George Patton, America 's greatest general!

[88MRloko]

Sry but no. The best General was MacArthur sry but he was better its true but Patton was still a great general and one of my fav :)

[madskiIIz]

Respect for gen. Patton from Poland. BETTER DEAD THAN RED

[horsedumper]

Patton was great man ..he could see what was going on with the apeasment of russia ...the allies was suppose to fight for liberty of europe but only ended up replacing one tryrant with and even worse one in stalin....patton could of taken berlin and the rest of the eastern states should driven them back to moscow......there would of been no cold war probably no red china ...and no veitnam saving millions...patton said if this is liberty gave me death

[Soldierjonnyboy]

I love this film,,,George C Scott has always been my favorite actor. Gen Patton was the best general in all wars....RIP to bouth of them.

[sportslegend09]

Best general in history no doubt at all

[misterpeaky]

You must be a pretty stupid imbecile!

[Vengencelll]

watch?v=0sG8aVuhzTo

General Patton On jews And Germans

Learn what the greatest American WW2 general had to say about the jews and Germans.

Jews killed Patton!

[Shanethefilmmaker]

Where is the scene where patton meets his russian equivilant and tells the translator to tell him "I do not wish to drink with you or any other russian son of a bitch." to which the russian (I am gonna call him russian patton for the reason above.) says "I don't want to drink with no son of a bitch either." after which they toast each other in respect.

[michaelbyrnes2012]

This movie scene alludes to Patton's perception and disapproval of Allied High Command's favouring the Soviets.

I read that he was assassinated for it at the orders of "Wild Bill" Donovan.

Douglas Bazata, an OSS agent, caused the car accident and broke Gen Patton's neck. Patton was recovering from this but was later poisoned by the NKVD. Such are the allegations.

Amazing and sickening if true.

See "Target Patton" by R Wilcox.

[TheEirica]

what stuff did patton and eisenhower diagree upon during WW II?

[cbcrog]

@TheEirica Well it all goes back to Patton and Eisenhower before WWII. I mite be wrong but i believe that Eisenhower wanted to advocate for a better role of tanks in the army, but Patton stopped supporting him (This was in the 20's before tanks were a well developed weapon and horses were still considered superior.) So there was somewhat of a grudge there. Really in WWII Eisenhower, the supreme allied commander, was just trying to show his authority. If im wrong feel free to correct me!

[Freebird101st]

PATTON PLEASE COME BACK !!!!

[IcyScythe]

Is this from the George C Scott Patton movie? I don't recognize these scenes.

[RedSarcov]

I meet to many people like Ike, god I hate that. I am a pain the neck! I am joining the Canadian Forces next month...

oh boy, will I make a brilliant general. God bless America.

[vomit49894]

Patton did NOT like the Russians. He tried to be a friend to Ike, but there differences eventually became irreconciable. Patton was a far better field General than Ike (who never was a true filed commander).

[Jurassic0Al]

"You *can't* disagree with me! It's not a matter of- of- opinion. It's a matter of policy." General Eisenhower got that one right. But the irony to Patton's speaking out against that overboard emphasis on denazification and the USSR turned out to be rather accurate. The Russians were not our allies anymore, and many shots had yet to be fired. We are still waiting for Ike's words- "No one has to fire any more shots, George!" to come true, over fifty years later.

[Jurassic0Al]

As much of a pain as Patton was- he never could control that mouth of his- he turned out to be right about the Russians. We'd have saved everybody a lot of trouble if Patton and MacArthur had been allowed to go all-out against the Reds in Europe and the Pacific respectively. And sadly, everybody *did* have to fire a LOT more shots. If only Ike had been right...or if only folks had listened to Patton earlier. What's especially sad about this is that Patton and Ike were once good friends.

[Lucildor]

Dudes before me, relax and just watch the video. The youtube community knows that you two know a lot about WW2, no need to argue. And also, I'd like to say that Patton's dog is really cool.

[BALANCE94015]

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Peace killed Patton. Patton killed Patton. Greatness just fades away.

