157 Copy quote I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. Death, in time, comes to allmen. All the men with riflesand helmets, the altar the back of a jeep. . It's not called "Blood and Guts: An American General". April 14 Patton was promoted to the permanent rank of general. . A United Press correspondent reported: Patton was buried in what he himself once called damned poor tank country and damned bad weather. But he was buried in precision-like military ceremony, touched by pomp and tendered by grief. But we are not ruthless, not vicious, not aggressive, therein lies our weakness. An armored divisionis that element of the team which carries out therunning plays. Men this stuff that some sources sling around aboutAmerica wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight,is a crock of bullshit. General George S. Patton himself would most certainly have approved of 10-year-old Rohn Zenner's recital of his famous "Blood and Guts" speech in front of veterans, family members and. Prayer does not have to take place in church, but can be offered any-where. 5. I want the praying done., Chaplain ONeill: Yes, sir. That is fearless and untiring in doing our duty as we see it.Patton concluded with a list of recommendations for good behavior and decorum, essentially acting as Colonel Manners. Two days later, the U.S. armies in Europe were engaged in the greatest battle ever fought by American forces. The soldier who cracks up does not need sympathy or comfort as much as he needs strength. A week before the Rhine crossing, General Patton had held a press conference in which he delivered a classic performance, mixing the humorous, provocative, and the profane. We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the bestspirit, and the best men in the world. 1943 March 6 Patton was named the commanding officer of the US II Corps. The two men bonded over their shared military enthusiasm and love of strategy. Many elements of the speech were recycled over and over. Sure we want to go home. You won them; I as your representative wear them. Patton joined the Second Armored Division at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1940. July 1 Patton was promoted to the permanent rank of major. One of his first acts as commanderhad been to build an amphitheater in the wooded hills of Fort Benningthat could accommodate the entire division. General Patton knew his entrance into German-occupied territory was of monumental historical importance. That way I can keep firing my pistols! Many elements of the speech were recycled over and over. . When he first arrives in North Africa at the beginning of the film, he is just receiving his promotion to lieutenant general (three stars), which he remains until April 14, 1945, less than a month from V-E day. March 23 Patton, as commanding officer of the American Tank School in France, received his first 10 light tanks by train. . . General George S. Patton, the famous war-time leader, died not from wounds in battle but rather from a car accident. We want this war over with. Patton is a 1970 film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and co-written by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the life of General George S. Patton and starring George C. Scott in his most iconic role. World War Two Timeline From The Great War To Germanys Surrender, When Patton Enlisted the Entire Third Army to Pray for Fair Weather, California Do not sell my personal information. 1940 April 1 Served as Umpire, Spring Maneuvers, Fort Benning, Georgia. 3. An Army is a team. It was quite impressive. However, they did get across and Napoleon crossed at about the same place and also lost his baggage when the wind shifted. A heavy ivory-handled revolver rested in a shoulder holsterdraped under his left arm. At 1900, Eddy and Grow came to the house to beg me to call off the attack due to the bad weather, heavy rains, and swollen rivers. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for . 1. A man has to have intake as well. The cards and Training Letter No. By June 1920, the regular army was reduced to only 130,000 men. 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. This article is part of our larger selection of postsabout the George S. Patton. Alden Hatch's biography traces Patton's life from his California childhood to his accidental death in Germany shortly after the end of World War II. Dont ever think that your job is unimportant. We were taken through this by the librarian. 1915 February 28 Pattons second child, Ruth Ellen Patton Totten, was born. The real hero is the man whofights even though he is scared . . The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers both the Tomb of Christ and also the place where the Cross stood. She, though Patton paid scant attention to this, came from a wealthy family. If we all pray, it will be like what Dr. Carrel said, it will be like plugging in on a current whose source is in Heaven. When Kublai Khan attacked the Japanese island of Kyushu with his fleet of forty-four hundred ships in 1281, he encountered a typhoon that destroyed half his fleet. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as ateam. Coy Eklund, an officer on Pattons staff, confirms a story about Pattons insistence on inspirational sermons: It is no myth that one Sunday morning, after attending church services as he always did, he stalked into my office in the Army barracks in Nancy, France, where I was the senior duty officer. