Poole Lafayette - Biography. Tank heroes of the Second World War Current game description of the Belter medal
On July 23, 1919, Lafayette John Poole was born into a family of simple American farmers in a place called Odham, Texas. He spent his childhood in the town of Taft, where he attended high school. In 1938, after graduating, our hero entered college to major in engineering. While Poole was attending college in Europe, World War II was raging. America had not yet entered the war, but militaristic sentiments were already popular among American youth. On this emotional wave, having dropped out of college, Lafayette enlisted in the army on June 13, 1941. He underwent basic military training in the town of San Antonio. He was then sent to Camp Beauregard, Louisiana, to the newly formed 3rd Armored Division, where he was assigned to the 1st Company, 32nd Armored Regiment. In 1942, Poole mastered the new M4 Sherman tanks. Observing the ingenuity and agility of their subordinate, Lafayette’s commanders advise him to undergo training as an officer, but he categorically refuses because of his desire to go to the front. His wish was destined to come true; the division received orders to be loaded for shipment to England. Having suffered enough from seasickness, the tankers entered British soil. During preparations for the landing, Poole's crew gave their tank the name "In the mood". Later this name would be assigned to all Lafayette cars.
One of Poole's tanks is an M4A1 Sherman with a 76mm gun, with the inscription "IN THE MOOD" on the side.
In June 1944, together with his unit, Poole landed in Normandy. Already on June 29, part of Lafayette received a baptism of fire in the area of the French town of Saint-Lo. Here the Americans met stubborn resistance from soldiers of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich", and during fierce battles the allied offensive stopped. During this battle, Poole's tank was hit by German panzergrenadiers using a Fauspatron; by luck, none of the crew were injured.
Another "Sherman" Poole (it's to the left of the tower) on one of the Belgian roads.
Soon Lafayette and his crew received a new tank, the M4A1(76)W, better known as the Sherman Firefly. The vehicle was equipped with a long-barreled 76-mm cannon, which allowed the Allies to fight the German Panthers and Tigers, which caused many problems. During the next offensive, Poole chalked up about three armored vehicles and about 70 infantry. Our hero's crew consisted of simple guys: driver-mechanic private first class Richards, assistant driver - turret gunner Corporal Klos, gunner Corporal Oller and loading technician fifth class Boggs. The crew of Poole's tank was a single organism, it seemed that their hearts were beating in tune. Once, during redeployment under the cover of darkness, Lafayette's tank was on the verge of destruction. In the darkness of the night, the tankers did not notice the position of a German anti-aircraft gun, located 15 meters from the road. Poole immediately commanded: “Driver, stop! Shooter, fire! Oller, whose eyes literally merged with the sight, instantly aimed the gun at the target. There was a shot, a loud explosion, and fragments of a German gun clattered on the armor. Some time later, the 3rd Armored Division took part in the operation to encircle the German group in the Falaise pocket. One day, a column of Shermans moving along one of the country roads, which also contained Lafayette’s tank, was mistakenly attacked by its own attack aircraft. As a result, Poole again lost his combat vehicle.
The moment Lafayette Poole was awarded the Legion of Honor, France, 1946.
During the next offensive in the area of the town of Kolombe, the crew of Lafayette met one-on-one with the Panther. The battle turned out to be almost a bayonet fight, at a distance of about 200 meters. Nervous, the gunner of the German tank took poor aim and two Panther shells flew past the target. The Sherman's only accurate shot turned out to be fatal; as a result of the hit, the ammunition exploded. As it turned out later, the Allies ran into units of the 2nd Panzer Division “Das Reich” in this area. Poole's crew was able to chalk up two more tanks and two armored vehicles over the next few days.
On September 19, 1944, as part of the breakthrough of the Siegfried Line, Poole's tank was one of the first to break into the defensive positions of German troops. This time the tanker's luck ran out. The Panther's first shot jammed the turret, and the second hit set the Sherman on fire. Lafayette was seriously wounded. Unconscious, he was pulled out of the burning car by the remaining crew members and loaded onto an armored vehicle of the 3rd Armored Division that arrived in time. Poole remained in a coma for another 19 days in a Belgian military hospital. Doctors managed to save the tank ace, but not his right leg, which had to be amputated.
