Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 467. Not illustrated. Chapters: Recipients of the Croix de Guerre (Belgium), George S. Patton, Curtis Lemay, Johnnie Johnson, John Marshall Harlan Ii, Jan Smuts, John J. Pershing, Gabby Gabreski, Arthur Currie, Audie Murphy, William Bostock, Ernest King, Norman Stronge, Henry Hughes Wilson, Charles Geoffrey Vickers, John Dill, Ian Freeland, Frank A. Armstrong, Frederick Walker Castle, William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood, Charles H. Corlett, Nevill Maskelyne Smyth, Bud Mahurin, Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, Robert Sink, Eddy Blondeel, Charles Rosenthal, Leon W. Johnson, Leonard T. Gerow, William O. Wooldridge, John C. Meyer, James E. Hill, David C. Schilling, Louis W. Truman, William Robertson, Bunny Currant, James Earl Rudder, Benjamin Roxburgh-Smith, Roland Beamont, Maurice Rose, Desmond J. Scott, Terry Spencer, Hugh Elles, Brudenell White, Raoul Magrin-Vernerey, Harry George Armstrong, Sir Christopher Peto, 3rd Baronet, Joe W. Kelly, Cornelius Vanderbilt Iii, John K. Gerhart, Raymond Harries, Alexander Coutanche, Baron Coutanche, Pierre Sevigny, Neville Stack, Billy Sing, Albert Desbrisay Carter, Gerald Smyth, Earle E. Partridge, Lloyd Samuel Breadner, Ivone Kirkpatrick, Billy Bennett, Frederick William Lumsden, Donald Kingaby, Henry Kelly, Gwilym Ivor Thomas, R a Del'haye, David Fleming, Lord Fleming, Drummond Shiels, Emile Krieps, Geoffrey Hilton Bowman, James Marshall, Claud Charlton, John Molyneux, Harold Iremonger, George Clive. Excerpt: World War I World War II George Smith Patton, Jr. (also George Smith Patton III) (November 11, 1885 December 21, 1945) was a United States Army officer most famous for his leadership commanding corps and armies as a general in World War II. He was also widely known for his controversial outspokenness. Patton was commissioned in the U.S. Army upon graduation from the U.S. Military Acad...