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the Both chaplains and men are removed from a special building with a steeple. Every manis a vital link in the great chain. Not surprisingly, the chaplain concluded his sermon exactly ten minutes later. The best is the enemy of the good was one of his favorite maxims. I should be both ungrateful and wanting in candor if I failed to acknowledge the debt we owe to our Chiefs of Staff, Generals Gaffey and Gay, and to the officers and men of the General and Special Staff Sections of Army Headquarters. Why, by God, Iactually pity those poor sons of bitches were going upagainst. We had about 486 chaplains in the Third Army at that time, representing 32 denominations. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stayalive. From the Tomb we went to the Crusaders Chapel where those who became Knights of Jerusalem were knighted. My men dont dig foxholes. Somelines became classic. The quicker they are whipped,the quicker we can go home. it is the call of ones [sic] ancestors and the glory of combat. Remember that theenemy is just as frightened as you are, and probablymore so. . General James Rusling, "Interview with President William McKinley," The Christian Advocate 22 January 1903, 17. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. The public Patton was brash, self-confident, and boastful. His most importantpriority was training men for war. Patton was carried off to an ambulance. The Allied war effort was virtually shut down for five days. After a vigorous debate, Bradley conceded. He had now achieved his destiny, joining the legions of ancestorsbefore him. The two men once took a tank completely apart, down to the nuts and bolts, and reassembled it, apparently to satisfy their curiosity and to understand every detail of its intricate assembly. We urge its practice. May 1 Served as Control Officer, Maneuvers, Fort Beauregard, Louisiana. Patton arrived in Europe in 1917 as a captain. Patton made the same point a few years later, after the invasion of Sicily: I had all the non-Catholic chaplains in the other day and gave them hell for having uninteresting services. The Third Army has no roster of Retreats. . ARTICLES; FEATURED; May 29, 2015 Ivano Massari, Guest Author. From here we went to the place where the Cross had stood. An armored division is the most powerful organizationever devised by the mind of men . Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. Of the hundred andfifty soldiers, only six followed him, one of whom was his orderly,Private Joseph Angelo. We were lucky in Africa, in Sicily, and in Italy. The Famous Patton Speech By Charles M. Province . Peace was another matter. Let every bullet find its billetit is the body of your foes. April 11 Patton was made the commanding officer of the 2nd Armored Division. Patton was so harsh to everyone that during this time he got nicknamed "Old Blood and Guts". Be seated. Pattons prayers, however, reflected his deep and sincere faith in God. It is power.. Patton was known as "Blood & Guts" ("Our blood, his guts"), was a common gripe among his troops for his hard-driving discipline, which paid off in lower casualties and great success on the battlefield. On 1 October 1919, Patton gave a speech to the Tank Corps on The Obligation of Being an Officer. It touched on Pattons grand view of the profession of arms: Does it not occur to you gentlemen that we . He even directed his chief chaplain to send out a training letter to every unit in the Third Army on the importance of prayer. That is not the way to win battles. Leading an expedition of three cars and ten men whose mission was to buy corn for the soldiers in camp, he organized an impromptu raid that netted him one of Pancho Villas officers and two banditos shot down in a gunfightPatton armed with revolver and rifle. The vow of Humility was got around by the simple expedient of washing a poor mans feet three times. 1918 January 26 Patton was promoted to the temporary rank of major. On the battlefield, he was a competent commander respected by both sides. Simply because people prayed. On the night of March 22, 1945, elements of the Third Army crossed the Rhine at the German town of Oppenheim. Although Patton is most famous for his actions during the Second World War, Patton also participated in the Mexican Revolution and the First World War. Misses do not kill, but a bullet in the heart or a bayonet in the guts do. . With the skill of a methodactor, Patton would also strive to achieve an intimidating mienhiswar facethat would communicate his intensity to his audience. Be assured that this message on prayer has the approval, the encouragement, and the enthusiastic support of the Third United States Army Commander. But the twomen were caught in enemy crossfire, and rescuing Patton seemedimpossible. I do not believe that much praying is being done.. They both contemplated leaving the service, but they both stuck it out, just as a later generation of officers, in the post-Vietnam eramen like Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powellwould again rebuild the army into the worlds greatest military force. Copy. It is run by a composite group consisting of Catholics, Greeks, and Copts, and by a strange freak of chance, or British political insight, the doorkeeper is a Mohammedan. General George S. Patton was a complicated military figure, but there can be little debate over whether he was quotable. the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord". That ONeill sure did some potent praying. In the hospital, Pattons mood alternated between profanity-laced anger and black humor. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory, and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies and establish Thy justice among men and nations. But we have to pray for ourselves, too. By that I mean that the riflemanwants to shoot, the tanker wants to charge, the artillerymanto fire . SOLDIERS OF THE THIRD ARMY, PAST AND PRESENT During the 281 days of incessant and victorious combat, your penetrations have advanced farther in less time than any other army in history. . . I will run the school. . 