefully for the next four years.

    • @garyw5960
      @garyw5960 3 года назад +3

      He is in the white house going to serve his 2nd term, finishing communism. He already defeated biden during civil war. He will win again. He who laugh the last laugh the best.

    • @shawnv123
      @shawnv123 3 года назад

      @@garyw5960 biden

  • @mikeanagnostou4399
    @mikeanagnostou4399 2 года назад +66

    “The Patton Speech” is one of the great speeches of the Twentieth Century. It was alluded to in part in the opening scene of the movie PATTON with George C. Scott. I’ve done a dramatic reading of it in my bar and it never fails to bring the house down.

    • @LaughingStud
      @LaughingStud Год назад

      Hitler eats Patton for breakfast with his improvised speech infront of his mirror during shaving , every single day of the week.

    • @mikeanagnostou4399
      @mikeanagnostou4399 Год назад

      @@LaughingStud 🤣

  • @justingammon1163
    @justingammon1163 7 лет назад +36

    My Grandpa was a rifleman for Patton. He always spoke very highly of him.

  • @PedloProductions
    @PedloProductions 4 года назад +173

    I was totally expecting him to sound different but yet his voice still would strike terror into my soul if I was on the wrong end of his men’s weapons 🇺🇸

    • @19kilo241
      @19kilo241 3 года назад +22

      One of the reason he included so much profanity in his speeches to his troops was to compensate for his non threatening high pitched voice.

    • @Gamble661
      @Gamble661 2 года назад +11

      Yeah, a lot of people expect him to sound like George C. Scott...but Scott was just an actor, Patton was the real deal.

    • @alitlweird
      @alitlweird 2 года назад +9

      from what I understand, he hated his own voice. I’ve heard several historians make mention of that.

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 2 года назад +4

      It's not too bad once you're used to it and know it's coming, but one hell of a shock if you're expecting George C. Scott.

    • @VidarrKerr
      @VidarrKerr 2 года назад +2

      He sounds like a nitwit. I was expecting a much better voice and diction.

  • @tangowarrior5405
    @tangowarrior5405 9 лет назад +232

    Politicians are the lowest form of life. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
    George S. Patton

    • @johndanielson3777
      @johndanielson3777 6 лет назад +23

      Yeah I just googled this and guess what, Patton never said this.

    • @stevoschannel4127
      @stevoschannel4127 6 лет назад +2

      rascalMatt17 I love the sentiment though...

    • @sabrecatsmiladon7380
      @sabrecatsmiladon7380 6 лет назад +5

      My Gawd...CRYING about liberals...BE a damn MAN and stop whining like a little child...WAHHHHH...liberals are ____________. WAhhhhh!

    • @johndanielson3777
      @johndanielson3777 5 лет назад +3

      Jim Watson absolutely.
      1.) Liberal wasn’t a dirty word until Reagan and Bush 41 made it into one in the 1980’s
      2.) Patton wasn’t a Democrat or Republican. He actually compared both of them to Nazis

    • @peace-now
      @peace-now 5 лет назад +2

      Interesting quote. I knew Patton hated left wingers.

  • @TickleSalty
    @TickleSalty Год назад +19

    One of our greatest generals. My former neighbor was a tank commander in Patton’s 3rd Army. He had said that in the movie Patton, his voice was not the deep gravely voice by George C Scott, but rather high pitched. The newsreel proves that.

    • @americangirl-
      @americangirl- Год назад +3

      Scott played him 2 perfection....the voice doesn't matter ✌❤🌎🇺🇸🎆

  • @theinquisitor711
    @theinquisitor711 6 лет назад +755

    Great General.
    He was murdered by cowards.

    • @nascardiecast6687
      @nascardiecast6687 4 года назад +7

      @Norbero Fontanez truth

    • @JeepTJWheelin
      @JeepTJWheelin 4 года назад +13

      @awake_more _than_ever Excellent points!

    • @Rendell001
      @Rendell001 4 года назад +8

      @@billygiles3276 So... you're advocating genocide are you?

    • @jhanlon1903
      @jhanlon1903 4 года назад +8

      @awake_more _than_ever we must rise up, they feared he would become president, we have our best chance now, look at the resistance,

    • @terryplew3333
      @terryplew3333 4 года назад +1

      It happens you know.

  • @tribeofjoseph7019
    @tribeofjoseph7019 6 лет назад +226

    My Respects to General Patton, a TRUE Hero to the American Republic Nationalism.
    GOD BLESS YOU, General Patton.

    • @ericreingardt2504
      @ericreingardt2504 4 года назад +2

      Nationalism? That's what we defeated in the war.

    • @simpleandawesomeanime3220
      @simpleandawesomeanime3220 4 года назад +5

      @@ericreingardt2504 No we defeated facism not nationalism

    • @ericreingardt2504
      @ericreingardt2504 4 года назад +3

      @@simpleandawesomeanime3220 the Nazis were the NATIONALIST socialists

    • @punkhop23
      @punkhop23 4 года назад

      remove nationalism and i agree

    • @simpleandawesomeanime3220
      @simpleandawesomeanime3220 4 года назад

      @@theducklover2652 When did I ever say anything about Italy????

  • @dawtesla
    @dawtesla 8 лет назад +41

    They killed this man. The war was over. He wanted people to hear the truth. Like always, they couldn't have this. RIP

    • @The_Lunch_Man
      @The_Lunch_Man 7 лет назад +10

      Derek Worthington true. He tried to warn the allies, and they killed him.

    • @dawtesla
      @dawtesla 7 лет назад +4

      1M0RTAL_CH1CKEN Ya, I believe they got Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler too. He stopped a banker coup and they had to get him for that. He wrote, War Is A Racket (1935).

    • @domingogonzalez9711
      @domingogonzalez9711 7 лет назад +1

      Derek Worthington sorry he died in an accident,was not killed.Plus why would they, and what truth?Lol the guy was a guy who was anti semetic and said the germans were the good guys and he was uneducated,he dint say abaut what ill call the truth,that the soviets were not there allies it was clear but delano trusted him and told him to take berlin.We know how that went.