[jokey1134]

i look up to patton as a shining american hero but to say he was the best american general you would be wrong it would be stonewall jackson

[Lm3ntz]

I wonder what Patton would think of the USA if he sees it now :^)

[lancechamplain]

Too bad they didn't turn Patton loose. Eastern europe wouldn't have been enslaved for fifty years.

[TheGermanItalianGuy2]

enslaved?tahts inaccurate African-Americans were enslaved Communists werent enslaved

[lancechamplain]

Stalin killed more people than hitler. Mao killed more people than stalin.

[XFuncCaRteR]

The only problem is the Soviets would have crushed Patton.

Americans believe, erroneously, that they defeated the Germans. Wrong. The Russians did.

If you look at the statistics of forces sizes, soldiers, casualties, etcetera - the battle between the Soviets and Germans far outsized anything that happened between the Germans and the rest of the Allies. By the time the Allies were landing in Normandy, the Soviets were rolling forward on the Eastern Front.

[lancechamplain]

# exfunc: The Americans not only defeated the Germans but they also defeated the Japanese. How, American productivety! We produced more than our allies&enemies combined. Forces sizes? The Russians had a large Army and a lot of equipment supplied by, who, The Americans. The Americans had soldiers fighting on two huge fronts, plus C.B.I. and Italy, A huge two ocean navy, and the greatest air force ever. Crushed? Patton had airpower, supplies, and last but not least. The atom bomb.

[XFuncCaRteR]

Dude, the Americans weren't even engaged in ground fighting with the largest and best equipped Army in the world - the Wehrmacht - until 1943. The Russians had already been fighting them for almost 2 years by then, and not separated by an ocean. The Ruskies were fighting for their lives.

The Americans, Brits and others *helped* the Russians bear the brunt of the German onslaught. They HELPED, and no more. The Germans had already been smashed at Kursk BEFORE the D-Day landings even happened.

[XFuncCaRteR]

When Patton was engaging the Germans at the Ardennes, the Russians were already rolling into Poland. The Germans were crumbling by then. The Bulge was just a last gasp for them.

You really should do some research. The statistics for Operation Barbarossa alone are staggering. In that one year the Soviets lost several times more casualties than ALL US casualties in the Second World War.

[lancechamplain]

They suffered more casualitys because 1. Stalin purged his officers corps due to German espionage. 2, Stalin fell for the german-russian pact and would'nt even believe he was being attacked until it was almost too late His factories were destroyed and he lost miles of terratory so he did the only thing he had left..He threw enormous quantities of men(and Women) at the germans. The Americans did'nt have to do that. fortunately. As far as research.(to be cont).

[lancechamplain]

History of navel operations in WWII-samuel elliot morrison. To hell and back- Audie Murphy. American Ceaser-William Manchester. Ordeal and Triumph- Ladaslas Ferrago- A Man called Intrepid- William Stevenson. Churchill- Martin Barre. Crusade in Europe- Eisenhower. Asoldiers story - Omar Bradley-. The rise and fall of the Third Reich-William Shirer. Inside the third reich-Albert Speer,Where he catagorically affirms that U.S. Daylight presision bombing won the war. just to name a few.

[lancechamplain]

Just off the top of my head-put that in your pipe and smoke it. Oh That reminde me.....gotta go .

[XFuncCaRteR]

...continued...

"German expansion was stopped in December of 1942, with simultaneous defeats in Russia and North Africa. However as Montgomery defeated Rommel's Panzer Armee (equal to about 3 corps) at Alamein, the Soviets were engaging 45 or so German Corps on the Eastern Front.

"The Red Army crushed the last offensive hopes of Germany at Kursk in July, 1943. Meanwhile the [western] Allies were stymied at Cassino and Anzio, engaging only FOUR German corps."

...continued...

[XFuncCaRteR]

...continued...

"By D-Day, the Red Army had recaptured virtually all of Russia and advanced into Poland and Rumania. By then, Germany was fighting to survive not to win."

[XFuncCaRteR]

There is a really great wargame series called Euro Front. These consist of 2 thoroughly-researched games - East Front and West Front. Play these. It not only gives detailed orders of battle throughout WW2, but you get to move the pieces around and see for yourself.

