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Before he was the leather bomber jacket-wearing, soldier-slapping 'Old Blood and Guts' commander of the fictitious First US Army Group and the very real US Seventh and Third Armies, George Patton was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute and West Point. He studied fencing, helped design the 1913 Pattern US Cavalry saber, and competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in modern pentathlon.
His military service started with participation in the US expedition against Pancho Villa. Sent over to France with the American Expeditionary Force, he transferred from the cavalry to America's first tank unit. Leading from the front on a Renault FT-17 tank, he took a bullet but kept on urging his force forward. During the Interbellum, he helped formulate armored tactics and established the US Army's armored warfare doctrine.
Commanding 2nd Armored Division at the outbreak of WW2, he was promoted to a corps command and rehabilitated the demoralized II Corps. Commanding 7th Army in Sicily, he competed with British General Montgomery in the effort to take the island before moving on to the Italian Campaign.
Relieved of command after all that slapping, he was part of Operation Fortitude, the Allied maskirovka campaign to trick the Germans into thinking that the Allies would be landing in Pas de Calais, rather than at Normandy. Patton was put in charge, and his reputation kept German eyes on the Calais area until well after the Normandy operation was underway. After that, Patton led 3rd Army on the breakout from the Normandy area on a wild charge southwest, then hooking east to the Seine, helping to destroy most German resistance in France. After crossing the Rhine River, he led 3rd Army as far as Prague before the war ended.
He died of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure after a low-speed vehicle crash gave him a compression fracture of his spine, rendering him paralyzed. He is buried in a US military cemetery in Luxembourg.
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OF COURSE he's depicted as a bull terrier! What else? If you know, you know.
And I wanted him drawn as a younger man, in his WW1 AEF uniform. When
rabbi-tom suggested jokingly that he put a tiara on him, I laughed and said I'd reserve that for MacArthur. At least Patton backed up his words and histrionics with action.
George Patton III © America! Fuck yeah!
Art by rabbi-tom
Before he was the leather bomber jacket-wearing, soldier-slapping 'Old Blood and Guts' commander of the fictitious First US Army Group and the very real US Seventh and Third Armies, George Patton was a cadet at Virginia Military Institute and West Point. He studied fencing, helped design the 1913 Pattern US Cavalry saber, and competed in the 1912 Olympic Games in modern pentathlon.
His military service started with participation in the US expedition against Pancho Villa. Sent over to France with the American Expeditionary Force, he transferred from the cavalry to America's first tank unit. Leading from the front on a Renault FT-17 tank, he took a bullet but kept on urging his force forward. During the Interbellum, he helped formulate armored tactics and established the US Army's armored warfare doctrine.
Commanding 2nd Armored Division at the outbreak of WW2, he was promoted to a corps command and rehabilitated the demoralized II Corps. Commanding 7th Army in Sicily, he competed with British General Montgomery in the effort to take the island before moving on to the Italian Campaign.
Relieved of command after all that slapping, he was part of Operation Fortitude, the Allied maskirovka campaign to trick the Germans into thinking that the Allies would be landing in Pas de Calais, rather than at Normandy. Patton was put in charge, and his reputation kept German eyes on the Calais area until well after the Normandy operation was underway. After that, Patton led 3rd Army on the breakout from the Normandy area on a wild charge southwest, then hooking east to the Seine, helping to destroy most German resistance in France. After crossing the Rhine River, he led 3rd Army as far as Prague before the war ended.
He died of pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure after a low-speed vehicle crash gave him a compression fracture of his spine, rendering him paralyzed. He is buried in a US military cemetery in Luxembourg.
***
OF COURSE he's depicted as a bull terrier! What else? If you know, you know.
And I wanted him drawn as a younger man, in his WW1 AEF uniform. When
rabbi-tom suggested jokingly that he put a tiara on him, I laughed and said I'd reserve that for MacArthur. At least Patton backed up his words and histrionics with action.George Patton III © America! Fuck yeah!
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rabbi-tom
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Bull Terrier
Size 741 x 1022px
File Size 930.7 kB
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