    • @majorsmythe1
      @majorsmythe1 5 лет назад

      Who the heck are "they". "they" sure do a lot, cover it up, never find anything,,,,,who are "they" and how do they keep all these secrets!!????

    • @nonamesupreme4968
      @nonamesupreme4968 2 года назад +3

      "WE DEFEATED THE WRONG ENEMY." - GENERAL PATTON (ASSASSINATED)

  • @williamjohnzuggi2534
    @williamjohnzuggi2534 2 года назад +11

    Many people do not realize how much he loved his men 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

  • @lanetomkow6885
    @lanetomkow6885 6 лет назад +624

    "We fought the wrong enemy"

  • @neriksen
    @neriksen 5 лет назад +638

    He was correct. ‘America defeated the wrong enemy ‘

    • @tessa1238
      @tessa1238 5 лет назад +56

      Patton enjoyed killing Nazis. Who wouldn't?

    • @pep590
      @pep590 5 лет назад +13

      Nils Eriksen Didn't both enemies need defeating? Couldn't fight the Soviets and not the Nazi's.

    • @Antimanele104
      @Antimanele104 5 лет назад +61

      @Troll Ov Metal
      Fuck the nazis and fuck the commies !
      Death to both supporters of these abject mentalities !
      Long live the constitutional monarchy !

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 5 лет назад +12

      Nils Eriksen you’re right. Because America did not defeat the nazis

    • @aidansouthall1
      @aidansouthall1 5 лет назад +16

      Troll Ov Metal okay yea youre not worth arguing with lmao. You couldve started with “i dont believe in the holocaust” Fucking moron. Cant believe shmucks like you exist.

  • @amberklopsch2257
    @amberklopsch2257 4 года назад +119

    Rest In Peace General Patton!! Thank you for your bravery and service to this country 🇺🇸🇺🇸

    • @clydepeligro2994
      @clydepeligro2994 2 года назад +4

      ANYTIME. *SALUTES* ;D

    • @TonyM540
      @TonyM540 Год назад +3

      And to the world.

    • @slowery43
      @slowery43 Год назад +1

      excellent virtue signlaing there pussycat

  • @dennisthorn2190
    @dennisthorn2190 2 года назад +44

    They don't make them anymore like him..rest in peace General!🙏🙏

  • @shawnbruce6934
    @shawnbruce6934 2 года назад +110

    A Real Man, Leader and Legend. Everything now is Wrong In America.

    • @miketrusky476
      @miketrusky476 2 года назад +4

      He wasn't a traitor working for Rusdia so modern day republicans would hate him like they do McCain.

    • @leandroleandro2962
      @leandroleandro2962 2 года назад +6

      He was right! Period.

    • @bobt7459
      @bobt7459 2 года назад +2

      @@miketrusky476 Expand your thinking

    • @thomaspick4123
      @thomaspick4123 2 года назад +2

      Because we let THEM in. The Germans were kind in extending a helping hand as they escaped the pogroms of Russia. Then, they stabbed Germany in the back. Germany was utterly destroyed. Do you like what they are doing to America now? The control they have over all aspects of American life?

    • @miketrusky476
      @miketrusky476 2 года назад +1

      @@thomaspick4123 Hate and Greed the two PILLARS OF THE REPUBLICAN CULT faith. Without Greed, the republican cult cannot exist, without Hate republicans have no reason to exist..

  • @billbright1755
    @billbright1755 8 лет назад +157

    George
    Patton did not like Joe Stalin

  • @msf47
    @msf47 6 лет назад +573

    They killed him cuz of this words -We defeated the wrong enemy-

    • @LukeLovesRose
      @LukeLovesRose 6 лет назад +53

      That sounds very truthful. He also talked about how much they stunk, because they shit on the floor instead of in the toilet. Patton knew what was going on in WW2 and he wanted to expose it. That's what got him killed. A man of great character.

    • @nycbestmannycbestman25
      @nycbestmannycbestman25 5 лет назад +6

      @@LukeLovesRose these were human beings who went through living hell and had not recovered from their experience.

    • @basedsavage4793
      @basedsavage4793 5 лет назад +9

      Luke M Jews really shat on the floor? Lol, that’s disgusting

    • @krisfrederick5001
      @krisfrederick5001 4 года назад +2

      I beLIEve that. I really don't doubt the U.S. would do that and that he believed that. I wonder myself. Food for thought

    • @AlbertBasedman
      @AlbertBasedman 4 года назад +21

      @CounterStrike211 he hated Nazis and liked the Germans. There is a clear difference between the two, the Wehrmacht fought for Germany, the SS fought for Hitler.

  • @benignopuentes7657
    @benignopuentes7657 2 года назад +7

    This man is no woke mark milly. Thank you sir for your service and being an American. I salute you.

    • @orvilleh.larson7581
      @orvilleh.larson7581 2 года назад +1

      Of course, you're referring to General Mark ("Thoroughly Postmodern Milley") Milley, USA, that craven, politically correct hack.

    • @texaswunderkind
      @texaswunderkind 2 года назад +1

      He's no Donald Trump, either. He never dodged a draft or raw dogged a porn star while his wife was home with a baby.

  • @AliG-xh1jm
    @AliG-xh1jm 6 лет назад +83

    Imagine the world we live in...if ONLY Truman had listened to Patton and McArthur.

    • @synth1644
      @synth1644 5 лет назад +7

      well i would call it a nuclear wasteland

    • @NarwhalNuke
      @NarwhalNuke 4 года назад

      if only we used more nukes? how is that preferable to the cold war

    • @georgesouthwick7000
      @georgesouthwick7000 3 года назад +4

      Truman was jealous and afraid of both. He knew he didn’t stand a chance if either one decided to run for President against him. When Eisenhower decided to run, Truman knew he would experience a humiliating defeat, so to spare himself the embarrassment, he took the coward’s way out and decided not to run. He gave himself the face saving exit he refused to give MacArthur. I believe this is called hypocrisy.

