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.

Montgomery therefore took the initiative to meet with Patton in an attempt to work out a coordinated campaign.

When General Eisenhower learned of the matter, he ordered Patton to make amends, after which, it was reported, " Patton's conduct then became as generous as it had been furious ," and he apologized to the soldier " and to all those present at the time ," The news reporters who had sent their report to Bedell Smith demanded that Patton be fired in exchange for killing the story, a demand which Eisenhower refused.

Guessing the intent of the Allied command meeting, Patton ordered his staff to make three separate operational contingency orders to disengage elements of the Third Army from its present position and begin offensive operations toward several objectives in the area of the Bulge occupied by German forces.

Still unconvinced, Eisenhower ordered Patton to attack the morning of December 22, using at least three divisions.

Desiring good weather for his advance, which would permit close ground support by USAAF tactical aircraft, Patton ordered the Third Army chaplain, Colonel James O ' Neill, to compose a suitable prayer: " Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend.

In the US sector, on 11 July, Patton ordered his reserve parachute troops from the 504th PIR of the 82nd Airborne to drop and reinforce the centre.

The next day, Third Army commander General George Patton warned III Corps that it would likely be ordered to assist.

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!

After liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp, Patton ordered the entire population of the nearby city of Weimar to go through it and observe the conditions ; Cooper also viewed the camp at that time.

The next day, although the U. S. VIII Corps continued to advance west through Brittany toward the ports of Brest and Lorient, Bradley ordered Patton to drive eastward with the main body of the U. S. Third Army, around the open German flank and into the German rear areas.

William B. Bate and J. Patton Anderson were ordered to move half of their divisions to the crest, leaving the remainder in the rifle pits along the base.

When the promised resupply by air fails, Patton is ordered to escape by air and CSA resistance near Pittsburgh collapses.

Middleton consistently defended Mauldin, but was verbally ordered by Patton to get rid of Mauldin and his cartoons.

Lee ordered a frontal assault that was vigorously led by J. Patton Anderson.

" Love and Theft is, as the title implies, a kind of homage ," writes Kot, " never more so than on ' High Water ( for Charley Patton ),' in which Dylan draws a sweeping portrait of the South's racial history, with the unsung blues singer as a symbol of the region's cultural richness and ingrained social cruelties.

* In 2011, Paula Patton, Laz Alonso, and Angela Bassett star in the film Jumping the Broom, wherein two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

Shortly after the release of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ), Eric Idle flippantly suggested that the title of the Pythons ' forthcoming feature would be Jesus Christ – Lust for Glory ( a play on the UK title for the 1970 American film Patton ).

* December 21 – General George S. Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9.

The future General Patton married Beatrice Banning Ayer ( January 12, 1886 – September 30, 1953 ), the daughter of wealthy textile baron Frederick Ayer, on May 26, 1910.

In the summer of 1913, after he advised the Ordnance Department on sword redesign, Patton was allowed to return to Saumur to study once again under Cléry.

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.

On September 26, 1918, Patton was wounded in the left leg while leading six men and a tank in an attack on German machine guns near the town of Cheppy during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

While on duty in Washington, D. C., in 1919, Patton met Dwight D. Eisenhower, who would play an enormous role in Patton's future career.

Patton also wrote professional articles on tank and armored car tactics, suggesting new methods for their use.

During his time in Hawaii, Patton was part of the military units responsible for the defense of the islands, and specifically wrote a defense plan, called " Surprise ", anticipating an air raid against Pearl Harbor – 10 years before the attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941.

In response to a question on whether the Third Army's rapid offensive across France should be slowed to reduce the number of U. S. casualties, Patton replied " Whenever you slow anything down, you waste human lives.

In November 1942, Major General Patton commanded the Western Task Force of the U. S. Army, which landed on the coast of Vichy French-held Morocco in Operation Torch for the North African Campaign.

On August 3, Patton was visiting wounded patients from the recent Sicilian campaign at the 15th Evacuation Hospital near Nicosia when he encountered 27-year-old Private Charles H. Kuhl of the 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, sitting slouched on a stool midway through a tent ward filled with injured soldiers.

Although the Kuhl incident received the most publicity, Patton slapped and berated a second soldier, Private Paul G. Bennett of C Battery, 17th Field Artillery, 1st Infantry Division, under similar circumstances on August 10, 1943 at the 93rd Evacuation Hospital.

This decision was not based on the slapping incident alone, but also on confirmed intelligence that the Germans believed Patton would be leading the Allied assault into Nazi-held territory.

Following the Normandy invasion, Patton was placed in command of the U. S. Third Army, which was on the extreme right ( west ) of the Allied land forces.

" Patton then clarified that he had already worked up an operational order for a counterattack by three full divisions on December 21, then only 48 hours away.

In all, Patton would reposition six full divisions ( including his 3rd and 12th Army Corps ) from their positions on the Saar front along a line stretching from Bastogne to Diekirch to Echternach.

" When the weather cleared soon after, Patton awarded O ' Neill a Bronze Star on the spot.