The background: In March 1945 the 4th Armored Division of Patton’s Third Army rested, out of breath, on a bridgehead along the Main. Some 50 miles northeast, near the town of Hammelburg ...

Within days, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton Jr. had turned his Third U.S. Army to the north and was counterattacking against the German flank. But the story of the Battle of the Bulge is above all the ...

My late father served in the Marines, my children’s dad was a Vietnam veteran, and my mother’s brother, the late, A.W. Smith was a WWII Army veteran who served in Patton’s Third Army at the Battle of ...

Private First Class Clarke E. Krivanec went missing in action on Dec. 20, 1944, four days into the bloodbath that became the ...

Patton By Jared Keller Updated on Dec 10 ... according to Worldwide Auctioneers. Once a part of the 3rd Army headquarters’ motor pool, the restored vehicle also includes ‘three-star general ...

Gen Patton, who commanded the vast US Third Army, had arrived in Lower Peover in January 1944 with his troops and had made nearby Peover Hall his headquarters. His units would train nearby for ...

Clauss said the tank is considered a macro artifact and is tracked through the Army Museum Information System. The tank has served as the mascot for Patton Hall since Third Army was re-activated ...

(JTA) — Alan Moskin served in Patton’s 3rd Army as it liberated Mauthausen. The experience, he said in an unintentional wordplay, was “tattooed right here on my heart, on my soul.” ...