    • @kyokogodai-ir6hy
      @kyokogodai-ir6hy 3 года назад +1

      @@synth1644 What are you smoking? Had Truman listed to Patton, in 1945, the Soviets would have been defeated. Then, Marxism would have not developed a bomb. But Truman didn't listen, and now Marxism is ready to devour the United States, as it has Europe and Canada. Better get used to it.

    • @synth1644
      @synth1644 3 года назад

      @@kyokogodai-ir6hy Well yeah but ww2 just ended imagine straight after that another world war with 2 superpowers i do think eventually the united states would won but there would be mass casualties on both sides famine and other bad things as for the soviet union i like to think truman knew that their collapse was inevitable anyways i said that 1 year ago didnt really think much about it but thanks.

  • @karlwills3549
    @karlwills3549 9 лет назад +1794

    wonder what Patton would think of Merkels Germany today,,,LOL.........

    • @BigBadBampa
      @BigBadBampa 8 лет назад +297

      +karl wills Wonder what he would think of America today.

    • @leethomas8199
      @leethomas8199 8 лет назад +222

      +BigBadBampa
      "Wonder what he would think of America today."
      He predicted it, and according to the porter who over heard Eisenhower the swedish jew saying "we need to get rid of this guy" on the train, it may be the reason why Patton died in a mysterious traffic accident (or a lethal injection in his hospital bed after saying to his wife "they are going to kill me".)

    • @KernalPancakes
      @KernalPancakes 8 лет назад +25

      +BigBadBampa Trump will find us a strong general who won't get fired for cursing. We have them.

    • @leethomas8199
      @leethomas8199 8 лет назад +52

      +KernalPancakes Trump never planned on winning he is doing what his jewish masters told him to do, destroy the gop and ensure hillary gets in there.

    • @karlwills3549
      @karlwills3549 8 лет назад

      +BigBadBampa ,probably a post war nightmare..

  • @m118lr
    @m118lr 4 года назад +50

    A “General’s” General and an AMERICAN National treasure

    • @martinc9723
      @martinc9723 4 года назад +2

      A soldiers General

    • @theenzoferrari458
      @theenzoferrari458 3 года назад

      In a alternate reality where the 3rd army marched into Hitlers wolf den compound and surrounded him and general Patton walked in there and put a cap in hitlers dome.

    • @steelers6titles
      @steelers6titles 3 года назад

      Top field commander; unsuitable for anything higher, as his superiors Marshall and Eisenhower well knew. Made anti-Semitic comments, which is notable in that he was so good at warring against Nazi Germany when it was necessary. On record as not wanting to prosecute Nazis after the war, if I'm correct.

  • @a.leemorrisjr.9255
    @a.leemorrisjr.9255 2 года назад +73

    I still recall how some WW2 vets sadly remarked, "Maybe we shoulda let the Axis win" after seeing what happened to the nation in 60s-70s. I speak myself as an army vet of 8 years enlisted & I'd serve again, but seems like today we commit our forces to fights we don't intend to win. It's all geopolitical now.

    • @guitarsrcool4922
      @guitarsrcool4922 2 года назад +8

      Your right. Since Vietnam it seems like we fight with one hand tied behind our back. That's what happens when the suits run the show.

    • @pointlessrandom7619
      @pointlessrandom7619 2 года назад +11

      If they said that about the 60s and 70s, imagine what would happen if they saw the US now.

    • @cindymaxa942
      @cindymaxa942 2 года назад +4

      I have to agree with you 200 &10% it dose seem like our military is held back .

    • @albundy7198
      @albundy7198 2 года назад +3

      Amen brother

    • @Music--ng8cd
      @Music--ng8cd 2 года назад +3

      War is not about winning it's about making money for the elites. Read General Smedley Butler's book War is a Racket.
      Also, we didn't win WWII, the Russians did. They took on the bulk of the German Army and lost 20 million people, all while modernizing their industry in order to fight the war.

  • @---hv2le
    @---hv2le 4 года назад +211

    "We defeated the wrong enemy." --Patton

    • @deanchapman1824
      @deanchapman1824 3 года назад +27

      Now we're going to have to fight that enemy in our own country.

    • @ScarriorIII
      @ScarriorIII 3 года назад +4

      Those who have the patience can defeat anything.

    • @baguettedestroyer1800
      @baguettedestroyer1800 3 года назад +3

      @@deanchapman1824 the Japanese?

    • @padraig5335
      @padraig5335 3 года назад +8

      @@sramenbowl Yuri Bezmenov tells it all.

    • @tekmekster
      @tekmekster 3 года назад

      Defeated who exactly?

  • @rickhemphill1253
    @rickhemphill1253 8 лет назад +43

    My father fought with Patton's boys during WW2 and he has medals from US Army,Belgium and France. He met my mother a young French girl he helped to save along with her brother and my grandmother right after the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne as they had been hiding in a basement there.I had the privilege and honor of hearing first hand stories from both my parents,my uncle,grandmother that gave perspectives of living under Nazi rule and the fight to defeat Nazi rule both the the horrors of survival and sacrifice that they endured then and the rest of their lives as none of them could ever forget their experiences.Most of America now has either been taught lies or nothing at all about that most hellish WAR and apparently are now doomed to repeat history. I really pity these last generations for their apathy and ignorance.

    • @Courier-gq6ym
      @Courier-gq6ym 8 лет назад +2

      Rick Hemphill we are human, we are doomed to make the same mistakes multiple times, I'm not a pacifist and I'm certainly not a religious man, but I know when things come back to bite us in the ass.

    • @olhickory7117
      @olhickory7117 6 лет назад +1

      Wow, very kosher comment.

    • @tomortale2333
      @tomortale2333 5 лет назад +2

      fine/if everything u say is true/an i believe it is...then why all the nonsense about we 'r fighting wrong enemy?? alll the evil things like u said/ done by the nazi's[ GERMANS] an all the above wanted to turn on russia?? bullshitt.thats crazy.

    • @a.leemorrisjr.9255
      @a.leemorrisjr.9255 2 года назад

      When you don't learn from your past history you're damned to keep repeating it. Only the fear of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) has kept us out of another World War so far.

