{"id":2310198,"date":"2024-07-27T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2310198"},"modified":"2024-07-27T12:53:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T16:53:18","slug":"gen-pattons-army-born-80-years-ago-leads-allied-break-out-from-normandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-pattons-army-born-80-years-ago-leads-allied-break-out-from-normandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Patton&#8217;s Army Born 80 Years Ago, Leads Allied Break Out From Normandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgen-pattons-army-born-80-years-ago-leads-allied-break-out-from-normandy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2310198&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>It looks like you&#8217;ve provided a detailed account of General George S. Patton Jr.&#8217;s significant contributions during World War II, particularly highlighting Operation \u200bCOBRA and the Battle of the Bulge. Patton&#8217;s tactics and leadership were crucial in facilitating rapid advances against German forces, and \u2064his \u200demphasis\u2064 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cultural-appropriation-is-good\/\" title=\"\u2018Cultural Appropriation\u2019 Is Good\">constant movement<\/a> was key to\u2063 his strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Would you like me\u200c to help summarize \u200bthe \u200ckey events, expand on a particular aspect of Patton&#8217;s \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-live-there-is-more-than-enough-evidence-in-the-public-now-to-more-than-reverse-the-election-in-at-least-5-states-video\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell LIVE: \u201cThere Is More than Enough Evidence in the Public Now to More than Reverse the Election in at Least 5 States\u201d (VIDEO)\">military career<\/a>, or provide additional historical context?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section>\n<p>General George S. Patton&rsquo;s Third Army came to life in Europe this week back in 1944 and played a pivotal role in the Allies&rsquo; breakout from the Normandy region of northern France.<\/p>\n<p>It had been slow going in the weeks following the Allies&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/d-day-75-years-ago-american-heroes-helped-liberate-suffering-humanity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">successful D-Day landings<\/a> on the beaches of Normandy.<\/p>\n<p>The Allied powers &mdash; the United States, Great Britain and Canada &mdash; did not anticipate how fierce the German resistance would be.<\/p>\n<p>And the countryside, with its ancient fields proved very advantageous for Nazi defenders.<\/p>\n<p>Patton described the &ldquo;bocage&rdquo; country in his book &ldquo;War As I Knew It&rdquo; as &ldquo;composed of innumerable small fields separated by banks of earth from four to six feet high surmounted by hedges. These form ideal delaying positions for infantry.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>  <script> \t\t\t\tif( ! getCookie( 'ff_subbed' ) ) if( typeof FFADS.replace_ict !='undefined' ) if( FFADS.replace_ict ) eval( FFADS.replace_ict ); \t\t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Allied troops in Normandy face serious obstacles from French hedgerows, dense network giving ideal cover to Germans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxOgtCqHXm\">pic.twitter.com\/FxOgtCqHXm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Second World War tweets from 1940 (@RealTimeWWII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealTimeWWII\/status\/752259764512550912?\">July 10, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Fifty days after D-Day, the Allies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-patton-launched-historic-campaign-defeat-nazi-germany-75-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were only about 20 to 30 miles inland<\/a>, a point they had hoped to be just five days after the landings. Further, taking the territory they won had come at a cost of 122,000 casualties, Rick Atkinson records in his book, &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Guns-Last-Light-1944-1945-Liberation\/dp\/0805062904\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zDRiMXNdbErK-aQJut8B9E740JqrAbq7HFolyYTfQTA.1fjQhu-JD2Pg1_zocQlhRtIy0_BVQ75aPI04FR-lJTw&amp;qid=1722043322&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guns at Last Light.<\/a>&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Patton was about to help change all that, turning the Allied crawl into a dash across northwest Europe to the German border.<\/p>\n<p>The general had been sidelined the previous eleven months after the completion of his operations in Sicily.<\/p>\n<p>By July 1944, Patton was like a highly taut spring. &ldquo;I was obsessed with the belief the war would end before I got into it,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The war leader was about to get his chance to get back in the fight.<\/p>\n<p>On July 25, the Allies launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-patton-launched-historic-campaign-defeat-nazi-germany-75-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Cobra<\/a>, which first involved the concentrated bombing of an area of land on the German front lines in Normandy about 3.5 miles long by nearly 1.5 miles deep.