During his short combat career from June 27 to September 15, 1944 (81 days in total!), Poole, together with his crew, participated in 21 tank attacks, chalking up: 258 units of various enemy equipment (including about 15 tanks and self-propelled guns), about 1000 destroyed enemy soldiers and about 250 prisoners. For his courage and valor on the battlefield, Lafayette Poole was awarded numerous government awards from the United States, France and Belgium.
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New medals and in-game awards will be added to game content 0.8.0, namely analogues of the Belter medal: Radley-Walters (for 8-9 destroyed tanks) and Pula(for 10-14 destroyed tanks).
Current in-game description of the Belter Medal
Game description of the Poole medal in WoT 0.8.0
Awarded to the player who destroys 10–14 enemy tanks and self-propelled guns in one battle. Goals of level 4 and higher count.
Lafayette J. Poole- American tank ace. During his participation in hostilities, he knocked out and destroyed 258 German armored vehicles and automobiles.
Lafayette J. Poole(Lafayette G. Pool) - staff sergeant, master of tank combat of the 3rd US Tank Division, commander of the M4 Sherman tank. During the short 81 days of fighting during World War II (from 27 June to 15 September 1944), Poole's crew participated in 21 tank attacks and during this time destroyed 258 German armored vehicles and vehicles, of which at least 12 tanks and assault guns ( Tank destroyer), captured 250 soldiers and officers, destroyed more than a thousand enemy soldiers. Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
During the fighting, Poole and his crew replaced three of the newest Sherman tanks at that time with a long-barreled 3-inch gun - the M4A1(76)W Sherman. All three tanks were called “In the mood”. The first tank was hit by a German infantryman using a German Panzerfaust disposable grenade launcher, the remaining two tanks were destroyed by Panther tanks from long distances. During the last battle, Staff Sergeant Lafayette J. Poole was severely wounded in the leg and was discharged from the US military in 1946, but returned to duty in 1948 and served as an instructor with the 3rd Armored Division at Fort Knox, Kentucky. In 1960, Chief Warrant Officer 2nd Class Lafayette J. Poole retired from the US Army.
Poole, sitting on the right side of the turret with his In The Mood tank crew. The photo was taken on September 8, 1944, on the day of the liberation of the Belgian city of Liege. Tank crew: tank commander - Staff Sergeant Lafayette G. Pool, driver - Private 1st Class Wilbert Richards, co-driver and machine gunner gunner - Corporal Bert Close, gunner - Corporal Willis Oller, loader - Technician 5th Class Del Boggs.
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Lafayette Pool- American tanker who destroyed over 250 units of German equipment. True, among this equipment there are only 12 tanks, the rest are light armored vehicles, cars, trucks, etc. However, despite the rather modest number of victories over enemy tanks (12 in total), this tanker certainly deserves attention as one of the representatives of the American tank school of the Second World War. The combat career of one of the best American tankers began at the Camp Burgard training base in Louisiana. After completing training courses, Lafayette Poole is assigned to the emerging US Third Armored Division. Poole became a tank commander and, in the summer of 1944, he and his crew landed in Normandy on a Sherman tank during the grand Allied operation to open a second front against Germany.
Your first battle with the enemy crew Lafayette Poole spends near the French town of Saint-Lo. This first skirmish with the enemy turns out to be unsuccessful - Poole's tank pierces a German Faustnik shell and the combat vehicle breaks down. However, none of the crew members were even injured. Soon Poole receives a new tank and again enters into battle with the enemy. He takes part in the Falaise operation of the Allies. The Germans put up vigorous resistance, constantly counterattacked and did not retreat even under the threat of encirclement, which was due to Hitler’s personal order. This ultimately cost them the loss of a huge group of up to 150 thousand people surrounded. In these difficult battles, Lafayette Poole loses his second vehicle - the tank column in which Poole's tank was moving is subjected to a powerful airstrike by Nazi aircraft, the tank breaks down, but this time its crew is intact. Having received a new tank, Lafayette Poole once again finds himself in the heat of battle. In one of the battles, his "Sherman" confronts a German medium tank "Panther" one-on-one. Poole's crew is very lucky - the German tank fires several shots at the Sherman, but not one of them hits the target. But the gunner in Poole's crew rises to the occasion - and the American shell pierces the German armor. The destroyed Panther becomes the first victory of Lafayette Poole's crew and the first German tank in his personal account.
