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PATTON
Copyright 2020 by The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Printed and bound in the United States of America
All rights reserved. First printing, 2020.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Daniel, J. Furman, III, author.
Title: Patton : battling with history / by J. Furman Daniel, III.
Other titles: Battling with history
Description: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2020] | Series: American military experience | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019041406 (print) | LCCN 2019041407 (ebook) | ISBN 9780826222091 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780826274458 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945. | Generals--United States--Biography. | United States. Army--Biography.
Classification: LCC E745.P3 D353 2020 (print) | LCC E745.P3 (ebook) | DDC 355.0092 [B]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041406
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019041407
This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984.
Typefaces: Carlito and Minion
THE AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE SERIES
JOHN C. MCMANUS, SERIES EDITOR
The books in this series portray and analyze the experience of Americans in military service during war and peacetime from the onset of the twentieth century to the present. The series emphasizes the profound impact wars have had on nearly every aspect of recent American history and considers the significant effects of modern conflict on combatants and noncombatants alike. Titles in the series include accounts of battles, campaigns, and wars; unit histories; biographical and autobiographical narratives; investigations of technology and warfare; studies of the social and economic consequences of war; and in general, the best recent scholarship on Americans in the modern armed forces. The books in the series are written and designed for a diverse audience that encompasses nonspecialists as well as expert readers.
Selected titles from this series:
Lessons Unlearned:
The U.S. Armys Role in Creating the Forever Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pat Proctor
Loss and Redemption at St. Vith:
The 7th Armored Division in the Battle of the Bulge
Gregory Fontenot
Military Realism: The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the US Army
Peter Campbell
Omar Nelson Bradley: Americas GI General, 18931981
Steven L. Ossad
The First Infantry Division and the US Army Transformed: Road to Victory in Desert Storm, 19701991
Gregory Fontenot
Bataan Survivor: A POWs Account of Japanese Captivity in World War II
Frank A. Blazich
Dick Coles War: Doolittle Raider, Hump Pilot, Air Commando
Dennis R. Okerstrom
To the strong, beautiful, and intelligent women who made this book possible, Anna Scott Hook, Mary Hook Berry, and Christina Capacci-Daniel.
OVER THE PAST decade, many of my friends and colleagues have given me the heartfelt advice that writing is a lonely endeavor. I have not found this to be the case. On the contrary, this work would have been impossible without many generous people who were dedicated to my success and supported my efforts.
The entire team at the University of Missouri Press, especially Mary S. Conley, Andrew J. Davidson, Gary Kass, Drew Griffith, and series editor John C. McManus, have made extraordinary efforts to improve my writing, encourage me, and shepherd this book to production. Without their patience and dedication, this book would not have been possible.
Special thanks are in order for Amanda Morgan and the staff at the General George Patton Museum of Leadership at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Despite my procrastination, they went above and beyond to help me obtain many of the photos that brought this book to life.
I have been extremely blessed by my colleagues at George Washington University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Doug Evans, Thomas Field, Tom Foley, Tyrone Groh, Geoff Jensen, Phil Jones, Reg Parker, Brooke Shannon, Joanna Spear, and Lisa Stephenson. Each of them has made coming to work an intellectual challenge and true pleasure.
In addition to these colleagues, two other members of the Embry-Riddle community deserve special attention. Leanne Harworth filled dozens of interlibrary loan requests with an uncommon speed and joy, and Dale Perez provided edits and corrections with a much-needed sense of humor.
I am also blessed by my friends and mentors who helped me with the project and at times distracted me from it: Joe Collins, Elliott Fullmer, GatorGreenwill, Paul Musgrave, Jay Parker, Richard Rodriguez, and countless others have made my life richer and more enjoyable.
Special thanks are due to Brian A. Smith. In addition to being one of my best friends, he is my best critic. Thanks for being the older brother I never had.
Most important, I want to thank the three women to whom this book is dedicated. My grandmother Anna Scott Hook was a brilliant lady and a true trailblazer. She earned two masters degrees in an era where educated females were not appreciated. She had the strength to serve as a ministers wife for parts of six decades and chose to teach in underprivileged and segregated schools because it was the right thing to do. She had a gift for history, and in 1991 she unknowingly put me on the path to where I am today by talking to me about Jackie Fisher.
My mother, Mary Hook Berry, is a similarly brilliant lady. She possesses a creativity and passion for education that I can only hope to emulate. She taught me kindness, faith, and pride in a job well done. While she often wondered about why her boy wanted to study conflict, she loved me for who I was. Even as a grown man, I look to her for inspiration.
Finally, my wife, Christina Capacci-Daniel, is my best friend and intellectual foil. We met on my first day of grad school while she was earning her doctorate in organic chemistry. She has loved, supported, and encouraged me from day one. She has helped me through difficult times of intellectual, financial, and personal hardship and has made every day a true blessing. She truly is my raison dtre.
There is always something to do. For example, read about war.
George S. Patton Jr., Obligations of Being an Officer,
October 1, 1919
The Historians Challenge
ACCORDING TO LEGEND, a young Captain Patton had one of his many interactions with the supernatural while riding to a secret meeting in early 1918. Despite his youth, he was one of the top officers in the newly formed tank corps, and his presence was required to help incorporate these untested units into the Allied strategy for the new year. The meeting was set to take place at night, some eighty miles from Pattons headquarters, in a part of France where he had never been. While he may have been nervous about serving as an advocate for the tank corps and interacting with many top Allied leaders, his mind was supposedly transported to visions of the past.
As his car crested a hill, Patton asked the driver if the camp wasnt out of sight just over the hill and to the right. The driver was taken back by this question and replied, No sir, our camp where we are going is further ahead, but there is an old Roman camp over there to the right. I have seen it myself. After his meeting with the senior Allied generals concluded, Patton was again purportedly struck by a sense of the supernatural. As he exited the meeting, he asked a French officer, Your theater is over here straight ahead, isnt it? Much like the driver, the officer was struck by the unusual question and replied, We have no theater here, but I do know that there is an old Roman theater only about three hundred yards away.
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