Patton's Third Army and the Battles That Shaped Europe. Posted: May 15, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025. ... Map shows areas hit by blackouts from "colossal" solar flare.

One reason: Patton’s Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch’s Seventh Army had rung up one of the big victories of the war in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, had removed more than 150,000 ...

While an Army band played on Saturday, soldiers in vintage World War II uniforms boarded an amphibious boat from the 1940s named “Tugboat Annie” and sailed down the Rhine, in honor of the ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Gen. George Patton’s Third Army faced little resistance as it advanced through southwest Germany into a small industrial city scarred from years of Allied bombing ...

From there, bridgeheads were set up as far south as Worms and north of Oppenheim in Boppard and St. Goar. Patton’s Third army had over 230,000 men and included hundreds of tanks.

Patton was worried about something on the morning of Dec. 22 when he summoned Metcalf to his headquarters in France. Metcalf supervised 400 chaplains in Patton’s Third Army.

Col. Geoffrey Keyes, right, and Gen. George S. Patton look over a map in field headquarters during army maneuvers in South Carolina in 1941 during World War II. (AP Photo) Likewise, football doesn ...

In 78 hours last week units of General Patton’s Third Army swept over the Marne near ... dropping eight tons of maps ofGermany to Lieut. General George S. Fatten Jr.’stroops last week as they ...

General George S. Patton's Third Army came to life in Europe this week back in 1944 and played a pivotal role in the Allies' breakout from the Normandy region of northern France. It had been slow ...

This map from UPI shows the 50-mile stretch of the Normandy coastline that was divided into five sectors: Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. American troops attacked Utah and Omaha beaches.

Stencilled on it is 3A 702, which stands for Third Army, 702nd Tank Battalion, the unit who become known as "Patton’s Troubleshooters", and the brothers like to imagine the general himself may ...