There are several more episodes that illustrate the successful actions of Lafayette Poole's crew. For example, during battles in Belgium, Poole’s tank, while moving as part of a convoy, was ambushed. A single German Panther is firing at the American column. Poole reacts immediately and hits the German tank with an accurate shot. The battles in the Namur region, also in Belgium, also brought Poole new victories - his crew knocked out several German self-propelled guns and armored vehicles, in total disabling about 20 enemy military equipment. As we see, Poole and his crew successfully operated in battles with German troops for a long time.
However, the war has already determined the future fate American tanker Lafayette Poole. In battles in northwestern Germany in Westphalia, his Sherman was caught in the crosshairs of a German anti-tank gun. The Germans stopped the tank with two shots and it caught fire. Apparently the second shell pierced the Sherman's fuel tanks, causing the fire. The seriously wounded Poole was pulled out of the tank by one of his comrades. American doctors managed to save the life of Lafayette Poole, but the tanker lost his right leg - it had to be amputated. He spent almost half a month unconscious in a hospital bed. In January 1945, a recovered Poole returned to the United States. Even though he was disabled, he would be drafted back into the army, as a technical specialist, where he would serve until 1960. Lafayette Poole died in May 1991 and is buried in Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in Texas.
Patton was born on November 11, 1885, the son of lawyer George S. Patton and Ruth Wilson.
He was a relative of American General Waller Patton, a Southerner who died at the Battle of Gettysburg. Patton's grandfather, also George Patton, commanded the 22nd Virginia Infantry during the Civil War.
As a child, George Patton had difficulty learning to read and write, although in adulthood he was known to be an avid reader (historian Alan Axelrod notes that this may have been a consequence of dyslexia). He was educated at home until, at the age of eleven, he was sent to the Stephen Clark School in Pasadena, where he studied for six years. During my school years I was fond of reading military historical literature about the exploits of Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Napoleon Bonaparte and Scipio. From 1903 to 1904 he studied at the Virginia Military Institute. In 1909, Patton graduated from the Military Academy at West Point. He took part in the 1912 Olympic Games and took fifth place in the modern pentathlon competition. George Patton began his military career as a cavalry lieutenant in 1913. He served as aide-de-camp to General Pershing during the expedition to Mexico in 1916-1917.
When the United States entered World War I, General Pershing promoted Patton to the rank of captain. Later, at the request of Patton himself, Pershing assigned him to the newly formed United States Tank Corps. The Battle of Cambrai took place in 1917, where tanks were used as a significant force for the first time. Since the American Tank Corps did not take part in this battle, Patton was most likely assigned the role of observer in this battle.
For his services (and his organization of a training school for American tank forces in Langres, France), Patton was promoted to the rank of major and then to the rank of lieutenant colonel, after which he served in the American Tank Corps. The corps, then part of the American Expeditionary Forces, later became part of the 1st US Army.
He also took part in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel in September 1918, where he was wounded by a bullet while requesting assistance for a group of tanks stuck in impenetrable mud. The bullet hit the upper gluteal muscle and went right through; Years later, at parties among military personnel, Patton would sometimes lower his uniform pants and show his scar, calling himself a “half-assed general.” After undergoing treatment, Patton returned to duty.
For his participation in the Mesa-Argonne operations, Patton was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and the Distinguished Service Cross and was promoted to colonel. He also received a Purple Heart medal for his combat wound.
While serving in Washington in 1919, Captain (demoted from his temporary military rank of colonel) Patton meets Dwight Eisenhower and becomes his close friend. Eisenhower subsequently played a huge role in Patton's career rise. In the early 1920s. Patton submits a petition to the US Congress demanding increased funding for the country's armored forces, but his idea fails. Patton, at the same time, writes articles on a professional level on the subject of tank combat and general tactics of armored forces, offering new methods and tactics. He also continues his work on improving the tanks themselves, coming up with innovative proposals for radio communications in tanks and improving the design of tank turrets. However, the lack of public interest in tank forces in general and tanks in particular plays a bad role in Patton's promotion, and he returns back to the cavalry.
