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Subject: Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912
Competed in the first Olympic modern pentathlon ever held and finished fifth. His weakest event was the pistol.
Source: Official Report of the Olympic Games of Stockholm, 1912
DocumentedFrom Patton's Rescript, the channel behind “A Corporal Told Patton His Map Was Wrong in Front of the Whole Staff,” watched more than 760,000 times.
On the channel we dramatize. We rebuild scenes and dialogue so a moment from 1944 plays like it happened last night. Done right, that's how a story should be told, and it leaves every viewer with a fair question: which parts are on record?
This book answers that question for fifty things about Patton himself. Each fact carries its source. Where historians disagree, you'll see who says what, and you can make up your own mind.
Typed up the way they appear in the book, source included.
The U.S. Army's last cavalry sword, the Model 1913, is still called the Patton saber. He designed it as a 27-year-old lieutenant and wrote the Army's 1914 saber manual to go with it.
Sources: War Department, Saber Exercise 1914; Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War
Hunting Pancho Villa's men in May 1916, he took a small party in three Dodge touring cars to a ranch at San Miguelito. In the gunfight he killed Julio Cárdenas, one of Villa's senior officers. It's often called the U.S. Army's first motorized attack.
Source: Martin Blumenson, The Patton Papers, Vol. I
He failed mathematics in his first year at West Point and had to repeat it. He graduated in 1909, 46th in a class of 103.
Sources: Martin Blumenson, The Patton Papers, Vol. I; Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War
The book closes with ten popular claims rated against the record. Here are three of them.
“Patton slapped two soldiers in Sicily.”
DocumentedIt happened twice, on August 3 and August 10, 1943, in two different evacuation hospitals. Eisenhower reprimanded him in writing and made him apologize. The public found out that November.
Sources: Eisenhower to Patton, August 17, 1943; Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War
“Patton was dyslexic.”
UnprovenHe struggled to read and spell as a boy, and his letters stayed full of misspellings all his life. Biographers such as Carlo D'Este argue it was dyslexia. Nobody diagnosed him, so it remains a strong theory.
Source: Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War
“Patton was murdered.”
No evidenceHis staff car collided with an Army truck near Mannheim on December 9, 1945. He died twelve days later in a hospital in Heidelberg. The murder theories rest on statements that surfaced decades later, and no document has ever backed them up.
Sources: Carlo D'Este, Patton: A Genius for War; Martin Blumenson, The Patton Papers, Vol. II
1885 to 1909. A family of soldiers, a year at VMI and the West Point year he had to repeat.
1909 to 1916. Stockholm, the saber that carries his name and a ranch in Chihuahua.
1917 to 1941. The first American tank school, a wound in the Meuse-Argonne and twenty years of peacetime soldiering.
1942 to 1945. North Africa, Sicily, a phantom army before D-Day and the Third Army's run across Europe.
1945. Bavaria, a car crash outside Mannheim and a grave among his men in Luxembourg.
Ten famous claims about Patton, each rated against the record.
Every fact has a source note, and the book ends with a full bibliography.
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