[XFuncCaRteR]

From the East Front introduction:

"World War II was won and lost on the Eastern Front. Most of Germany's land strength was deployed in Russia throughout the war. When the [western] Allies landed on 'D-Day', the Germans had been on the run in the east for 18 months. Russia lost over 13 million soldiers fighting in Germany. The [western] Allies lost around a quarter of a million."

continued...

[XFuncCaRteR]

Dude, there is no way in hell you can say the US contributed more to the defeat of the Germans than the Soviets.

[lancechamplain]

Sure there's away. Supply. The U.S. out produced more than the germans,russians,japanese, italians,chinese,and the english combined.AIRPOWER WON WWII.and PRODUCTION. Oh! If the United States wanted to it could have raised an army just as large as the soviets. But we did'nt have to cos we had the soviets for that. Helmets, boots, ammo, food, tanks all given to the russians thru lend lease. Everything inthat war hinged on the awesome industrial power of America. For example(cont)

[lancechamplain]

AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR THE u.s. HAD 25 b-17 bombers, by wars end 25000. and thats just one type of aircraft of all the many different kinds. the U.S. made 50000 sherman tanks. guess who got a helluva lot of them-THE RUSSIANS DID. Oh and one more little tidbit. We knew thru Enigma that the Germans were going to invade russia. We knew the date and time and even the code name. Churchill and Roosevelt both sent personal emissaries to warn Stalin. He would'nt listen. (cont)

[lancechamplain]

General William J.(Wild Bill) Donovan, head of the OSS,personaly went to the balkans and used American prestiege(which there was a lot of back than) and agitated some of the leaders of the balkan states into defying hitler and hitler invaded the balkans which thru off operation Barbarossa by six weeks. The germans did'nt invade the soviets until july which was way too late to get to moscow by winter. Donovan won the medal of honor inWWI. And was a hero of the secret war in WWII.

[PattonsWhip]

lancechamplain: The Germans smahsed through the Soviet lines on June 21, 1941.

[Jurassic0Al]

@XFuncCaRteR- Yeah, yeah we can. I don't see why you'd favor those...*Russians* over the people you share a continent with and have been allied with in several wars. The Russians were and may very well still be the enemy! Together, I know that the USA and Canada did as much if not more to defeat the Germans than the USSR did. Not that their contributions should be ignored, of course...

[XFuncCaRteR]

@Jurassic0Al

Several million Russians fought the Germans. A few hundred thousand, maybe a million, Americans fought the Germans. And the Americans are the ones who did it? Yah, okay. I think you just can't stand the thought that America wasn't the ultimate kick-ass country in the world.

Russia bore the brunt of the Blitzkrieg in World War Two, and fought it back. By the time we were landing at D-Day, the Germans were on the run in the East.

[Jurassic0Al]

@XFuncCaRteR- If numbers all all that counts, then sure. They win. The Russians always have valued quantity over quality. Considering we did things with quality and skill that even Stalin admitted the USSR couldn't, America and the Western allies at least matched the Soviets. What counts just as much is what each side did with their victory. The Soviets raised hell all over Eastern Europe, and it never got all that much better after 1945, either.

[MobiusInfinity117]

even if iam not american.

i'll follow patton into battle any day.

[CaptainWildFire]

Patton>>>>>>>>>>>>>Eisenhower

[LoganMetaleyePriest]

this doesnt seem like its from the movie Patton, what is it from.

[wintertwister]

From the second Patton movie.

[PinoyFlash]

I can recall a joke from this movie. This shows the media's inconsideration to George S. Patton. I remember a part of this movie, where an soldier was talking to Steiner and mentioned that Patton maybe "excused of command" due to slapping a soldier. Steiner then responded by saying this "Why would the Americans dismiss their best General by just slapping a soldier?"

[Perseiden2]

steiner was a Jew

[Enforcer57]

Firing Patton is an excellent example of PC crap. And saying you are a pro military leftist is the same as saying being a pro equality member of the KKK. Gimme a break.

[Mr2ndAmendment]

Patton did get screwed over. He respected the concept of "the soldier," and cared more about how he performed his duty rather than the color of his uniform. I like how Patton predicted the fact that the US and the Soviets would not be allies after the war, and I love it how he said we should have destroyed Berlin and just kept going. Ike had political aspirations, and doing the politically-correct thing instead of the right thing was on the agenda. I wish Patton had stayed at my school

VMI 2011

[TheSteffen1223]

Eisenhower should have listened to patton.

