General George S. Patton survived the battlefields of World War II but suffered a fatal injury in a low-speed car crash in ...

George S. Patton once said he did not measure a man's success by how high he climbed, but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom. It is the kind of line that gets stitched onto motivational ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but ...

Patton truly expressed a very similar thought, albeit with a different ending. The original quote, which can be found in his posthumous 1947 memoir, "War as I Knew It," read: "May God have mercy upon ...

Benjamin W. Patton stands with his father, Gen. George Patton in 1978 at the North Africa American Cemetery in Tunisia. His grandfather, Gen. George S. Patton commanded the U.S. II Corps in 1943.

George S. Patton, who was the son of the famous World War II general and who became a major general in the Army himself, died June 27 at his home in Hamilton, Mass., at age 80. He had a degenerative ...

Most of the new material about World War II in the past 30 years has come from two primary sources: the Russian and Eastern European archives opened since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the personal ...

“No matter where we moved,” wrote Beatrice Patton of her husband seven years after his death in 1945, “there was never enough room for the books. We were indeed lucky that an army officer’s ...