George Patton Research Paper

The United States of America is known as the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is a Country where its citizens fight for what they believe in and it has one of the best militaries in the world. There have been many great leaders in the military for the different conflicts that the United States of America has been a part of. Out of all the great leaders there has been none like General George S. Patton Jr. His leadership style, experiences in combat and tactics on and off the battle field made him a deadly enemy to anyone that was fighting against him. He had participated in the pursuit of Pancho Villa, he led troops in World War I and World War II. He was an amazing tactician and had a different leadership style from other Generals.

John’s Episcopal Church at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts he did just that. Patton would go on to have daughters and a son with Beatrice that were named Beatrice Ayer, Ruth Ellen Patton and George Patton IV. In 1912 Patton went to Stockholm, Sweden to compete in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games where he was representing the United States Army. In the pentathlon Patton had to do a five thousand meter steeplechase, shot a pistol on a twenty-five meter range, compete in fencing, swim three hundred meters and run four thousand meters. Out of forty-two competitors from around the world, Patton finished the pentathlon in fifth

On November 10, 1917 Patton was placed in charge of the American Tank Service and was being ordered to start an American tank school after he completed his training on tanks. Tanks were a new weapon and had not really been tested but Patton believed that his chances of being promoted higher would best be with tanks. “On August 24, 1918 Patton officially organized the 304th Tank Brigade.” Patton was unlike any other Leader in this war. Captain Patton with his staff would press forward on foot with the advancement of his tank brigade. On September 11, 1918 Patton gave one of his motivating speeches to his troops which he will become well known for. Then on September 26, 1918 Patton gave orders to his tank brigade to advance during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in France. During this battle Patton and six other men advanced on the enemy lines ahead of his tank brigade. Out of the six men five were wounded or killed. Patton was one of the men that had been wounded. A round had entered thru his left thigh and exited near his ass causing him to start losing a large amount of blood. The other soldier that had come unwounded in the advanced bandaged Patton’s wound up and wanted to try and get him back to safety but Patton refused. Patton made the soldier run back to the tank brigade and give the position of the German machine gun nest.