[FinalWar1444]

eisenhauer killed Patton then ran for president and appointed the worst liberal judges in our history.

[vladimir2366fa]

the movie is excellent.

thanks you.

[2setufree]

Too giants in their time Dwight D Eisenhower the last great president that warned the American People about the Military Industrial Complex taking over the country. George S Patton perhaps the greatest General ever, warned Truman about the great threat from the Far East. The threat he wanted to elimate, and in the not to distant future will become our worst nightmare. With only the Exception of John F. Kennedy, these Greats are mourned by all Good Americans. God help the USA.

[briang2008]

Two is spelled this way, not spelled too you genius. Learn how to spell you Republican bastard. John F. Kennedy should be mourned by all good Americans too. By the way, what the hell is a "good American." Define it for me. Is it one that is a right-wing conservative asshole such as yourself. I am a pro-military pro-US Army Democrat and I am on the political left and I am damn proud of it. I am a "good American" and I am not a conservative either!

[Suarez031087]

Hell yeah!! right on bro ,Im on the left as well, F*** the other side!

[flippysnotze]

Boy did Patton have Ike's number! Ike was a paper pusher and a Politician. Ike was a high ranking logistics clerk. Patton was a General.

[PattonsWhip]

flippysnotze: General Douglas MacArthur called General Eisenhower, "the best Aide I ever had".

[broncosfan160720]

George Patton was the best general to ever live. To be honest I doubt he will ever be surpassed in greatness when it comes to leadership. he was a great man and I'm proud to say he was my fourth cousin and I hope to be a great leader like he was

[ginasurin]

How about Subutai?

[HeartlessGorre]

@broncosfan160720 Him, Washington, Mac Arthur, and Bradley were the best generals we ever had, for sure.

[sikmiXXX]

George Patton was the greatest Gen. ever? lmao i can think of 10 just from world war 2, starting with Gen. Montgomery of the United Kingdom, 10 times better general, i think if you look closely Patton took almost all of the credit for Montys work

[panzergrenadier1941]

@sikmiXXX monty was a homo.

[MRWALKER500000]

@panzergrenadier1941 and behind that username is a fat German in leather shorts and  virgin who sings 'she'll be coming round the mountain when she comes'

[panzergrenadier1941]

@MRWALKER500000 Don't put your sexual fantasies on me man. I was just trolling but as I am sure you've no sense of humor whatsoever I'll skip the cheap shots. Monty was good, the best british general of ww2, but he was no wellington. He always had superior forces and even then he had his share of blunders (Normandy breakout, Market Garden). I wonder what he would do in the East facing odds of 3 to 1 or whatever. Your "royal" army of clerks and errand boys wouldn't last 3 months in the East.

[MRWALKER500000]

@panzergrenadier1941 ah the traditional warm german welcome... pitting british forces against the red army at that time would be very stupid, that shitty discovery show 'deadliest warriors' is a con

[Rastamanchanter]

this is the most amazing warrior the earth had ever seen

those bastards could have let patton run and ended hitler and stalins ass b4 the millions got killed and b4 the years of war took there toll ...

[ponchatoula420]

Patton was the last great warrior bottom line!

[Saratogasaratoga]

General Patton is my Favorite General, but not America's greatest. America's Greatest General was George Washington.

I found it Ironic in the scene you chose to show off the "Greatest American General" he was dominated by perhaps America's 2nd Greatest General, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[agsibarani]

So where do you rank Generals Bradley, Pershing, MacArthur, "Hap" Arnold, Sherman, Grant, Sheridan and Lee? ;-)

[VandalStork]

Washington? He was an important General, a master of the careful retreat and a good man in a suprise attack, but his greatest gift was inspiring loyalty. He was hardly our best General. One of the best Presidents, but not Generals. Grant, Lee, Jackson (both Andrew and Stonwall), Sherman, Sheridan and Patton all made better military commanders when attack was called for.

