Patton's Revolver

[crazyphil]

I like the McGivern gold bead up front too. Here is my S&W 19-4
showing the McGivern.

 

[jdlii]

Interesting thread and like many who have contributed, I too have had the opportunity to visit the Armor Museum at Ft. Knox and viewed the subject handguns.

Although the front sight (insert) that I use on my 629 DX is not a McGivern, it does have the "gold" bead. I find that it is this insert provides a great sight picture and reflects all available light to allow it to provide an excellent sight picture in early morning and late evening hours. I have taken one buck with this revolver and it is a regular companion during deer season.

 

[remshooter]

Pattons Colt .45 SAA in that pic ,was down in the Patton museom at Fort Knox ,back in 1996 ,when i was there ,not sure if it there now ,it had 2 notches cut into the ivory grips ,,supposedly from when he was in Mexico in 1916 ,

 

[MCorps0311]

Here's the first of many links from my old pal Google:

The Known and Lesser Known Carry Guns of George S. Patton - Guns.com

Nice link thanks for sharing it.

 

[DWalt]

"History! It calls out to us! I wonder why none of this shows up in public school curricula."

For those interested in Pershing's 1916 Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa (birth name: Doroteo Arango) there is a truly excellent and detailed book on the topic entitled The Great Pursuit(1970) by Herbert Molloy Mason. Jr.

The influence on the U. S. decision to enter into WWI as a combatant as a result of the 1917 Zimmerman Letter proposing German assistance to Mexico in regaining "by conquest" Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona should not be underestimated.

 

[Cyrano]

On the aircraft used during this conflict; General Pershing had the First Aero Squadron, commanded by a Major Benjamin Foulois, I think they flew Jennies. The aircraft were used for liaison and reconaissance; I don't think they had a bombing capability.

I had a friend, namd Caldwell, His father was an engineer retired from Pratt & Whitney. He was awarded a Collier Trophy in the 1920s for inventing the variable pitch propellor. He told me he was sent to Texas to find out why the propellors were coming apart in flight. He found it was the hot, dry climate, and Pratt & Whitney developed a new adhesive holding the laminations of the propellor together.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Here's a good shot of GP and revolver.

 

[dirty & hairy]

Thank you all for contributing, I've learned a lot...

 

[THE PILGRIM]

My FIL went to ROTC summer camp down at Ft. Knox
And GP was There.
So my FIL always said that he had been trained by George Patton.
It was just him, GP and a few thousand of their closest friends.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

This is as close as I could come to Patton's guns. Not ivory, but sambar stag. I think the General would aprove.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

The version I read said Patton referred to his S&W 357 as his "killling gun", though there's no evidence he ever fired it in action, unlike the Colt.
My 7th Grade French teacher 1961-1962 said he had an uncle in the Villa Expedition.

 

[DWalt]

The Villa Punitive Expedition was one of the more significant military actions in modern history, and is considered by many historians as to have been a dress rehearsal for US combat participation during WWI. It was the first American military action in which automatic weapons, aircraft, and motorized vehicles played a major role, and the first armed US military response to a surprise invasion of the homeland. Too bad it wasn't more successful.

 

[soFlaNative]

Here's a good shot of GP and revolver.

I've seen sharks smile like that pic of both Patton and Montgomery.

 

[Absalom]

So far, nobody seems to have mentioned Patton's "dress gun". As I'm sure everybody is aware, general officers were issued a Colt 1908 Pocket Hammerless in.380. Patton had replacement stocks on his with ivory inlays of the number of his general's stars.

 

[M29since14]

I've seen sharks smile like that pic of both Patton and Montgomery.

And General Bradley!

It's a great picture. The proverbial "moment in time" and "worth a thousand words" - both in one image.

 

[Absalom]

.....
For those interested in Pershing's 1916 Punitive Expedition against Pancho Villa (birth name: Doroteo Arango) there is a truly excellent and detailed book on the topic entitled The Great Pursuit(1970) by Herbert Molloy Mason. Jr.
.....

In addition, another excellent book I can recommend for the bigger picture is "Intervention! The United States and the Mexican Revolution 1913 - 1917" by John S.D. Eisenhower.

Before I read this book (it's 1990s vintage), I never really understood the whole complicated mess that was the revolutionary period in Mexico while the world was "distracted" by the Balkans and WW I.

Eisenhower was Ike's son, and a career Army officer and military historian. He really puts the whole story in a context that makes sense from a US military and political perspective.

 

[Muley Gil]

"...he had to have had them specially fitted to the flanges of the adaptor."

The first S&W grip adapter had side plates that covered both sides of the grip frame. Using standard Magna grips with the grip adapter left a gap behind the horns of the grips. Magnas had to be thinned to be fitted over the adapter.