    • @wonjubhoy
      @wonjubhoy 2 года назад

      God bless your parents Rick. Just to let you know I lived in France and attended a ceremony to remember the heroes of the French resistance as well as going to the d day beaches as a tribute to the heroes who fought there

  • @marclayne9261
    @marclayne9261 4 года назад +63

    Patton said we fought the wrong people, and he was right...

    • @hertzair1186
      @hertzair1186 4 года назад +6

      Doug Bevins ....uh, I believe Mr Layne meant the Communist Russians...who we supported financially/militarily through Lend-Lease during WW 2...became our immediate enemy after Germany surrended...he saw the irony.

  • @hansborne4929
    @hansborne4929 11 месяцев назад +4

    He said the Truth about the good german People, and then he died!
    And he said "We defeated the wrong enemy"! Rest in Peace Mr. Patton!

  • @turk5832
    @turk5832 5 лет назад +302

    He was a badass. One of the greatest military commanders in world history!

    • @youareright4917
      @youareright4917 2 года назад +8

      And he learned his tactics by reading Rommel's book!

    • @luisgonzagaosollo7970
      @luisgonzagaosollo7970 2 года назад +3

      You don't need to be great military strategist to defeat the enemy if your troops and equipment outnumber that enemy, without even counting the numbers of your own allies.

    • @clydepeligro2994
      @clydepeligro2994 2 года назад +1

      THANKS M8.

    • @clydepeligro2994
      @clydepeligro2994 2 года назад

      @@youareright4917 OH THANKS.

    • @clydepeligro2994
      @clydepeligro2994 2 года назад

      @@luisgonzagaosollo7970 LOL DUHHH LOL

  • @swampmanactual7392
    @swampmanactual7392 7 лет назад +39

    There's nothing more American than seeing George Patton give a speech in a video narrated by Ronald Reagan.

    • @nicolasbouyiouclis4726
      @nicolasbouyiouclis4726 4 года назад +1

      Really? there's nothing more American?
      a speech of an American hero be narrated by a coward dodger..?
      Go figure..

  • @borders.language.culture.17
    @borders.language.culture.17 9 лет назад +81

    What happened to real men? LIBERALISM!
    I weep for a Patton to restore order and decimate our enemy in todays world.
    -GODSPEED

    • @vladimireng4938
      @vladimireng4938 8 лет назад

      Vietnam syndrome

    • @nunyabeeswax186
      @nunyabeeswax186 6 лет назад

      WE are the resistance. Stand for good sense and morality ( at the very least}

    • @a_can_of_soda
      @a_can_of_soda 6 лет назад +5

      BORDERS. LANGUAGE.CULTURE. We had a liberal Democrat as President during World War II.
      Bu then again, you right-wing snowflakes hate facts.

    • @lurking0death
      @lurking0death 6 лет назад +1

      Jesus was a socialist, knumbknutz. Where do you think the loaves and fishes came from at the sermon on the mount? Wendy's?

    • @_chew_
      @_chew_ 6 лет назад

      Silly American. Your enemy now is your government and the corporations that own it, not some overseas bogeyman the media tries to scare you with. You don't need a general like Patton, you need a revolutionary like Robespierre.

  • @BSinNH
    @BSinNH 2 года назад +14

    One of the greatest General’s in American history.

  • @brianmccarthy5557
    @brianmccarthy5557 3 года назад +98

    For those who don't know, both Patton and Doolittle were native Angelenos. Patton's mother was descended from William Wolfskill (great name), a fur trapper who was one of the first Americans to settle in Southern California, become a Catholic and intermarry into a local family. There was a class at, I think, Los Angeles High known as "The Class the Stars Fell On" because of the number of generals and admirals in WWII who graduated at the same time. I believe Doittle was a member of this class.

    • @MelancoliaI
      @MelancoliaI Год назад +2

      Good point, some bad...well ...bad folks come from LA (and I mean bad as in good)

    • @JarrodFrates
      @JarrodFrates Год назад +8

      The Class the Stars Fell On was the 1915 graduating class of the United States Military Academy, not a Los Angeles high school, and neither Patton nor Doolittle was part of it. Patton graduated the USMA in 1909, and Doolittle never attended. Patton attended a private school, while Doolittle graduated from Manual Arts High School.

    • @jimclark6256
      @jimclark6256 Год назад +1

      IT was not a high school, i will let you look it up.

    • @sean68mtown
      @sean68mtown Год назад

      Very interesting

    • @brianmccarthy5557
      @brianmccarthy5557 Год назад +1

      ​​@@JarrodFrates It was called that here in LA. I doubt it was ever well known to outsiders. My father, who was born in LA and grew up in the South Athens neighborhood of South Los Angeles, was an LA Unified history teacher and also taught adult school at Manual Arts for many years. You're right that I was referring to Manual rather than LA High. I don't make casual comments. The well known West Point Class was a completely different matter.

  • @Lava1964
    @Lava1964 10 лет назад +45

    Patton was a badass. I like him!

    • @peterpan6027
      @peterpan6027 9 лет назад +3

      In all my years of living I have only severed two adult causes one was the Confederate States of America and the latter was the Allies I was privileged to sever Patton the greatest general ever to step foot on a battlefield

  • @tscooter22
    @tscooter22 7 лет назад +14

    Thank you for your service, General Patton.
    R.I.P., good sir.

  • @usnchief1339
    @usnchief1339 2 года назад +14

    Without a doubt, he is one of Americas greatest warriors!

  • @oceanpacific886
    @oceanpacific886 7 лет назад +823

    WTF happened to californians...hard to believe that this great man came from sucha place

    • @JJF10101957
      @JJF10101957 7 лет назад +102

      What happened to California was San Francisco Socialism. Even 40 years ago it wasn't like what it is today!

    • @meteor2012able
      @meteor2012able 7 лет назад +60

      Oscar P Fukin Democrap liberals candy asses raised by helicopter mom's .... and of courses welfare state socialism ..... no real men or women worth a shit.