[Saratogasaratoga]

OK when I say "Greatest" I mean my own criteria. My Criteria is "what General did more for this country than Washington? If you want to judge by "best strategist" I'd say Lee, Patton, Stonewall, Marshall.

If you mean who would be best if you need someone who can be ruthless and win at any cost: I'd say Grant, Sherman, Patton, Sheridan, Pershing, MacArthur.

[Hammi713]

goerge washington lost over half of his battles how can he be your favorite

[Jizzraeli]

what was the 3rd war and why is patton a bitch in this scene i thought hes meant to be hardass

[johnsatyricon]

Sorry friend, my English isn 't that bad, but I don' understand uour point.

[Jizzraeli]

whats hard to understand dumbass? i said why does patton act like a little bitch to eisenhower. this movie isnt an accurate portrail of patton

[johnsatyricon]

The relationship betweeen Eisenhower, the Supreme Head of the Allied Forces, and Patton, were very difficult. Eisenhower accuses him of not following his denazification orders, and of insulting the Russians, who were stil their allies at that time. The difficulties that Patton caused to the allied supreme comaand were innumerable. This is also an aspect of Patton, and it is not inaccurate...

[ihatemydog89]

@johnsatyricon don't both of you know that patton had a higher rank that eisenhower in the "regular army" before WWII and were close friends that even spent vacations together... when the war broke out eisenhower shot up from lt. colonel all the way to a Lt. general in just a few months, out ranking patton for the first time..... this obviously made patton feel uncomfortable.. they didnt hate each other, there relationship just took a different road

[Jurassic0Al]

@Jizzraeli- Dude, Patton couldn't have ever been accurately called a "little bitch" under any circumstances. This movie is plenty accurate.

[FordGTGuy]

@Jizzraeli

He was his superior and Patton knew that Ike had the power to take him out of the fight if he wanted. That is the last thing Patton would want so he decided to back off and lay low.

[bigbarge1]

thats gen Eisenhower, the Supreme Head of the Allied Forces and pattons boss so he can fire him that why his acting like that he dos not what to go home

[HeartlessGorre]

@Jizzraeli hes a tired old man who is being attacked by the media and hes trying not to piss off everyone back home. ALL he cares about it fighting in a great, deciding battle against a worthy opponent. It is his dream.

[Jurassic0Al]

@Jizzraeli- The third war? I don't know what you mean by that.

Patton isn't being a "bitch". He's showing Eisenhower, his superior officer, the respect that Eisenhower's rank and status calls for. Patton is mostly known for being a hard-driving SOB, but he was quite respectful when speaking to those who outranked him. If he'd been a "hardass" towards his bosses his Army career would have ended much sooner than it did,

[JustPhilNY]

What is he doing at the beginning of this video?

[kentamitchell]

He was fencing. Patton was an Olympic caliber swordsman.

[johnsatyricon]

Patton became a friend of a former German SS colonel, and in this scene, he was doing a friendly fight with swords, or how do yaou say this in better English? We Europeans understand a lot of English, but of course we do not know all the subtilties of the English Languae...

[JustPhilNY]

Sword fight. I understand.

[anon2999]

fencing match might be the phrase you want.

[johnsatyricon]

Patton was commander of the 3th Army, and he served under Bradley, commander of the 12th Army Group. Does any one today remember Bradley? No. Or the names of Patton 's fellow Army commanders: Hodges of the 1st Army, or Simpson of the 9th? No. Eisenhower, Montgomery and Patton, these are the names that the public now remembers of the Allied commanders.

[munerider]

Of the "grown ups" I think most remember Omar Bradley. The younger generation doesn't know any of the names except some Ike, but might be surprised he was a general. "Before my time." $%^@#$%@%!!!

[godzilla74114]

i remember bradley. last 5 star army general. monty was a dumbass. Patton should have been a 5 star.

[Currymastuh]

i agree patton should have been made 5 star, but there was also douglas macarthur and harold alexander

[bronco1523]

The General George Patton Jr. is the Best of the Best. The german soldier says Unser Patton Unser Freund

[johnsatyricon]

The German generals respected Patton very well. They thougt that he was to lead the planned invasion in Europe in 1944.

