Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer was the regiment's first permanent commander and, like such generals as George S. Patton and Terry De La Mesa Allen in their rise to military prominence, Custer was a believer in blood and guts warfare.

His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton, Sereno E. Brett, and other senior tank leaders ; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented offensive tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors who considered the new approach too radical and preferred the tank continue to be used in a strictly supportive role for the infantry.

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

His next film, Patton was a major success for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Directors Guild of America Award for Best Director.

Running back Ricky Patton was the top rusher on the team with 543 yards and 4 touchdowns, while also catching 27 passes for 195 yards.

Part of the " Fortitude " plan was intended to convince the Germans that a fictitious formation, First U. S. Army Group comprising 11 divisions ( 150, 000 men ) commanded by General George Patton, was stationed in the south and east of Britain.

In late 1968, General Abrams met with Colonel George S. Patton IV-the son of World War II General Patton-who was the regimental commander of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment ( 11th ACR Blackhorse ), the only full regiment of cavalry in Vietnam.

This was largely due to the high casualty rate of both Sheridans and their crews as mines and rocket-propelled grenades ( RPGs ) that would only damage an M48 Patton tank, would destroy the Sheridan and kill or wound most, if not all, of its crew.

Although an average M48 Patton crew could fire as many as seventeen 90mm shells during a " mad minute " ( sixty seconds with all guns firing-on command ), the Sheridan was known to put out only two 152mm shells during the same time frame.

Pat Patton, heretofore Tracy's rather buffoonish partner, was promoted to police chief in Brandon's place.

Gould later explained this seemingly improbable turn of events by stating that, within the strip's reality, Tracy was offered the job first but had declined, personally recommending Patton instead.

George Smith Patton, Jr. ( November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945 ) was an officer in the United States Army best known for his leadership as a general during World War II.

He was on the U. S. 1912 Olympic pentathlon team and also designed the U. S. Cavalry's last combat saber: the " Patton Saber " ( the M-1913 ).

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

Although he was actually the third George Smith Patton after his grandfather, he was called Junior.

John M. Patton, a great-grandfather, was a lawyer and politician who had served as acting governor of Virginia.

Colonel George S. Patton, his grandfather, was killed during the Battle of Opequon.

The Confederate Congress had promoted Colonel Patton to brigadier general ; however, at the time, he had already died of battle wounds, so that promotion was never official.

The second George Smith Patton ( born George William Patton in 1856, changing his name to honor his late father in 1868 ) was one of four children.

Seeking the greatest swordsman in Europe to study with, Patton was told the " beau sabreur " of the French Army would be the one.

Former Humble Oil manager Edward L. Patton was put in charge of the new company and began to lobby strongly in favor of an Alaska Native claims settlement to resolve the disputes over the pipeline right of way.

He split the group again, leaving William Brahe in charge of the depôt, with Dost Mahomet, William Patton and Thomas McDonough.

The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered the cavalry to charge them — an action which prompted the spectators to yell, " Shame!

* Numbuh 60 / Patton Drilovsky ( voiced by Matt Levin )-a high-ranking Canadian operative and the drill sergeant stationed at the Kids Next Door Arctic Base who's in charge of training new recruits to the Kids Next Door Organization.

Although Patton was in charge of 3rd Army during the battle, this army was part of a much larger American force in the south.

Patton personally led a cavalry charge ( with sabers drawn ) into the mass of homeless people, and several hundred rounds of vomit gas were launched at the marchers.

Colonel Loren Albert Ayers, known to his men as " Little Patton ," was in charge of gathering two drivers for every truck, obtaining special equipment, and training port battalion personnel as drivers for long hauls.

Shortly after his arrival at Champlieu, the British launched what was then the largest armoured attack of the war at the Battle of Cambrai, and at the conclusion of his tour, on December 1, Patton went to Albert, from Cambrai, to be briefed on the recent attack by the chief of staff of the British Tank Corps, Colonel J. F. C. Fuller.

Patton received his first ten tanks on March 23, 1918 at the Tank School and Centre, which he commanded, at Langres, Haute-Marne département.

" However, in the scene where Patton is woken by his aides with news that Rommel's attack is in progress, the camera focuses on a book on Patton's bedside table which is entitled " The Tank in Attack ", a book which Rommel had planned to write but never completed.

The lineage of the M26 continued with the M47 Patton, and was reflected in the new designs of the later M48 Patton and M60 Combat Tank.

Two battalions detached from the 2nd Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, the 6th Medium and 64th Heavy Tank Battalions, were fully equipped with M46 Patton tanks.

On 2 April 1953, the Ordnance Technical Committee Minutes ( OTCM ) order # 34765 standardized the last of the Patton series tanks as the 90mm Gun Tank M48 Patton.

* Hunnicutt, R. P. " Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank.

* Hunnicutt, R. P. " Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank.

The Patton Tank family ( here a Belgian M46 Patton | M46 ) was the direct result of the revival of the late 1940s US armament modernization program framed by the MDAA

As a result, by September 1918, Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions-144 French-built FT-17 light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th battalions of the United States Tank Corps-at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient.

* M60 Patton Tank

* Hunnicutt, R. P. " Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank.

On 7 November 1950, the US Ordnance Committee Minutes ( OCM ), order # 33476, ceased utilizing the terms heavy, medium, and light tanks and redesignated tanks by the gun system, e. g. 90 mm Gun Tank M48 Patton, etc.

" Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank.

In 2001 a glass artist named Randy Grubb made the Blastolene Special with a Continental AV1790-5B ( A huge engine that weighs the same as a Volkswagen Beetle ) used in a 51-ton M47 Patton Tank back in the 1950s, a Greyhound bus transmission and metal for the body.

It is said the idea was borrowed from the French crewmen encountered during World War I when then-Captain George S. Patton, Jr. established the United States Tank Corps.

Though the U. S. had established the Tank Corps in WWI using French Renault FT ( and Six Ton Model 1917 tanks, copies of Renault FTs ) and British MK tanks, and some officers like Dwight D. Eisenhower and George S. Patton, Jr. emerged from that war initially as avid proponents of continuing and developing an American armoured force, the rapid reduction of the forces and apathy and even antipathy towards funding and maintaining armed forces in the inter-war years led to relative stagnation of armoured doctrine in the United States.

* Hunnicutt, R. P. Patton: A History of the American Main Battle Tank.

" Retired NBA Hall-of-Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, author of Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes, agreed that although Patton was a bigot like most, the fact remains that he did lend his name to the advancement of blacks in the military at the time, unlike most other military officers ( Patton did prevent a black soldier from being lynched while serving as commander of a fort in El Paso before the war .).

*** VII Tank Battalion with M47 Patton