<\/p>\n<p>According to Atkinson, 2,500 Allied bombers together dropped approximately 11,000 bombs per square mile, making it one of the &ldquo;greatest concentrations of killing power in the history of warfare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Allies quickly rolled into the breach in German lines in what became known as the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.normandie-tourisme.fr\/discover\/history\/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy\/the-first-towns-to-be-liberated\/saint-lo-destruction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> breakout at Saint-L&ocirc;<\/a>, a town in Normandy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Operation Cobra was a resounding success for the Allied forces on their path to liberating France in the summer of 1944, and one of the key turning-points in the history of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WWII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WWII<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the battle map from the 15-page special published in our April issue: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Sx2k7NInbj\">https:\/\/t.co\/Sx2k7NInbj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Military History Matters (@MilHistMag) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MilHistMag\/status\/1156634911572484096?\">July 31, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though the Third Army had not officially come online yet, Patton&rsquo;s immediate superior, Gen. Omar Bradley, gave the warhorse operational control of the units that would comprise it starting on July 28, with an official birth date of Aug. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Patton&rsquo;s forces, numbering close to 150,000 soldiers at this point, moved quickly through the breach and into the French countryside, overtaking tens of thousands of enemy soldiers and liberating thousands of square miles of land in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the reason for the rapid success was Patton&rsquo;s battle philosophy in the age of mechanized warfare &mdash; tanks, armored personnel carriers, mobile artillery, planes and motorized supply chains &mdash; which was far different than the slow methodical advances of World War I, 20 years before.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The U.S. First Army under LTG Omar N. Bradley broke the stalemate in Operation COBRA, opening the field of battle for LTG George S. Patton Jr.&rsquo;s Third Army, which scythed through Brittany and eliminated much of German strategic position in northwestern France by JUL&rsquo;s end. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fyrV8rX0L1\">pic.twitter.com\/fyrV8rX0L1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CMH (@USArmyCMH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USArmyCMH\/status\/1816520053459677612?\">July 25, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In his book &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Patton-Blood-Prayer-Michael-Keane\/dp\/1596983264\/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.STvjCe2VChiNdqco7gbxGngVBGX8vO3vzP7hKYqvIwogJ5L10S5dJ8A1Ngcn1hXsNa7-ZXUebO_8Ln1OXxSWlh6nv6Bh1EEJmIsqW5ErInbQbPosGYR5hgwoDaLTKlH2zH5ajEL8S0UaUqm9yG-1xTYpIKJ0qZVsIN4SDKLJ1dcY_iuwWBKm-rMKtKj1YT60c7JTchyXtH4k3O_YwANizEQVcPStlxUTdp8pm0DnUcg.02XXu06sKgbb8tp4VyVgLHC_bGiC7qi-_p6iaDZZRFU&amp;qid=1722042633&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patton: Blood, Guts, and Prayer<\/a>,&rdquo; Michael Keane wrote that the general had standard lines he often employed in <a href=\"http:\/\/pattonhq.com\/speech.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speeches to his troops<\/a> to instill his vision of battle, which among other topics emphasized the importance of fast movement forward.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to get any messages saying, &lsquo;I am holding my position.&rsquo; We are not holding a [expletive] thing. Let the Germans do that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the [enemy].&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/staff\/james-carafano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. James Carafano<\/a> &mdash; a national security expert with The Heritage Foundation and author of the book &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811734870\/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">After D-Day: Operation Cobra and the Normandy Breakout<\/a>&rdquo; &mdash; told The Western Journal in 2019 that the Third Army set the gold standard for the Americans in the execution of mobile warfare.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;His forces did much to accelerate the speed of the advance on the Western Front and hasten the liberation of Europe,&rdquo; Carafano <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-patton-launched-historic-campaign-defeat-nazi-germany-75-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;The Third Army blazed the way, leading American forces in rediscovering operational maneuver warfare.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>War historian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/people\/conrad-crane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Conrad C. Crane<\/a> believes Patton&rsquo;s most impressive military feat as Third Army commander came late in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, which was the German Army&rsquo;s last <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hezbollah-leader-israeli-violation-of-holy-sites-in-jerusalem-will-lead-to-regional-war\/\" title=\"Hezbollah Leader: Israeli Violation of Holy Sites in Jerusalem Will Lead to \u2018Regional War\u2019\">major offensive<\/a> on the western front.