    • @learntospellpeople
      @learntospellpeople 7 лет назад +29

      Yeah, you keep telling yourselves that, drooling wingers and teabaggers. The Democrat liberal leadership and dominance in CA is the reason that state is one of the richest most profitable; fact, if California was it's own country it would be 6 or 7th largest economy _in the world_. Meanwhile, red and rethuglican controlled states continue year after to be the poorest, with the highest teen birth rates, despite being run by (hypocritical) "moral majority" types. That's what your regressive backwards ideologies gets you 'people', nd those unlucky enough to be affected by conservative politics and policies. Your side is the one "not worth shit", dumbo.

    • @oceanpacific886
      @oceanpacific886 7 лет назад +36

      h xassan keep drinking the koolaid...thats why everybody is moving out?

    • @JJF10101957
      @JJF10101957 7 лет назад +29

      I left California 20 years ago with the Satan like return of Jerry Brown. I'm old enough to remember his father, just another socialist hack. I do miss the weather but that about all!

  • @LibertyAndUnion
    @LibertyAndUnion 8 лет назад +103

    Patton was like the equivalent of Caesar or Pompeii, and every other general was jealous of him.

    • @redcoatgaming4141
      @redcoatgaming4141 8 лет назад +2

      No one is jealous of patton

    • @frankcross6460
      @frankcross6460 8 лет назад

      what makes you say that?

    • @redcoatgaming4141
      @redcoatgaming4141 8 лет назад

      frank Cross Monty was a better commander It did not take him 3 months to take a town

    • @LibertyAndUnion
      @LibertyAndUnion 8 лет назад +4

      Monty took his Army around the flanks of the Arden's , Patton drove the 8th straight into the bulk of the German Blitz, when the 101st was surrounded. They literally ran out of gas because they were moving so fast and fighting non stop very very hard. That's part of the reason it took sometime. An Army cannot move anywhere without fuel and supply. They literally were moving faster than the supply trucks, and they couldn't keep up with them. What are you talking about?!

    • @redcoatgaming4141
      @redcoatgaming4141 8 лет назад +2

      shields817 Patton faced ad hoc battalions did he beat Rommel no Monty did and it is better to flank than drive straight down the middle Monty locked up German ss battalions at Caen while the Yanks faced regular heer troops

  • @IronPiedmont
    @IronPiedmont 8 лет назад +474

    Film footage of George S. Patton narrated by Ronald Reagan.
    America Fuck Yeah!

    • @IronPiedmont
      @IronPiedmont 8 лет назад +10

      matt melendrez Well, I'm an American first, and then I'm a National Socialist.

    • @IronPiedmont
      @IronPiedmont 8 лет назад +8

      matt melendrez Loving one's country and having a certain ideology ins't hypocritical. If I were around when America entered WW2 and my number came up for the draft, I would proudly go to fight.
      Like I said, I'm an American first.

    • @vernonhardapple6983
      @vernonhardapple6983 7 лет назад +2

      :.(......

    • @IronPiedmont
      @IronPiedmont 7 лет назад +14

      matt melendrez Because it represents National Socialism, which matches my beliefs. I believe one should put their country before their ethnicity. Which is why I've always despised phrases such as "African American" or "Anglo American" or "Jewish American". No matter your race or faith, you are an American FIRST.

    • @pennymagoo3920
      @pennymagoo3920 7 лет назад +3

      dutch atlantic 13 you are a coward and collabrator

  • @paulgualtieri1
    @paulgualtieri1 Год назад +2

    My dad fought in WW II in the Battle of the Bulge. War is hell. Patton and the Army and Air Force saved the my USA troops to make it back to their families in America. I am alive because of General Patton. My dad will greet me in heaven but I will seek General George S. Patton to thank him.

  • @Sunbear415
    @Sunbear415 9 лет назад +252

    Two great Americans! President Ronald Reagan and General George Patton.......... Thank God for them.............

    • @davedrolett6890
      @davedrolett6890 9 лет назад +15

      ***** Please tell? What did Pres. Reagan do that was any good for the average working man? He deregulated banks to able them to make predatory loans. Started Outsourcing our manufactured goods outside the country for cheap labor. Thus ultimately putting 7,000,000 workers lost their jobs. Lowered taxes for the rich. Spent more tax payers money than even GW Bush. That's why millions of people believe he was the worse US president ever. But the man could read a monolog excellent. He could convince anyone that wrong was right. I even voted for him once, Yes; I too was sucked into his phony smooth talking dialog. Respectfully Submitted.

    • @Sunbear415
      @Sunbear415 9 лет назад +16

      Real Americans know..... If I have to explain, you are pathetic....

    • @MrChaney4
      @MrChaney4 9 лет назад +5

      dave Drolett few remember the Contra affair.

    • @Sunbear415
      @Sunbear415 9 лет назад +9

      Or how he took full responsibility for it... A man of great character....

    • @packr72
      @packr72 9 лет назад +4

      dave Drolett Raised the Nat'l Debt by 189%, more than Obama and Bush combined.

  • @thegeneral5037
    @thegeneral5037 8 лет назад +10

    "And various towns in Southern Germany who's names I can't pronounce but who's places I have removed."
    We need this man badly.

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад

      Why are you so against Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg?

  • @bobgil3464
    @bobgil3464 2 года назад +66

    Patton a great man and General. Today we have the balless Milley.

    • @azspotfree
      @azspotfree 2 года назад +11

      The General who calls our biggest adversaries and conspires with them against our Commander in Chief.. The same racist guy who says white Americans are the greatest threat to America.I doubt Patton would think much of him

    • @daveriley7199
      @daveriley7199 2 года назад

      You don't even know how to spell his name. Highly informed no doubt.

    • @mikeehrmantrout4120
      @mikeehrmantrout4120 2 года назад +2

      @@azspotfree That would be Commander in Chief. General Milley never said that, which means you are lying. Remove this comment, if you have any character whatsoever.