While the United States was planning its participation in World War II, Patton commanded the 2nd Armored Division, which participated with varying degrees of success in the Louisiana and Carolina maneuvers in 1941. The 2nd Division was stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, until then. moment when she, along with her commander, was ordered to move to the newly created Desert Training Center in Indio, California. The order was issued by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armored Forces, Major General Jacob L. Devers.
Patton is appointed commander of the I Armored Corps by Devers and is in that position by the time the corps is assigned to the Allied invasion force in North Africa.
On June 3, 1942, Patton comes to the conclusion that the Japanese could potentially land at any time on the coast of Mexico, which most recently, on May 22, 1942, joined the anti-Hitler coalition. He is confident that from there the Japanese can advance north so that, with air and ground support, the Japanese Navy can invade the waters of the Gulf of California. In three days, Patton brings his army into minute combat readiness so that at any moment he can protect the country from enemy invasion.
In 1942, Major General Patton commanded the US Army's Western Contingent landing on the coast of Morocco during Operation Torch. Patton and his staff arrived in Morocco aboard the US Navy heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31), which came under fire from the French battleship Jean Bart while entering Casablanca harbor.
After the defeat of the US Second Corps as part of the British First Army in 1943 by the German Afrika Korps at the Battle of Kasserine Gulch, General Dwight Eisenhower assessed the reasons for the failure as outlined in a report from Major General Omar Bradley. As a result of this document, Patton was awarded the rank of lieutenant general, and on March 6, 1943, he was sent to command the Second Corps of the US Armed Forces. Shortly thereafter, Bradley was assigned to his corps headquarters as second-in-command. Thus began a long collaboration between completely different personalities, which could only manifest itself in military conditions.
Roughly training and drilling the units entrusted to him, he was absolutely unpopular among his troops. However, all the soldiers preferred to serve with him, since, in their own opinion, commanding Patton was the best chance of returning home alive.
Both British and American officers noted the "softness" and some decay of discipline in the Second Corps under the command of Lloyd Federal. Patton required every campaigner under his command to wear steel helmets, even civilians in work clothes, and required his troops to wear unpopular trousers and neck ties. Every man was required to shave daily and keep his uniform in proper condition. While these measures did not add to Patton's popularity, they did restore a certain sense of discipline and military pride that had previously been lost. It was then that Patton was given the nickname "Old Blood and Guts".
Disciplinary measures quickly justified themselves. By mid-March, a counter-offensive with the remaining units of the British 1st Army had pushed the Germans much further to the east, while the British 8th Army under the command of General Bernard Law Montgomery in Tunisia liberated North Africa from German troops.
As a result of his successful command of troops in North Africa, Patton was given command of the US 7th Army, already in preparation for the invasion of Sicily. The task of the 7th Army becomes the protection of the left (western) flank of the British 8th Army, while their overall task becomes to advance north and reach Messina.
The Seventh Army repels several German counterattacks in the beachhead area before beginning to advance north. Meanwhile, the 8th Army was halted just south of Etna, unable to advance further due to the powerful German defensive efforts. The commander of the army group, Harold Alexander, could not properly coordinate the actions of the two army commanders; For this reason, Montgomery took the initiative and met with Patton in order to form a unified group and coordinate the actions of the troops.
Patton forms a provisional corps under his command. As a result, the troops quickly advanced through western Sicily, capturing the capital, Palermo, and then marched east to Messina. American troops liberate Messina, in accordance with the plan developed by Montgomery and Patton. However, Italian and German forces had advantages in air power and naval power, and for this reason they were able to evacuate all their soldiers and most of their heavy equipment through the Strait of Messina into mainland Italy.
General Patton was distinguished by sufficient rigidity and even cruelty in relation to the enemy. Patton's bloodthirsty speeches led to him being accused of inciting hatred based on nationality, which led to the Biscara Massacre, a collective name for two incidents in which American soldiers from the 45th Infantry Division killed 74 unarmed Italian prisoners of war and two German prisoners (one of The shooters explained that the motivation for action was the words of General Patton)
The general had to endure much more severe consequences as a result of an incident in the 93rd evacuation hospital, in August 1943, located near the northern coast of Sicily. While visiting the hospital and examining wounded soldiers, he assaulted and verbally abused two army privates being treated in one of the hospital wards. Nowadays, these patients would most likely be diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which in those days was called shell shock. The soldiers had a serious nervous breakdown and had no visible wounds on their bodies.
