Candid shot of Major General George S. Patton, Jr., sitting on a fence and smoking a pipe, as he watches 3rd Army maneuvers in Louisiana, September 8, 1941. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
August 1944: General George S Patton (1885 - 1945), Head of the 3rd Army, talks to Allied war correspondents in Normandy. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)
American military commander General George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), Commander of the US 3rd Army, pilots a motor launch on Lake Attersee, near Salzburg, Austria, May 19, 1945. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
American General George S Patton Jr (center, 1885 - 1945) 'Old Blood & Guts' Commander of US 3rd Army, with his wife Beatrice, and son George Patton IV (1923 - 2004), a West Point Cadet, at a family reunion in Bedford, Massachusetts, circa 1945. (Photo by James Totten/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
President Harry S Truman (right) stands with General George S Patton (center) and General Dwight D Eisenhower (left) during a special flag-raising ceremony, Berlin, Germany, July 28, 1945. The President was in Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)