    • @azspotfree
      @azspotfree 2 года назад +4

      @@mikeehrmantrout4120 Or what, you'll cancel me or get me fired? Your side is completely insane. So Milley didn't call communist China behind Trumps back? He didn't declare that right wing white people were the greatest threat to America? You need to remove your comment if you have any decency or honor whatsoever. I'm sure you do not though. You only know what your leftist masters tell you to think, and you are a mindless soldier for that cause. Don't worry though dude. Google will remove my comment for you. You just keep talking trash at people

    • @danmasters1568
      @danmasters1568 2 года назад +1

      Milley: the treasonous woke idiot

  • @marvin69blastem61
    @marvin69blastem61 2 года назад +2

    Every time I'm going through a tuff time in life I still always do the best I can with what I have were I am. Thankyou.

  • @vincentcase
    @vincentcase 3 года назад +16

    My Dad used to tell me about this speech. He was there and told me had a weird voice. He was right about that.

  • @gartw6381
    @gartw6381 3 года назад +24

    This kind of speech is now banned in the United States.

    • @FightingRimbaud
      @FightingRimbaud 3 года назад

      Gart Williams ad agency exec....Tell Janey I say hello!

  • @michelezeszutko9933
    @michelezeszutko9933 3 года назад +14

    Patton felt that the best war to end a war was to win it.

  • @michaelandcolinspop
    @michaelandcolinspop 2 года назад +69

    General Patton was a pure warrior’s warrior, born for the tactical, operational, and strategic fight, and without a hint of trepidation in charging toward the sound of the guns. He was gruff, irascible, and forthright in his assessments of those above and below him. He was also a genius on the battlefield and a thorn in the side of those who fought against him. General James Mattis has a similar streak.

    • @chazwyman
      @chazwyman Год назад

      HAHA. Its easy for a general to avoid trepidation because it was his men in danger not himself.

    • @johncater7861
      @johncater7861 Год назад +2

      I believe that the German generals held Patton in the highest esteem but smirked at the mention of Montgomery as a foe.

    • @mikecurtis2710
      @mikecurtis2710 Год назад +1

      Patton NEVER Would have quit. I'm sorry, but Mattis's Troops NEEDED Him, and He Resigned. And Left. He had a dispute with the President. That was HIS Problem. Patton didn't quit because of Eisenhower or Bradley.
      NEVER Quit.

    • @chazwyman
      @chazwyman Год назад

      @@johncater7861 That's just part of the Patton myth, mostly generated by himself and the US media.

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад

      @@johncater7861 This belief of yours is incorrect.

  • @markb4078
    @markb4078 2 года назад +4

    My grandfather served under Patton he always told me he was a hell of man and really loved is army broke the mold when he died I sit a wonder what this world would be like if he would have lived through the car crash.

  • @johnadams9044
    @johnadams9044 2 года назад +20

    Why doesn't America have a general like the honorable Gen. George Patton?

    • @paulwilton735
      @paulwilton735 2 года назад +10

      Because America has been taken over by cry babies.

    • @jessebartlett7316
      @jessebartlett7316 2 года назад +2

      @@paulwilton735 Boy isn't that the truth? The amount of adult babies has grown out of control and those who aren't babies are flat out retarded or defective in some way.

    • @marypritchett4617
      @marypritchett4617 2 года назад +1

      John they unfortunately don't make that kind of warrior anymore...

    • @wayneantoniazzi2706
      @wayneantoniazzi2706 2 года назад +3

      @@marypritchett4617 Oh, they do, but it'll take an absolute disaster to bring them out of the woodwork and into positions of responsibility. Admiral Ernest King said it best:
      "When things get tough, and they get scared, then they call on the SOB's like me!"
      Until then, like hires like and mediocrity hires mediocrity.
      With all reverence, God help us.

    • @philhand5830
      @philhand5830 Год назад

      ​@@wayneantoniazzi2706now, THAT'S absolutely true!!! My dear Dad, a U S Navy WWII veteran told me virtually those very words in my early years at home...

  • @gw5309
    @gw5309 3 года назад +13

    There was a gentleman in my hometown who was a dogface in the Third Army. He said that the General was very much as portrayed in the movie. He stated that the scene where Patton was riding, standing up, past the marching troops and states the he was going to “personally shoot that paper-hanging son-of-a-bitch in the ass” was exactly the way he interacted with the troops. They loved him and would have followed him through the gates of hell.

    • @jerryrollins512
      @jerryrollins512 8 месяцев назад

      From what I have learned and heard about the General he would have likely done just that.

  • @luisaguilar5342
    @luisaguilar5342 11 месяцев назад +6

    ONE OF THE VERY BEST GENERAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY. THAN YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!!!

    • @TheRunoben
      @TheRunoben 3 месяца назад

      Macarthur too

    • @luisaguilar5342
      @luisaguilar5342 3 месяца назад

      Yes Sr they were the best of the best, their guts were bigger than them, I did read their biographies……I believe you are veteran, in that case thank you for your service and the sacrifice that comes along…blessings 🙏

  • @maxcohen13
    @maxcohen13 10 лет назад +5

    When my grandfather was one of the many fighting back the Nazis in Northern Africa (DAK), Patton passed through and stayed at his camp's officer's quarters. One night my Grandfather was walking through the hallways and witnessed two drunk soldiers fooling around who decided to go to Patton's room. Now, Patton was known for putting his boots, helmet, and swagger stick just outside his door as he slept. One of these two drunk guys thought it would be funny to take them and parade around pretending to be the general. The other guy laughed as this dummy stomped around in a mocking fashion.
    Then the door to Patton's room opened.
    The two men freaked out as the general walked out of his room in his robe. They fell in line and Patton approached the one who had his gear on.
    "Son, are those my things?" Patton calmly asks.
    "Y...y..yes sir."
    "Could you kindly take them off and put them back where you found them?"
    He put the items back as neatly as he could and proceeded to stand back at attention. As Patton turned to see that his things were indeed back where he put them, he pulled his own arm back, made a fist, and punched the drunk fool square in the face who then fell down in a crumpled heap. Then he turned to the other drunk:
    "When your lady friend wakes up, tell him not to take things that don't belong to him."
    He Patton casually turned around and went back into his room and shut the door, and my grandfather - who saw the whole thing - had a story to tell his grandchildren.