According to eyewitnesses, Patton unexpectedly appeared at the hospital. After greeting the receiving officer, Major Charles Etter, he walked with him into the tent, which housed fifteen beds with newly admitted patients. Asking questions, he moved along the row of beds. In response to the general's question about how he was doing, the fourth patient, Private Paul Bennett, stated:
“My nerves are crazy. I can hear the shells flying, but there are no explosions.”
In response, Patton hit him and began screaming, calling him and his neighbor cowardly and unworthy of the rank of soldier. In fact, Patton unfairly suspected both of them of what he accused them of.
The journalists who were present at the hospital at that time jointly decided not to publish this incident in the media, but the hospital doctors used their own connections in the command and notified Eisenhower about the incident. General Ike Eisenhower had plans to send Patton back to the United States with a censure, as many newspapers demanded to do, due to the official investigation being unable to keep the public informed about him. However, after consultation with George Marshall, Ike Eisenhower decided to retain Patton, however, removing him from overall command of the force. In addition, Eisenhower ordered Patton to make a formal apology in person to the two soldiers and hospital staff who were present during the incident.
Eisenhower used Patton's "dismissal" as a way to mislead the Germans as to where the troops could strike next. Over the next 10 months, Patton remains in Sicily in prolonged inactivity, he is removed from command and from carrying out his military duty, which the Germans regard as some situational hint of an imminent attack in the south of France. Later, his departure and stay in Cairo would be regarded by the Germans as a sign of preparation for an offensive through the Balkans. German foreign intelligence misinterpreted what was happening and, as a result, made a number of fatal errors in predicting the plans of the combined group of forces.
A few months before June 1944 and the invasion of Normandy that began that month, Patton begins to spread rumors about the non-existent First U.S. Army Group (abbreviated as “FUSAG”), speaking in his conversations as commander by this group. According to him, this group of armies was supposed to invade France, forcing the crossing of the Pas-de-Calais Strait. These conversations were part of a massive disinformation operation codenamed Operation Fortitude. The result of the operation was the irrational use of forces and resources by the German command, which gave rise to big problems with repelling the Allied strike in Normandy on D-Day.
After the invasion of Normandy began, Patton took a place in the command of the 3rd American Army, which, from a geographical point of view, occupied an extreme right (western) position relative to the disposition of Allied forces in the theater of operations in the West.
Commencing action on 1 August 1944, he led this army during the later parts of Operation Cobra, which effectively turned the protracted, brutal airborne and infantry fighting in the Normandy forests and fields into an Allied blitzkrieg in France. The 3rd Army constantly attacked in directions to the west (Brittany), south, east - closer to the Seine and north, helping to block the Germans' options for retreat and avoiding falling into the Falaise pocket, between Falaise and Orne.
Patton used their own blitzkrieg tactics against the Germans, covering a distance of six hundred miles, from Avranches to Argentan, in two weeks. General Patton's forces were part of the combined Allied forces that liberated France, reaching Paris. The city itself was liberated by the French 2nd Armored Division, which was under the command of General Leclerc, whose soldiers fought in the city itself, and the US 4th Infantry Division. Units of the 2nd Panzer Division had just been transferred from the 3rd Army and many soldiers were still convinced that they were part of the 3rd Army. Such rapid progress, as illustrated by this fact, provides an understanding of the high mobility and aggressiveness of Patton's style of commanding troops. Also, this success, of course, was facilitated by the important fact that Patton received information marked “Ultra” - this term generically referred to all secret information known to the British, obtained by deciphering the ciphers of the German Enigma cipher machine.
General Patton's offensive, despite all the successes, fizzled out on August 31, 1944, when the 3rd Army stood at the Moselle River, near Metz, France. Berragan, in his work on military tactics, argues that Patton's ambitions and his refusal to acknowledge the fact that he was only in the second wave of attacking forces played a negative role.
Other historians suggest that the forces of the advancing army were occupied by General Lee, who decided to move his communications zone to a more comfortable Paris. As a result, about 30 motor transport companies were busy moving, although they could have been used to support and develop the offensive in order to avoid stretching the troops. Patton assumed that theater command would conserve fuel to support the success of the campaign. However, due to various reasons, fuel flows were given to Montgomery, technical resources were occupied in moving the communication zone, Patton refused to advance slowly and the 3rd Army was “bogged down” on the Alsace-Lorraine line, not turning to defense only because of the weakness of the German troops , not ready to launch a counterattack.