[allflip99]

Patton wanted to fight the Russians while we had troops over there, and actually it wasn't a bad idea.

[abercrombiecutie1017]

don't hate America

[johnsatyricon]

I don 't hate America. I admit the mentioning of Bush alongside real dictators as Hitler and Stalin is bullshit. I apologize for that error. But you Americans have to understand that for us, Europeans, the image of the US was at its lowest. Let 's forget these times and reinstore Atlantic partnership under Barack O Bama. I am also willing to admit that Eisenhower made the error of underestimating the communist danger under Stalin. Communism was in fact as bad as German national-socialism

[pattonftw]

It also wouldn't be hard to rally the rest of europe to pattons cause most of the countries such as poland hated the russains more then the nazzis and so did most of europe. and dont forget we had the bomb first although i doubt we would have to use it the red army was barely standing at the end of the war.

[zzxzqwq]

Patton wanted to start world war 3 maybe he was nutter. How many more millions would have died.

[TheDudeRules44]

Stalin killed 25 million of his own people, How many lives would have been SAVED if Patton got what he wanted. The entire Cold War (aka the 50 year war) could have been avoided if Eisenhower had the balls to let Patton attack Again, the Cold War could have been avoided because at that time the Russians barely had a leg to stand on. Their army was devastated and Patton could have taken them on his own without any reinforcements with little casualties (as was his custom)

[zzxzqwq]

No because those deaths were before patton did that so it would not have saved anyone.

[smoky90210]

The cold war would have been much shorter and the soviet union would have surrendered because the didnt have the atomic bomb.We would have used it ten fold on Russia.

[zzxzqwq]

But the atom bomb did not arrive for another year. Who knows how many more millions would have been killed. Would stalin have surrendered.

[smoky90210]

What the hell are you talking about?Another year then how did the war end 3 months later?We had the bomb at that point and the USSR had started its research in late 1944.The Russians feared us until 1947 after the Rosenburgs leaked information of the atomic bomb to the USSR.We would have been un stoppable and would have been able to stick through the Russian winter.Stalin would have to be dead before the Soviets would have surrendered.

[zzxzqwq]

Nope the war ended in 1945 not 1944. Read some history books. How do you know america would have won what if the soviets had taken over instead. They might have driven the USA and allies out of europe.

[fmoa]

nah mate..the yanks would av win..they av all the stuff towards the end of war..atom bomb,a large navy n air force,a good n well train army..all russian got is numbers n its tanks..but no air force or navy..yanks can blockade russian ports n use air power to crush russian numbers n its armored divisions..n when things get worst..atom bomb..russian didnt av atom bomb back then..n stop wit witout russia allies would av lost..come on,,where was russia in pacific war..they werent any help at all..

[zzxzqwq]

Russia did not need ports they had oil and resources in europe. They would have conquered the continent.

[zzxzqwq]

What are you on about the war ended in 1945 not 1944. The european one ended in 1944. How do you know who would have won. The soviets had stack loads of soilders there discontent across the continent.

[smoky90210]

Atomic Bomb.

[pattonftw]

actually if we would have attacked the russians then less people would have died then in korea and vietnam to stop the communist spread. Not to mention the death and continual rape on the communist side of germany. but patton had to die the bastard.

[vomit49894]

Patton rules. Ike was a weenie!

[bronco1523]

George Smith Patton Jr. is the Best of the Best.

[twieneke76]

So you try to get Americans on your side by complimenting one of our nations heroes....then you sneak in calling our former president a dictator at the end. You can keep your praise of our heroes. You cite the American press characterizing Patton as a nazi....and you fail to learn the lesson yourself.

[johnsatyricon]

I posted this when Bush was still destroying the world. Now times have changed with Barack O ' Bama...

[Amzie75]

You compare Bush to Stalin and to Hitler two of the worst tyrants in history. When Stalin was in power there were 20.600.000 deaths in his country and when Hitler was in power there more than 6.000.000. I really see the comparison, I guess this was a war for oil right?

[vomit49894]

Please!!! Barack is the "good cop" the "system" put in place to wash the bad taste out of the world's mouth left from the "bad cop" (Bush). The machinations of politics are all controlled by an unelected elite. It's true!!!

