Seventy-one years ago this week, U.S. Army General George S. Patton, Jr. delivered what is considered one of the most rousing military speeches of all time to the American 3rd Army waiting to do ...

Reprint The ’Speech’, Somewhere in England, June 5th,1944 General Patton arose and strode swiftly to the microphone. The men snapped to their feet and stood silently. Patton surveyed the sea of… ...

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The general died in 1945 (more on that later), but when his widow died in 1953, hopes for a production were revived, but Patton's son, George Patton IV, and his daughter, Ruth, campaigned against it.