1917 May 15 Patton was promoted to the rank of captain. Many of his associates, including Eisenhower, felt that "Old Blood and Guts" showed increasing signs of mental imbalance. The 1970 film "Patton" starts out the way the real Gen. George S. Patton would have wanted it to: with one of the famed general's off-the-cuff, down-to-reality speeches to his men in the 3rd Army. He had not failed them. December 16 Patton was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. In addition to the Stations of the Cross used by the Catholics, the Greeks have a number of extra ones, so that it is practically a days trip for a Greek priest to walk down the street, as they have to stop in front of each station. . Douglas MacArthur had a spirit of intense determination. Patton was as much an actor as he was a fine general. See if we cant get God to work on our side., Chaplain ONeill: Sir, its going to take a pretty thick rug for that kind of praying., General Patton: I dont care if it takes a flying carpet. It worked out more or less that way, with Patton the first officeror soldier of any rank in the United States Armyassigned to the Tank Corps, where he was charged with establishing the First Army Tank School. He attended the West Point Military Academy but along with his friend, Courtney Hodges, was forced to leave after a year because of poor test results. We got through on good old American guts. From Beersheba we flew over Hebron and Bethlehem and turned westward just south of Jerusalem, finally landing at Aqir, near the coast, where we were met with some cars and driven thirty miles to Jerusalem. . In proudly contemplating our achievements, let us never forget our heroic dead whose graves mark the course of our victorious advances, nor our wounded whose sacrifices aided so much in our success. One cannot read Pattons diaries, letters, speeches, and personal papers without being struck by the frequency with which he appeals to God and turns to the Bible for inspiration. Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. Old "Blood and Guts" himself, about whom many a colorful chapter would be written for the school boys of tomorrow. Be Seated. 2. Pattons army was victorious at El Guettar, and the Germans learned that the United States Army, led by its new commander, was no longer to be taken lightly. George S. Patton was one of America's most famous and colorful generals. But we are not stopping at the Siegfried Line. On reaching Jerusalem, we were met by Major General D. F. McConnell, who commands the district. We are advancing constantlyand we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemys balls! George S. Patton as a lieutenant general Patton's Speech to the Third Army, alternatively known simply as "Patton's Speech" or "The Speech", was a series of speeches given by General George S. Patton to troops of the United States Third Army in 1944, prior to the Normandy Landings. As fresh gunfireerupted, all the soldiers but Patton leapt back into the security of thetrench. When Patton had completed all his preparations for battle, he turned to the Bible and entrusted everything, including the weather, to God. Patton's "Blood and Guts" Speech - History (2022) Loading. He was in most respects a traditional Christian, but he had an unshakeable belief in reincarnation and asserted that he had lived former lives throughout historyalways as a soldier. George S. Patton. 2. then they will organize a battalion and I will command it. His strength lay not in his military might, but in his recognition of Gods proper claims upon his life. . . There is one great thing you men will be able to saywhen you go home. I was shotin the behind in World War I! . The events of the war stayed with him the rest of his life. There are three ways that men get what they want; by planning, by working, and by Praying. Even in the heat of combat he could take time out to direct new methods to prevent trench feet, to see to it that dry socks went forward daily with the rations to troops on the line, to kneel in the mud administering morphine and caring for a wounded soldier until the ambulance came. They were waiting for the arrival of that legendary figure, Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr. Old "Blood and Guts" himself, about whom many a colorful chapter would be written for the school boys of tomorrow. Sergeant Mims, his regular driver, was in the hospital, and a substitute was at the wheel. Every single man in this Army plays a vitalrole . General George S. Patton Jr. was buried at mid-morning on December 24, 1945, in a grave dug by German prisoners of war. Foxholesonly slow up an offensive. There were enough supplies, however, for one army. The one honor which is mine and mine alone is that of having commanded such an incomparable group of Americans, the record of whose fortitude, audacity, and valor will endure as long as history lasts. A break in the weather on June 6 allowed the amphibious assault on Normandy to proceed. There is something in every soldier that goes deeper than thinking or workingits his guts. It is something that he has built in there: it is a world of truth and power that is higher than himself. All men and women of the six corps and thirty-nine divisions that have at different times been members of this Army have done their duty. Brad, for Gods sake tell the world were across . . All men are afraid in battle. Both men were commanding tank units. All in all, Patton had had a quite satisfactory war. . But it was not just a speech, it was a performance. December 8 Patton calls Chaplain James H. ONeill and asks if he has a good prayer for weather., December 1214 Prayer cards are distributed to Pattons troops, asking, Grant us fair weather for battle.. As a career military man, Patton couldnt help but be fascinated by theircustoms. Frustrated by British forces' slow progress in Sicily, Patton