[Amzie75]

America has been what it is for so long based on the ideas and teachings of its founding fathers. You want change you are going to get it and all of us are going to pay. When Barck crashes the American market you will feel it in Belgium, trust me. You all want America to fall and dont realize the global repercussion. Who do you thin obama answers to?

[twieneke76]

Guess what's changed in American foreign policy since O'bama's taken over? Not a damn thing. Guess what will change? Not a damn thin. I'm a Chicagoan and I know how Chicago politicians work. You're in for a rude awakening about Obama.

[premium92]

I agree with you whole-heartedly

[gamehng007]

If you read every book on WWII you would think you could spell...

[NAVYVICK]

patton had a big mouth and an army that could back it up!!! We need more men like him and fewer politicians controling our military

[Dietpepsivanilla]

Patton was great, but I was rather partial to Vinegar Joe.

[patsfreak]

Patton had a big mouth, but he was right. He was right to distrust the Soviets and was ahead of the curve.

[gurugurukuma]

yeah i believe General Patton is the greatest American General of WW2.Ike's tactics and decisions in that war were all politically motivated. As for the "slapping" incident, it's is the right thing for him to do because a shell-shocked soldier can affect the morale of his comrades.

[Downfacingdog]

The Zionist Jews were worried that Patton would throw a monkey wrench into their plans for the overthrow of the U.S. and their plans for world domonance. We miss you George, and looking arond the world today, you were right!

[Grzecho1988]

I really admir Patton for his anit-communism.

In fact communist bastard are responsible for more deaths than the Nazis. I think that Roosvelt was far to naive in his trust in Stalin. Patton seems to be one of the few Allied commander who

[Grzecho1988]

wanted to prevent Soviets form introducing communism in Central and eastern Europe

[holtaprid]

Didn't Patton say that he was a Roman centurion in a past life? To me, he is war personified.

[johnsatyricon]

Although Patton was the most agressive American general, each allied commander should be recognised for his merits.

Eisenhower should be credited for maintaining the political balance in the shaky American-British coalition, and for his obsession with logistics and feeding the allied war machine. Montgomery, the British commander, has been accused of being too cautious, but Britain was at the very end of its human resources, so he only engaged in battle, if victory was sure.

[gamehng007]

You cannot spell and your opinions are so assinine they make my head hurt.

[farmall51]

thanks Jelle741

[farmall51]

Does anybody know what movie this was from. all I can find is clips from movie "Patton" made in 1970.

[jelle741]

It 's from the movie 'The Last Days of Patton' (1986), with the same actor G.C. Scott.

[herbstfarbe270]

Patton was murdered because of his attitude. He understood like nobody else that the Communists were far more dangerous than the nazi's. If he'd had his way,than they wouldn't have halted just to give the damn Russian army the opportunity to rape Berlin. And he would have gone further East and kicked them back were they belonged.

[rkhale01]

Patton was not murdered it was a car accident

[herbstfarbe270]

yes, but under "suspicious circumstances".

[PWNTplokoon9619]

What did Pershing ever do to get Six Stars compared to this guy?

[rvmorrow]

I was there in 1945 as a soldier. There seems to

a great deal of hostility now that certainly

was not there at that time. Spell Gratitude.

This is a realistic video

raymo

[moproducer]

You're absolutely right, rvmorrow, Patton may have had his personal peculiarities, but he embodied the one Great Hero of World War II. History owes him far more than he has received, and the irony that a draft-dodging John Wayne is more respected as an American is yet another part of the American puzzle.

[zack9912000]

We need more people like him, our country has become soft and weak. Its show how much political correctness has destroyed this country.

[zervelle]

i never saw this scene in the movie patton,....well thanks anyway....

[tiamattiamatre]

america liberate europe? prove that. europe is not only france or belgium. america liberate only 1/20 of europe. and this is not liberating europe. by the way, they were helped very much by british army.

[johnsatyricon]

Very well put, Jelle. I am a European just as you, and I have the same ambivalent feelings against our big American uncle. The American is a powerful bear, a litle bit clumsy, sometimes -or even often- an elephant in a china shop. But I love this clumsy big bear, if only he had the courage to look into his own soul, to what he is doing to the world and compare the present to the past of his grandfathers, who liberated us from fascism...

