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Patton was born and spent the first half of his childhood in Savannah, Georgia, attending Herschel V. Jenkins High School before moving to Atlanta with his Aunt Renne.
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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.
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* James Patton Anderson, ( 1822 – 1873 ), born in Franklin County, Confederate Army general
The Delta blues fiddler, Henry " Son " Sims, who worked with Charlie Patton and Muddy Waters, was born in Anguilla in August 1890.
* Roman Catholic Archbishop Rembert Weakland of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee was born in Patton
Michael Allan " Mike " Patton ( born January 27, 1968 ) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and actor, best known as the lead singer of the experimental rock / alternative metal band Faith No More.
Patton was born and raised in Eureka, California, where he formed Mr. Bungle, with Trey Spruance and Trevor Dunn, in 1984.
The Brownlows ' younger son, James Patton Brownlow, born December 17, 1842 at Jonesborough, Tennessee, also was an officer in the Union Army.
Carper was born in Beckley, West Virginia, the son of Mary Jean ( née Patton ) and Wallace Richard Carper.
Antwan André Patton ( born February 1, 1975 ), better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000.
Melvin Emery " Mel " Patton ( born November 16, 1924 ) is an American track and field athlete, who won two gold medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
William Rankin " Will " Patton ( born June 14, 1954 ) is an American actor.
Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of three children.
Forrest was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the son of Nathan Bedford Forrest II and Mattie Patterson ( Patton ).
Patton was born July 10, 1809, in Russell County, Virginia.
John Patton was born March 1, 1822 in the county of County Down, Ireland, the son of james and Eliza Patton.
Patton was born in Covington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved to Curwensville, Pennsylvania in 1828.
Patton, the son of John Patton and the brother of Charles Emory Patton, was born in Curwensville, Pennsylvania.
Patton was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania and attended the public schools there.
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Another World War II-era student of Liddell Hart's writings about Sherman was George S. Patton, who "' spent a long vacation studying Sherman's campaigns on the ground in Georgia and the Carolinas, with the aid of Hart's book '" and later "' carried out his plans, in super-Sherman style '".
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Among the first high-profile experts were John Benson, Alex Patton and Ron Shandler.
Patton published his first book (' Patton's 1989 Fantasy Baseball League Price Guide ") in 1989 and his dollar values were included in USA Today Baseball Weekly's fantasy annual throughout the 1990s.
Brando won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but turned down the Oscar, becoming the second actor to refuse a Best Actor award ( the first being George C. Scott for Patton ).
In 1930, House made his first recordings for Paramount Records during a session for Charlie Patton.
He then moved to Lula, Mississippi, where he first met Charlie Patton and Willie Brown ( around this same time, he also met Robert Johnson ).
All were shot at by Patton at some point, who first knocked down a horse under a rider at close range with a pistol shot, causing that rider to be killed shortly after by fire from several men, including Patton.
Patton received his first ten tanks on March 23, 1918 at the Tank School and Centre, which he commanded, at Langres, Haute-Marne département.
From his first days as a commander, Patton strongly emphasized the need for armored forces to stay in constant contact with the enemy, concluding that aggressive, fast-moving mechanized and armored forces disrupted enemy defensive preparations while presenting less of a target to enemy gunners.
Patton was one of the first American commanders in World War II to make full use of light Army observation aircraft to visit friendly troop forces as well as independently reconnoiter enemy positions.
Patton, not a friend of the American Forces Network in the first place, was shaving at the time and actually cut himself on hearing the broadcast.
In 1942, Eisenhower was promoted to major general and, just a few months later, to lieutenant general – outranking Patton for the first time.
George C. Scott reprised the role 16 years after his Academy Award winning performance in a made-for-television titled The Last Days of Patton, which was first broadcast on September 14, 1986, on CBS.
During the first 42 years of tobacco litigation ( between 1954 and 1996 ) the industry maintained a clean record in litigation thanks to tactics described in a R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company internal memo as " the way we won these cases, to paraphrase Gen. Patton, is not by spending all of Reynolds ' money, but by making the other son of a bitch spend all of his.
The first mayor of the city of San Marino was George S. Patton, Senior.
* Greg Patton, quarterback at Dartmouth College, broke the single-game rushing record in his first varsity appearance
The first hotel was the Cottage House built by Samuel Patton.
Chanute built the railroad that made Fairbury possible, but did so against the will of Patton, Fairbury's first citizen.
* John Sparks Patton, educator from Claiborne Parish who first advocated taxpayer-funded school textbooks ; former member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission
Lisbon was the birthplace of another Louisiana educator, John Sparks Patton, who once lost a race for state superintendent to T. H. Harris and is remembered as the first advocate of taxpayer-funded school textbooks.
General George S. Patton was one of the first to recommend this practice.
Several opponents were noted for their particular skill in the event with Åke Grönhagen of Sweden coming first with 24 wins, Jean de Mas Latrie of France second with 23, Sidney Stranne of Sweden in third with 21 and Patton of the United States close behind with 20.
In 2005, he published Men of War, the first single volume dual military biography of Patton and Rommel.
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