ignores orders to stay by their side and . We are better-equipped, bet-ter fed, and in the place of his blood-gutted Woten, we have with us the God of our fathers known of old. June 6, 1944 - Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. I want a prayer.. What separates this book from all of the many about World War II's most famous battle commander is the extensive use of exquisite B&W combat photos on every spread, which illuminate the text on those pages. Americans love a winner. July 24 Patton served as Commanding Officer, 5th Cavalry, Fort Clark, Texas. Pray alone. They are awfully thrilling like steeple chasing only more so.He was promoted to colonel. . Descended. He is remembered for his heroic march to halt the Nazi's December 1944 offensive in the Battle of the Bulge and also for slapping Sergeant Charles Kuhl and Private Paul Bennett, August 1943, for cowardice while they were in an army hospital. His active military duty lasted from 1909 to 1945. 62 of 70 found this interesting | Share this So Patton called Bradley again. . . . Patton was never one to delay an attack, convinced that each days delay gave the enemy more time to prepare. I should think the distance is less than half a mile. . In February 1944, Overlord planners at Supreme Allied Headquarters had formulated a planOperation Fortitude Southto deceive the Nazi commanders intothinking that the Norman landings were merely a feint to draw German defenders away from a main Allied invasion at Pas de Calais. To learn more,click here for our comprehensive guide to General Patton. Occupation Zone after World War II. His neck was broken. The weather was still clear when we walked into General Pattons office. The general then continued, Chaplain, sit down for a moment. However, if he was a successful knight, he received from the Order more than a hundredfold over what he gave, so that most of them died very rich. To their surprise, they were not opposed by enemy forces. There is one great thing you men will be able to saywhen you go home. For Patton, God was not a distant and impersonal being but a companion with whom he had a personal relationship. Pray for victory. He wrote to Pershing, reminding him that he was the only American who has ever made an attack in a motor vehicle8 (he was referring to the motorized ambush he had led in Mexico), that his fluency in French meant he could read French tank manuals and converse with and take instruction from French tank officers, that he was good with engines, and that as tanks were the new cavalry it was an appropriate branch for a cavalry officer like himself. We have no memory of a lost battle to hand on to our children from this great campaign. Patton spent his years after the war going from base to base as a control officer for mechanized maneuvers as a brigadier general. He was dying, but he had nofear of death. But Patton would have none of this. Pattons Third Army could attack twenty-four hours after getting the signal. . Part of our passion was our belief in tanksa belief derided at the time by others.The two men shared a detailed knowledge of the mechanical workings of tanks and an appreciation of their potential strategic uses beyond mere assistance to the infantry. He asked her what time it was, and when she told him, he said that he was tired and told her she should go eat dinner; they could finish the chapter when she returned. We have no intention to reduce our vast striking force. Prayer out here is difficult. Blood. The Nazis are the enemy. The crossguard and the shape of the blade were correct. All real . You have fought your way across 24 major rivers and innu-merable lesser streams. His diary entry for November 7, 1944, reads: Two years ago today we were on the Augusta approaching Africa, and it was blowing hard. It appears as a footnote in War As I Knew It, a book based on Pattons diaries and published in 1947, after his death. After two hours, Pattons tankers and the 138th Regiment of theThirty-fifth Division subdued the Germans and seized the village ofCheppy. This is a helluva way to die, General Patton told Gay. December 20 Weather in the Ardennes cleared. He was laid next to a Third Army soldier who had been killed in combat during the Battle of the Bulge. . Between the bursts ofmachine gun fire Patton could hear the excited conversations of Germansoldiers who had just taken up a position in a trench a mere fortyyards away. God has His part, or margin, in everything. Thats why Americans havenever lost and will never lose a war; for the very idea oflosing is hateful to an American. Getty Images. The vow of Poverty required him to give four-fifths of his then estate to the Order. Some officers found his use of obscenities in the speech disappointing, viewing it as unprofessional conduct. Eisenhower, on the other hand, was usually underrated, his easygoing manner masking a burning ambition. It would be better to attack as soon as Bradley could provide him with supplies. As he came closer to the German lines, Patton was hit. In this eviscerated post-war army, trying to build support for the tank proved an impossible task. We must ask God to stop these rains. October 3 Patton joined 3d Cavalry at Fort Myer, Virginia, as Commanding Officer, 3d Squadron. Americans love a winner. The Third Armys sick rate equaled its battle casualty rate. At the end of 1943, while Pattons commanders were deciding his fate, the allied leadersRoosevelt, Churchill, and Stalinmet in Tehran to discuss strategy for defeating Germany and plans for the postwar world. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower, General George S. Patton, and General Omar N. Bradley engineered the Allied conquest that shattered Hitler's hold over Europe. And dontgive the enemy time to dig one either. 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