[cholderby]

Sort of how we liberated Iraq from fascim? Good clip. And I am greatful for the kind sentiments expressed for my country. But I think you need to ask yourself whether it is the soul of American that has changed more since 1945, or Europe.

[DirtyHarryinaction]

What the hell is this? I have it on my computer but these scenes are not in it. Are we talking directors cut/special edition here? If they had only followed Pattons advice and finished the real war while USA had its entire army in Europe! Instead we Europeans had to deal with those fucking Russian mongoloids for 50 years. Iron curtain.

[johnsatyricon]

No, it is in the movie. Sometimes, movies are censured in the US, if they are not "politically correct".

[BenAliGtor]

The scenes are from "The Last Days of Patton", a made for TV feature. They're not from the 1970 movie "Patton", although they got George C. Scott to revive his famous role. It dealt more with the "postwar Patton", and included flashbacks of his early life as well as events leading up to his death.

[jelle741]

Indeed, you have to distinguish between the famous 1970 Patton movie and this film 'The last Days of Patton', although it was the same actor, George C. Scott, who played the role of General Patton, 30 years later. Of course, the actor had become older, but this fact suited the script of this movie, that featured General Patton as a broken man, who couldn 't find his place in post-war times, that didn't honour any more his agressivity and his audacity...

[jelle741]

As a European I have to express my ambivalent feelings about the Americans. You liberated us from the Nazi nightmare, for which we owe you an enourmous gratitude. But afterwards, the image of the 'good' American slowly made place to the 'bad' American, who wants to impose his will to the world. President Eisenhower at the end of his Presidency warned against the dangers of the 'military-industrial complex', a term he coined. He was a visionary, f.e. Dick Cheny and Halliburton in Irak...

[jelle741]

World War II was a just war. The war in Irak isn 't. Although Saddam Hoessein was a tyrant and a genocidist, the Bush administration lured you into believing that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction, that could be a treath for the US. The truth was different: Irak was an impoverished nation, weakened by the first Gulf War and no weapons of mass destruction were found. Instead of being hailed as liberators, you are treated as occupiers. You make the same faults as in Vietnam...

[jelle741]

Fine young Americans, let 's reinstaure the Atlantic parnership between America and Europe, that your current president, Mr. Bush, has so crudely broken. Let us again form a partnership in the name of democracy and freedom, that is routed in your historical traditions. Let 's forget the lies and the nightmare of the Bush Administration, that has so ruthlessly raped the American soul. Let 's forget the past and shape a better future for America with Barack O 'Bama as President...

[BenAliGtor]

In many respects "The Last Days of Patton" was a far more historically accurate and in depth view of the man than the original movie.

[GeneralBelesarius]

This guys the man! he rode the battlefeild in a tank.

[yoklestone]

Im related to general george s. patton.His daughter is my grandma and she died in april this year. If u dont bleae me look it up.

[pzlehr777]

They should have let Patton do what he wanted instead of kissing the commies asses! Lives could have been saved if Ike let him take Berlin instead of farting around with Montegomery's Market Garden that lost many lives for nothing. Patton estimated he could have taken Berlin weeks if not months earlier..Then he should have been allowed to push the commies back...would be a better world today

[panzermatt]

i believe patton was killed, because of his admiration for german soldiers and in particular the SS.

[Infowarrior19832006]

do you have the whole video of Pattons last days if you do can u show it all if not its cool

[rodeorowdy]

A Great Man and Patriot!

Thanks for the posting.

Long Live the Memory of General Patton!

[johnsatyricon]

Patton was a great American general. As a cavalry man, he melded together the US Armoured Divisions, while Congress and the Ministry of War didn' t believe in it.

Patton 's name however is forever tainted by the slapping of two wounded American soldiers, sufffering from shell-shock. A real great general doesn 't do this. However, I admire him for his breakthrough in France after Operation Cobra, and for the relieving of the encircled US troups in Bastogne, during the Battle of the Bulge.

[jelle741]

Great clip and beautiful accompanying text!