Patton's experience suggested that the main advantage of the Allied forces was mobility. This was achieved due to the huge number of US trucks, sufficient reliability of tanks, good radio communications and other little things, which together made it possible for the army to move and act in an extremely short time. Slow attacks led to heavy casualties among personnel and losses in equipment; They also gave the Germans the opportunity to prepare numerous defensive positions, and then, piece by piece, withdraw troops from the attack zone, causing great damage to the allied forces. Patton refused to act in this way.
The time required to supply reinforcements for the Allied forces was just enough for the German troops to further strengthen the fortress of Metz and fully prepare for subsequent hostilities. In October - November, the 3rd Army was practically bogged down in a positional war, the situation became almost hopeless. Heavy losses accompanied every step on both sides. Only on November 23 did Metz finally surrender to the Americans.
At the end of 1944, the German army began desperate attempts to organize a line of defense around Belgium, Luxembourg and northeastern France. The Ardennes Offensive began, officially led by German Field Marshal Gerdt von Rundstedt. By December 16, 1944, the German army had grouped 29 divisions (approximately 250,000 men) at a weak point in the Allied front line and made a deep breakthrough to the Meuse River. One of the coldest winters for warm Europe has arrived. Snowfall restricted all movements of tank troops on both sides.
Needing just one day of favorable weather, Patton orders the 3rd US Army chaplain, James O'Neill, to pray to God to send such weather. Soon after the prayer began, the clouds cleared. Patton awarded O'Neill the Bronze Star right there at the prayer site. The army began its actions to confront von Rundstedt's troops.
Patton suddenly (in a significant achievement of tactics and supply units) turns his troops, thereby effecting a simultaneous withdrawal of forces along with the bloodless US 101st Airborne Division, captured in the Bastogne cauldron (its temporary commander was then Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe). By February, the Germans were retreating along the entire front and Patton moved to another part of the front - the Saar Basin in Germany. The transfer of the 3rd Army ended with the joining of forces on the Rhine in Oppenheim on March 22, 1945.
Patton was planning to liberate Prague from German troops when the American army's advance was stopped. His troops liberated Pilsen (6 May 1945) and the bulk of western Bohemia.
After the end of the war, he was the main supporter and lobbyist for the use of armored vehicles in further military operations.
On December 9, 1945, the day before his scheduled return to California (USA), Patton was involved in a car accident. He and his chief of staff, Major General Hobard Gay, were traveling to hunt pheasants in the grounds located on the outskirts of Mannheim. In the Cadillac Model 75, driven by Horace Woodring (1926 - 2003), General Patton was in the right rear seat and General Gay was in the left. At 11:45 local time, near Neckarsstadt, at a railroad crossing, a 2.5-ton GMC truck (driver Robert L. Thompson) lost control and drove into the oncoming lane. The Cadillac collided with a truck at low speed. General Patton, who at that moment was discussing the picture he saw at the crossing, was thrown forward and received a serious wound, hitting his head on one of the glass parts of the interior in the back seat of the Cadillac. Gay, Woodring and Thompson suffered only minor injuries. Paralyzed, Patton died of an embolism on December 21, 1945, in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, with his wife present.
Patton is buried at the Luxembourg American Memorial Cemetery in Luxembourg City, along with other fallen soldiers of the 3rd US Army. His remains were reburied from another cemetery to a resting place located in the very center of the graves of his soldiers. The cenotaph is located in a cemetery in San Gabriel, California, next to the church where Patton was baptized. In the narthex of the sanctuary there are objects reminiscent of Patton, including a photograph of him on a tank. There is a statue of the general in the church courtyard.
Patton's car was restored and used by various departments. Currently, the car, as well as many other items from the commander’s life, can be seen in the General George Patton Museum in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Military ranks: 2nd lieutenant (RA - 06/12/1906), 1st lieutenant (RA - 08/28/1912), captain (RA - 07/07/1916), major (RA - 07/01/1920), lieutenant colonel (RA - 012/13/1929) , colonel (RA - 08/01/1935), brigadier general (RA - 11/01/1938), major general (AUS - 10/02/1940, RA - 08/05/1941).
