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Here's a scene you won't often see.
George Patton gets Outbooted. He is usually seen wearing the tallest boots.
Gen. Bradley on the right appears to be wearing jump boots.
Gen. Defers on the left and Gen. Patton appear to be wearing tanker boots.
Gen. Patch is wearing some kind of tall riding - cavalry boots.
Gen. Patch's gun belt sure looks funny.
George Patton has that Hollywood ready for prime time look that he was famous for.
 

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THE PILGRIM said:
Here's a scene you won't often see.
George Patton gets Outbooted. He is usually seen wearing the tallest boots.
Gen. Bradley on the right appears to be wearing jump boots.
Gen. Defers on the left and Gen. Patton appear to be wearing tanker boots.
Gen. Patch is wearing some kind of tall riding - cavalry boots.
Gen. Patch's gun belt sure looks funny.
George Patton has that Hollywood ready for prime time look that he was famous for.
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I wish we had these Generals now--today....
 
My FIL used to brag that he had gone to ROTC summer camp with George Patton, down at Ft. Knox.
It was true! Grandpa, George and a few thousand of their closest friends.
 
Is Gen. Patton wearing FOUR finger rings ?? He WAS a bit on the pompous side, wasn't he ?

My Pop was at one of the places where he had to apologize for slapping the "shell-shocked" soldiers.(Two incidents) This was the last apology; to the 3rd. Infantry Division, of the several trips he made. Pop said at least 3000 GIs were there, and there was some chants for Patton to NOT apologize.

Gen Bradley does appear to be wearing jump boots. Looks like the soles have been built up a 1/2" or so, which was /is, not uncommon among Airborne troopers. I don't see any "jump wings" though.
 
I think that is the only pic I have seen of "Old Blood & Guts" that he actually favors George C. Scott.
 
THE PILGRIM said:
Gen. Patch's gun belt sure looks funny.
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General Patch is wearing his General Officer's pistol belt rig. He is carrying a Colt .32 Pocket Hammerless in the holster. The General is wearing the rig a little higher on the waist than he should, considering that he is wearing one of the shorter "Ike" style of jacket. He ought to be taking his cue from George Patton, who is seen wearing his own GO pistol belt in the appropriate manner.
 
THE PILGRIM said:
Here's a scene you won't often see.
George Patton gets Outbooted. He is usually seen wearing the tallest boots.
Gen. Bradley on the right appears to be wearing jump boots.
Gen. Defers on the left and Gen. Patton appear to be wearing tanker boots.
Gen. Patch is wearing some kind of tall riding - cavalry boots.
Gen. Patch's gun belt sure looks funny.
George Patton has that Hollywood ready for prime time look that he was famous for.
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I believe the General's name is "Devers" not Defers. :)
 
My father was a WWII veteran. He had an intense dislike for Patton. This was mainly due to the slapping incident and his pomposity. He always said Patton would have been right at home in the Wermacht or SS. According to him, he wasn't alone in that opinion. He pointed out that Patton wasn't crawing in the mud getting shot and shelled. He didn't freeze in flooded foxholes or storm the beach on D Day. So, slapping soldiers suffering from battle fatigue was a despicable thing to do for someone who lived in relative comfort with everyone around him kissing his posterior...Then again, Dad wasn't very fond of Generals.
 
Outbooted

"Outbooted"......never heard that term before but it sure is descriptive.

Bill Riley's "Killing Patton" hints at a conspiracy or two (or three or four) surrounding Patton's fatal "accident". It's also a good history of WWII.
 
George Patton wore boots made by Dehner, which is still in business today. Here's a link to Dehner's web site. The boot in the picture (the "42") looks almost exactly like General Patch's boots.
The Dehner Boot Company
Dehners makes great boots, but at a very nice price.
 
Robert T. Frederick - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Serving in the ranks of Colonel, Brigadier General, and Major General in WW2, Robert Frederick was wounded in action 8(!) times, including twice in one day,and earned two DSCs for combat action, designed the V42 combat knife and was friends with guys Fairbairn and Sykes considered hard cases.

Virtually forgotten today, he was the real deal when it came to U.S. Army general officers in WW2.
 
Frizzman said:
My father was a WWII veteran. He had an intense dislike for Patton. This was mainly due to the slapping incident and his pomposity. He always said Patton would have been right at home in the Wermacht or SS. According to him, he wasn't alone in that opinion. He pointed out that Patton wasn't crawing in the mud getting shot and shelled. He didn't freeze in flooded foxholes or storm the beach on D Day. So, slapping soldiers suffering from battle fatigue was a despicable thing to do for someone who lived in relative comfort with everyone around him kissing his posterior...Then again, Dad wasn't very fond of Generals.
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Then again I am pretty sure Gen. Patton wasn't decorated extensively for always being in the rear with the gear either...he may not have crawled in the mud after 30 plus years in the Army but you can best believe he crawled in his share.
 
Having gone through the US Military Officers Schools, every effort is made to weed-out officers like Patton. The military school now teach the officers how to correctly surrender his sword, not how to use it!
 
Patton had shown bravery and skill in WW1. He led from the front in his own tank, was wounded in action, and exposed to fire many times.

How much of his WW2 persona was bluster and how much is fact is long ago obscured. Long time CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney had contact with Patton during the war. He despised the man. My was commanded a platoon of armored engineers in Third Army (I don't know what division). He seemed to have a positive opinion of the man, but that was post George C. Scott.

Patton did not carry handguns just for show. While stories of him firing them at German planes may be apocryphal, he did use them to good effect years earlier in a shoot out with Pancho Vilas men in 1916 and was an Olympic level shooter.

Patton had a son, with the same name, who commanded a division in Vietnam and facing off against Cold War era Russians in Germany. Junior was said to be a lot like his father.

The German Army that fought against the US in WW2, did have a number of generals who took to the front. Major General Count Hyazinth Strachwitz won pretty much the highest awards for bravery the Germans had. He had a habit of taking his personal Tiger tank into battle and was reputed to have (with his crew) a large number of kills. Oddly enough he was just the sort of aristocrat that one would picture wearing a monocle and peering over maps.
 
I knew a man who was in the Infantry in Patton's Third Army. His take was that Patton was a tough cookie and they respected him. One has to wonder how much longer the war in Europe would have lasted had Patton not been there.
 
GatorFarmer said:
Patton had shown bravery and skill in WW1. He led from the front in his own tank, was wounded in action, and exposed to fire many times.

How much of his WW2 persona was bluster and how much is fact is long ago obscured. Long time CBS curmudgeon Andy Rooney had contact with Patton during the war. He despised the man. My was commanded a platoon of armored engineers in Third Army (I don't know what division). He seemed to have a positive opinion of the man, but that was post George C. Scott.

Patton did not carry handguns just for show. While stories of him firing them at German planes may be apocryphal, he did use them to good effect years earlier in a shoot out with Pancho Vilas men in 1916 and was an Olympic level shooter.

Patton had a son, with the same name, who commanded a division in Vietnam and facing off against Cold War era Russians in Germany. Junior was said to be a lot like his father.

The German Army that fought against the US in WW2, did have a number of generals who took to the front. Major General Count Hyazinth Strachwitz won pretty much the highest awards for bravery the Germans had. He had a habit of taking his personal Tiger tank into battle and was reputed to have (with his crew) a large number of kills. Oddly enough he was just the sort of aristocrat that one would picture wearing a monocle and peering over maps.
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Another frontline General comes to mind is: Gottlob Berger. He could just merely be in an area being overwhelmed and his presence would turn the situation into somehting positive.A saying most of his officers had: "Thank GOD--Berger is here." Another is Heinrici.
 
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