  • @Merlinever
    @Merlinever 3 года назад +4

    Gen. Patton didn't die of an "automobile accident".
    He was assassinated in a U.S. hospital following the 'accident' by a combined effort of the the Russians and our own government.
    Immediately after his death, all the hospital records olf his injuries, treatment and condition vanished without a trace and no investigation was ever undertaken.
    Someone wrote a book about this but I can't remember the author or the title.
    However, it would be worth while to look it up and read it.

    • @philhand5830
      @philhand5830 Год назад

      I saw the movie, "The Last Days of Patton!" THAT one hurt!!!! Still does!!!

    • @Merlinever
      @Merlinever Год назад

      @@philhand5830: Patton was murdered on the orders of our government by the Russians while he was recovering in a hospital from injuries suffered in an 'accident' that was planned.
      Coincidentally, Rommel, Germany's WW II top tank commander, was forced to commit suicide by his government when he was suspected of being connected to those who tried to assassinate Hitler
      Seems like their are evil people of all nationalities.

  • @markmccummins8049
    @markmccummins8049 3 года назад +11

    Truly one of our finest generals. And this was narrated by a man who would be one of our greatest presidents. Recognise that voice? It was Ronald Reagan.

    • @yucatansuckaman5726
      @yucatansuckaman5726 3 года назад

      Wtf it is!!!!! Thats awesome!

    • @darrengilbert7438
      @darrengilbert7438 Год назад

      And Reagan was our finest President

    • @p39483
      @p39483 Год назад +1

      ​@@darrengilbert7438Trump was. Both great men: Trump and Patton.

  • @eugenedegeorge5084
    @eugenedegeorge5084 2 года назад +18

    When you have to fight a brutal enemy, you need a person like General Patton to lead that charge. I shudder to think who will do that now as we face China.

    • @mrbubetube
      @mrbubetube 2 года назад +3

      what do you mean "face China"??? the US has more dependence on China for its products and many other resources than any other country. If it wasn't for China, you couldn't even buy a snowblower!

    • @maddog4431
      @maddog4431 2 года назад +2

      @@mrbubetube Correct Americans are totally lost we have no idea the shit storm that awaits us.

    • @hurri7720
      @hurri7720 2 года назад

      No you need businessmen and diplomats and you need to fix your education system asap.

    • @eugenedegeorge5084
      @eugenedegeorge5084 2 года назад

      @@hurri7720 Agreed. I have no problem with that.I was actually thinking if we got into an all-out war with China-- which is entirely possible.

    • @blakefrazier9991
      @blakefrazier9991 2 года назад

      @@maddog4431 what shit storm and what would cause it?

  • @Silverfoxxee
    @Silverfoxxee 9 лет назад +238

    Bullshit, Patton was murdered.

    • @Samantha1970
      @Samantha1970 8 лет назад +6

      +Silverfoxxee yes, everyone who knows history knows this.

    • @MrEricOgren
      @MrEricOgren 8 лет назад +3

      +John Aryan sounds like you're still a little salty about patton kicking the shit out of your heroes.

    • @arbiterg
      @arbiterg 8 лет назад +3

      +William Murray Patton actually respected Islam, he even read the whole Koran during the north African campaign and wrote to his wife that he loved it and respected Islam very much, so your comment is invalid. Fuck Patton!

    • @gmakepiece
      @gmakepiece 8 лет назад +1

      +ArbiterG - George Wow...that's a shocking insight. A deluded dimmi Patton! What a disturbing thought...

    • @davedrolett6890
      @davedrolett6890 8 лет назад +6

      +Silverfoxxee Your damn right! Gen. Patton's business was to murder, crush or kill any Nazi combatant in his path. This is called war.

  • @slick247
    @slick247 3 года назад +11

    Thank God for General Patton, what a true legend! He cut the war short for us all & saved the world & millions more lives, we all owe him gratitude & thanks for our free world we live in now. God Bless our General ✌🏻🙏🏻

    • @manfredconnor3194
      @manfredconnor3194 Год назад

      Why didn't God just prevent the war?

    • @sateki5289
      @sateki5289 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@manfredconnor3194We have free will please God help this dumb bastard

  • @The_Lunch_Man
    @The_Lunch_Man 8 лет назад +198

    He was assassinated

    • @tenacious645
      @tenacious645 8 лет назад +7

      It certainly seem like it... I mean he died in a low impact crash that didn't even hurt anyone else??? Either god only wanted him, Rommel, FDR, Hitler, and Mousillini only for ww2, or someone took his ass out.

    • @The_Lunch_Man
      @The_Lunch_Man 8 лет назад +21

      tenacious645 look at the state of the US now. It's a police state. Patton tried to warn us, and he was killed for it. Pretty similar to JFK

    • @The_Lunch_Man
      @The_Lunch_Man 8 лет назад +14

      tenacious645 he would have been able to rally the Army against this police state because his men were loyal to him.

    • @heartoftenacity1479
      @heartoftenacity1479 7 лет назад

      1M0RTAL_CH1CKEN contrary to popular belief Patton wouldnt have the charisma nor the resources to even try something that crazy .

    • @bluewendigo672
      @bluewendigo672 5 лет назад +4

      Probably by jews.

  • @UltraKryptonian
    @UltraKryptonian 2 года назад +9

    I used to love going to the Patton Museum on Fort Knox, back when the Armor center was there! It had lots of cool stuff there, including a German King Tiger tank.

  • @dduelm
    @dduelm 8 лет назад +355

    The narrator is Ronald Reagan. Pretty cool!

    • @carlgould5864
      @carlgould5864 6 лет назад +26

      Patton would fully have approved of PRESIDENT Reagan.

    • @jsdoggg96
      @jsdoggg96 6 лет назад +14

      Really? Reagan was just a corporate puppet. One of our worst presidents ever!!!

    • @alexhanson3730
      @alexhanson3730 6 лет назад +37

      Ronald Reagan narrating a video about George Patton...two of the most iconic Americans ever. Love it!

    • @mebsrea
      @mebsrea 5 лет назад +1

      I thought it sounded like him!

    • @aspe7187
      @aspe7187 5 лет назад +4

      Red Ronnie, putting in some apprenticeship hours no doubt. All Presidents are tools for the Zionists. Nazi = National Zionist. Still running the show today.