<\/p>\n<p>The surprise Nazi attack made a 50-mile deep and 20- to 30- mile wide bulge in the Allied lines and encircling the 101st Airborne Division in Bastogne, Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Patton&rsquo;s] greatest accomplishment is when he turned his army 90 degrees in the middle of winter in December of &lsquo;44 to attack into the flank of the Bulge, relieve Bastogne and help blunt the German drive there,&rdquo; Crane told the Journal in 2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Battle of the Bulge is over, as German salient in Ardennes collapses under Allied counterattack; German offensive ends in 125,000 casualties <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GcbrDS7OQr\">pic.twitter.com\/GcbrDS7OQr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Second World War tweets from 1940 (@RealTimeWWII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealTimeWWII\/status\/824362823748878337?\">January 25, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the operation the Third Army moved farther and faster and engaged more divisions in less time than any other army in the history of the United States &mdash; possibly the history of the world,&rdquo; Patton wrote concerning the push to Bastogne and in the weeks that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The maneuver was depicted in the 1970 film &ldquo;Patton,&rdquo; which won the Academy Award for best picture. George C. Scott also garnered the prize for best actor in a leading role.<\/p>\n<p>The movie did much to propel the Patton legend to new heights.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IIFICRj01Mc?si=0JraI_dgtHI8P7WD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A remarkable incident occurred just prior to the outbreak of the Battle of the Bulge on Dec. 16, 1944 when Patton asked Third Army Chaplain James O&rsquo;Neill for a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gen-pattons-greatest-victory-happened-called-entire-army-pray-75-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weather prayer<\/a>. The skies had been overcast for weeks and heavy rains had made the roads muddy, all but stopping the Allied advance.<\/p>\n<p>O&rsquo;Neill drafted one which Patton liked so much he ordered the chaplain to print up prayer cards and distribute them to all the Third Army&rsquo;s 250,000 troops.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">General Patton, desiring good weather for his advance to Bastogne, had Chaplain Fr. James O&rsquo;Neill compose a card to be distributed to each one of the 250,000 troops under his command of the Third Army, and had all of the men pray this prayer. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lbuQOFILY1\">pic.twitter.com\/lbuQOFILY1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WWII Pictures (@WWIIpix) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WWIIpix\/status\/944314201979457536?\">December 22, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of inclement weather, the skies finally broke crisp and clear on Dec. 23, allowing Patton&rsquo;s forces to break through to Bastogne three days later and relieve the 101st Airborne.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">December 26 1944 Battle of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bulge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bulge<\/a><br \/>  Relief of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Bastogne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Bastogne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BoxingDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BoxingDay<\/a> Major <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Milestone?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Milestone<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WW2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WW2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/101st?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#101st<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Airborne?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Airborne<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/McAuliffe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#McAuliffe<\/a> and 10th <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Armored?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Armored<\/a> Div relieved by 4th Armored, spearhead of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Patton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Patton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThirdArmy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ThirdArmy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USArmy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#USArmy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ardennes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ardennes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8jczToEoU\">pic.twitter.com\/z8jczToEoU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Robson &#127464;&#127462; &#127482;&#127462; (@Jaeger_9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jaeger_9\/status\/945755468047310849?