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|name=George Smith Patton IV |birth_date= {{birth date|1923|12|24}} |death_date= {{death date and age|2004|06|27|1923|12|24}} |birth_place=Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |death_place=South Hamilton, Massachusetts, U.S. |placeofburial=Arlington National Cemetery |placeofburial_label= |image=George Patton IV DF-ST-84-01686.JPEG |caption=Patton in 1977 |nickname= |allegiance=United States of America |branch={{army|United States}} |serviceyears=1946–1980 (USMA: 1942–1946) |rank= Major General |unit= |commands=A/140/40th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion/81st Armored/1st Armored Division, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division |Education= West Point, Class of 1946 |battles= Korean War Vietnam War
|awards=Distinguished Service Cross (2) Silver Star (2) Legion of Merit (3) Distinguished Flying Cross Bronze Star (2) with "V" Device Meritorious Service Medal Purple Heart Air Medal (27) |laterwork=Farmer Co-author, The Fighting Pattons |relations=George S. Patton, father, Beatrice Ayer Patton, mother, Frederick Ayer, grandfather }} George Smith Patton IV (December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004) was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George S. Patton, Jr. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Military biographyPatton was educated at The Hill School. A 1946 graduate of West Point,[1] Patton was initially trained as an infantry officer. His first assignment was to Regensburg, West Germany, where he participated in the 1948 Berlin Airlift. The troops under his command were used to load supplies onto Air Force transport aircraft bound for Berlin. In 1952, he joined C Company, 63rd Tank Battalion, 1st Infantry Division, as a platoon leader. A year after he returned from Germany, he married Joanne Holbrook. Korean WarPatton served in the Korean War from February 1953, commanding "A" Company of the 140th Tank Battalion, 40th Infantry Division.[2] He received his first Silver Star and the Purple Heart in Korea. Returning to the United States in 1954, Patton, now a captain, was initially assigned to West Point, but was quickly picked up as part of an exchange program and was sent to teach at the United States Naval Academy.[3] Vietnam WarPatton served a total of three tours of duty in South Vietnam, the first from April 1962 to April 1963 at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, during which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He then took command of the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before his second tour in 1967, this one lasting only three months.[4] During Patton's final and most intense tour, lasting from January 1968 to January 1969, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions on the battlefield.[5] During this final tour, he was initially assigned as Chief of Operations and Plans at Headquarters, United States Army Vietnam. However, after his promotion to colonel in April 1968, he was given command of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. During his three tours in Vietnam, Patton, who frequently used helicopters as a mobile command post, was shot down three times{{Citation needed|date=April 2008}} and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Brigadier generalAfter Vietnam, he was promoted to brigadier general in June 1970 before becoming the commanding officer of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, in 1975, as a Major General. This was a unit his father had commanded just before the U.S. had entered World War II, making this the first time in U.S. Army history that a father and a son had both commanded the same division. The Abrams were the second to accomplish this feat. Brigadier General Patton was Deputy Post Commander at Fort Knox, Kentucky during 1972. Patton was known by the troops as a "GI General," not to be confused with General Bradley, often appearing in A-2-3 Dining Hall during meal times. Often the general would be behind the serving line.{{Citation needed|date=April 2010}} Major generalMajor General Patton was assigned to the VII Corps in Germany, as the Deputy Commander. He was stationed near Stuttgart, where Manfred Rommel, son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, was a government officer who later became the city's mayor and the two met for the first time.[6] The sons of the two former adversaries entered a much publicized friendship, which continued until the general's death in 2004. The men shared the same birthday, December 24. Awards and decorationsGeneral Patton's military awards include:
Post-military work and deathIn the years after his 1980 retirement, Patton turned an estate owned by his father located north of Boston into the Green Meadows Farm,[7] where he named the fields after Vietnam soldiers who died under his command.[5] During the first years after his retirement from the Army, Patton was interviewed by journalist Kim Willenson as part of his work on his book The Bad War: An Oral History of the Vietnam War, which was published in June 1987. In the 1990s, Patton worked alongside author Brian Sobel to write The Fighting Pattons, a book which served as an official family biography of his father as well as a comparison between the military of his father's generation and that of his son, a time which covered five conflicts and almost 70 years of combined service. The Fighting Pattons was published in 1997. He died from a form of Parkinson's disease[8] at the age of 80 in 2004. His youngest son Benjamin Patton has written a family biography entitled Growing Up Patton: Reflections on Heroes, History, and Family Wisdom, which reflected on his grandfather and father's careers.[9][10] Family namePatton was the fourth in his line to be named George Smith Patton. His great-grandfather, the first George Smith Patton, was a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in 1864, at the Battle of Opequon. Patton's grandfather, born George William Patton in 1856, changed his name to George Smith Patton in 1868, in honor of his father. He was the only one of the four George Pattons not to serve in the military (although he, like the other three, attended the Virginia Military Institute). Patton's father was the renowned George Smith Patton, Jr., the World War II general most famous for his command of the Third U.S. Army in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945. Though given the name Junior, Patton's father was actually the third George Smith Patton. For this reason, Patton was christened George Smith Patton IV. Following his father's death in 1945, Patton changed his legal name to George Smith Patton, dropping the Roman numerals. His eldest son, technically the fifth George S. Patton, is also known as George Smith Patton, Jr. WW II General Patton's young grandson, who still is living, has given interviews on the History Channel and the Military Channel, recalling his family heritage. Another son, Robert H. Patton, has written a history of the Patton family: The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family (Crown, 1994).[11][12] Another son, filmmaker Benjamin W. Patton, recorded tapes of his father's memories of his own and his grandfather's experiences, and those tapes formed the basis of the book The Fighting Pattons by Brian M. Sobel.[13][14] References1. ^{{IMDb name|id=0666530|name=George S. Patton IV|section=bio}} 2. ^{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,889697-2,00.html | work=Time | title=Letters, Jun. 29, 1953 | date=June 29, 1953 | accessdate=May 3, 2010}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Google books|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4ootbf49WsC&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=george+patton+exchange+annapolis| first1=Brian | last1=Sobel | isbn=978-0-275-95714-8 | year=1997 | publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group}} 4. ^Moïse's Bibliography: U.S. Military Men 5. ^1 George Smith Patton, Major General, United States Army 6. ^{{cite book|last=Sobel|first=Brian M.|title=The Fighting Pattons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4ootbf49WsC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=94|year=1997|isbn=978-0-275-95714-8}} 7. ^http://www.bostoncentral.com/activities/orchards/p1575.php Green Meadows Farm 8. ^George S. Patton 9. ^{{cite news|title=Growing Up Patton|url=http://nation.time.com/2012/03/26/growing-up-patton/|publisher=Time|date=26 March 2012}} 10. ^{{cite news|title=For General Patton's Family, Recovered Ground|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Presence-of-Mind-Recovered-Ground.html|publisher=Smithsonian|date=June 2009}} 11. ^{{cite news|last1=Rierden|first1=Andi|title=The Patton Family: An Intimate Portrait|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/nyregion/the-patton-family-an-intimate-portrait.html?pagewanted=all|accessdate=30 June 2016|work=The New York Times|date=12 June 1994}} 12. ^{{cite book|last1=Patton|first1=Robert|title=The Pattons: A Personal History of an American Family|date=1 March 1994|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|isbn=0517590689|pages=320|edition=1st|url=https://www.amazon.com/Pattons-Personal-History-American-Family/dp/0517590689/|accessdate=30 June 2016}} 13. ^{{cite web|last1=Patton|first1=Benjamin|title=For General Patton's Family, Recovered Ground|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-general-pattons-family-recovered-ground-133558376/?all|website=Smithsonian.com|publisher=Smithsonian Institution|accessdate=30 June 2016}} 14. ^{{cite book|last1=Sobel|first1=Brian|title=The Fighting Pattons|date=25 February 1997|publisher=Praeger; Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=0275957144|pages=288|edition=1st|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Pattons-Brian-M-Sobel/dp/0275957144/|accessdate=30 June 2016}} External links{{wikiquote}}
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