  • @Cowboyssuckcock100
    @Cowboyssuckcock100 8 лет назад +92

    "That crazy Cowboy General" : ADOLF HITLER of Patton

    • @QuintTheSharker
      @QuintTheSharker 8 лет назад +17

      There was a great respect of Patton by the German military command, just as Patton had a great respect for Rommel.

    • @carlosvargas2907
      @carlosvargas2907 8 лет назад +1

      +TheMad Mexican When?

  • @sheilahill2201
    @sheilahill2201 8 лет назад +259

    Rest in Peace, General Patton.
    And from a very grateful America...Thank you once again.

  • @nextsongs4god480
    @nextsongs4god480 6 лет назад +64

    “I told Ike we oughta drive those tanks all the way to Moscow!”

  • @richardsigler3094
    @richardsigler3094 Год назад +18

    A documentary about one of the greatest generals of all time narrated by one of the greatest leaders of all time. I love it!

    • @philgoodpaster3161
      @philgoodpaster3161 Год назад

      AMEN!👍

    • @hansborne4929
      @hansborne4929 11 месяцев назад

      I think Rommel and Patton were really the Greatest. If they If they had fought together against Stalin, we would live in a better World and J.F.K. would not have been killed.

  • @Marakesh7
    @Marakesh7 8 лет назад +10

    A great general. We need more like him today.

  • @lukerooney2024
    @lukerooney2024 7 лет назад +84

    Reagan taking about Patton unbelievable a match made in heaven. All we need is mattis and then you have the holy trinity.

    • @jimchumley6568
      @jimchumley6568 6 лет назад

      Luke Rooney Not quite.

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 5 лет назад +1

      @Hissam Ullah Well what do you know!
      A Muslim who hates Jews. Like that’s anything new.

    • @bigfloppaism996
      @bigfloppaism996 5 лет назад +1

      @@Lobsterwithinternet it's not the "the Jews" it's the Zionists, educate yourself

    • @patrickt6642
      @patrickt6642 3 года назад

      I was thinking of john Wayne as the third one.if you get a chance watch the Wayne tv special on patriotism.the speech he gives at end resonates today has it did in 1970.

  • @pilsnrimgaard2507
    @pilsnrimgaard2507 8 лет назад +132

    I cringe at the thought of what the world would look like today had we had the patsy pansy limp wristed politicians of today in charge of the US military of that era. I would most likely be writing this in German or Japanese. George S Patton was the founding father of what we have now as modern armor vehicles. We have so much to be grateful of his and millions of men foreign and domestic who gave their last breath defeating the evils of Fascism and imperialism. Long live G.S. Patton the ultimate ALPHA!

    • @anotherdamnmole
      @anotherdamnmole 8 лет назад +3

      oh shut the fuck up, you revisionist moron.

    • @omarsabih
      @omarsabih 8 лет назад

      We are trying to leave the days of assholes behind. There will never be a war like WW2, that's the hope. If we learned anything from this madness, we must resolve our differences on the discussion table.

    • @p.khertzog1019
      @p.khertzog1019 7 лет назад +9

      Except that Patton wanted to rearm the Germans and fight the Communists. He couldn't have thought fascism was that evil if he was willing to help them.
      "We fought the wrong enemy." - George Patton

    • @alex29443
      @alex29443 7 лет назад +1

      emmm - so britain had nothing to do with it? Pretty sure they came up with the tanks man, and if we're being honest, between 1910-1943, the rest of the world was playing catch-up with Germany in terms of military prowess and technological sophistication.
      America is the global imperial hegemony (at least for now) you don't need to revise history on top of that.

    • @pilsnrimgaard2507
      @pilsnrimgaard2507 7 лет назад

      And who won.....exactly!

  • @Joecms
    @Joecms 2 года назад +21

    Patton. We needed him then and now. Awesome General.

  • @alanjohnson9962
    @alanjohnson9962 5 лет назад +4

    I am so proud to have been in a war that I had no idea of what War Was About, and I That Almighty God that I am Able to Thank all Veterans for what the Do Past, Present And Future. May God Bless You All.

  • @MichaelJohnson-kx3ln
    @MichaelJohnson-kx3ln 5 лет назад +10

    My god, we need more men like that more than ever today. My Grandfather was in WW2 European Theatre. Men of those times were far tougher, than today's generals & admirals...VOTE 4 IKE! OR PATTON FOR PRESIDENT!

  • @rhysnichols8608
    @rhysnichols8608 6 лет назад +47

    He was a smart man not influenced by wealth unlike Roosevelt and Churchill

    • @flyboy152
      @flyboy152 4 года назад +4

      Not influenced by wealth? WTF are you babbling about? He was one of the richest officers in the US Army, possibly richer than either of those you named.

    • @hankkingsley2976
      @hankkingsley2976 4 года назад +5

      @@flyboy152 An independent and not beholden to those holding the purse strings.

    • @hankkingsley2976
      @hankkingsley2976 4 года назад +1

      Sound familiar?

    • @rhysnichols8608
      @rhysnichols8608 4 года назад +9

      flyboy152
      He wasn’t a bitch for the Jews is what we’re saying. Unlike Churchill and Roosevelt

    • @rhysnichols8608
      @rhysnichols8608 4 года назад +2

      Horatio Nelson
      Yeah then he got bought off in 1935 and became a traitor

  • @dougtaylor7724
    @dougtaylor7724 Год назад +1

    General Patton was instrumental in giving my Dads company a presidential citation. Dad did not know he had received the honor until 1966.
    My Father spoke very highly of the General. He told me of a soldier in his outfit that was directing traffic at an intersection. This guy was 6 foot 4 and had a raincoat that would fit a 5 foot 6 guy. The General stopped his staff car and went up to the soldier and demanded to know why he was dressed so shabby. He told the General that he was issued the short coat. Patton said something like that was no way for an American soldier to dress. Patton gave the soldier a longer coat he himself was wearing, took the soldiers shorter coat and told him to go back to directing traffic now that he was properly dressed.
    That is who George Patton was.