\">December 26, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historyonthenet.com\/pattons-message-marking-the-end-of-world-war-two\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to the Third Army following the Nazi surrender in May 1945, Patton recounted some of his soldiers&rsquo; astounding accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During the 281 days of incessant and victorious combat, your penetrations have advanced farther in less time than any other army in history,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;You have liberated or conquered more than 82,000 square miles of territory, including 1,500 cities and towns, and some 12,000 inhabited places.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Prior to the termination of active hostilities, you had captured in battle 956,000 enemy soldiers and killed or wounded at least 500,000 others. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia bear witness to your exploits.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In &ldquo;War As I Knew It,&rdquo; Patton lamented the end of the great conflict.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is rather sad to me to think my last opportunity for earning my pay has passed,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;At least, I have done my best as God gave me the chance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Portion of this article first appeared in &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/These-Truths-Randall-Norman-DeSoto-ebook\/dp\/B00B3OJ7WE\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Hold These Truths<\/a>&rdquo; by Randall DeSoto.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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Patton&#8217;s Third Army was activated in Europe during this week in 1944, playing a crucial role in the Allies&#8217; breakout from Normandy, France. Following the successful D-Day landings, progress had been sluggish as the Allies\u2014comprising the United States, Great Britain, and Canada\u2014were unprepared for the intensity of German resistance. The landscape of ancient fields provided significant advantages to Nazi defenders. In his book &#8220;War As I Knew It,&#8221; Patton described the &#8220;bocage&#8221; terrain as consisting of numerous small fields divided by earth banks and hedges that created ideal positions for infantry to delay advances.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty days after D-Day, Allied forces had only moved 20 to 30 miles inland\u2014a distance they had hoped to cover within five days post-landing\u2014and suffered around 122,000 casualties according to Rick Atkinson&#8217;s &#8220;The Guns at Last Light.&#8221; However, Patton was poised to change this slow pace into a rapid advance across northwest Europe toward Germany\u2019s borders. After being sidelined for eleven months following operations in Sicily, he felt an urgency about ending the war before he could re-engage.<\/p>\n<p>On July 25th, Operation Cobra commenced with extensive bombing targeting German front lines over an area measuring approximately 3.5 miles long and nearly 1.5 miles deep. Atkinson notes that around 2,500 Allied bombers dropped roughly 11,000 bombs per square mile\u2014one of warfare&#8217;s most concentrated displays of firepower\u2014which allowed Allied troops to exploit breaches in German defenses at Saint-L\u00f4.<\/p>\n<p>Although not officially operational yet on July 28th when General Omar Bradley granted him control over units forming his army (officially established on August 1), Patton quickly mobilized nearly 150,000 soldiers through these gaps into French territory while defeating tens of thousands of enemy troops and liberating vast areas within weeks. His approach emphasized speed and mobility using mechanized warfare tactics unlike those used during World War I.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. James Carafano from The Heritage Foundation remarked that Patton\u2019s Third Army set a benchmark for American mobile warfare execution which significantly accelerated advances on the Western Front and contributed greatly towards liberating Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Historian Dr. Conrad C. Crane highlighted one of Patton\u2019s most remarkable achievements during late December&#8217;s Battle of the Bulge when he maneuvered his army swiftly amidst winter conditions to relieve encircled American forces at Bastogne\u2014a feat depicted in the acclaimed film &#8220;Patton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before this battle began on December 16th, Patton requested a weather prayer from Chaplain James O\u2019Neill due to persistent poor conditions hindering movement; O\u2019Neill crafted one that resonated with Patton so much it was distributed among all Third Army troops.<\/p>\n<p>After weeks without favorable weather conditions cleared up by December 23rd allowing access through Bastogne three days later\u2014the relief operation became a significant milestone during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>In May1945 after Nazi surrendering ,Patton reflected upon his soldiers&#8217; extraordinary accomplishments noting their rapid territorial gains throughout combat operations across multiple countries including France,Belgium,Germany etc., capturing hundreds-of-thousands enemy personnel along with inflicting heavy casualties . 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