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re: GEORGE C. SCOTT - Discusses George S. Patton, 1997
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:28 pm to EphesianArmor
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:28 pm to EphesianArmor
Have any of you ever heard any speeches George Patton gave? He sounded more like Wally Cox in real life than how George C. Scott portrayed him in the movie.
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Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:36 pm to EphesianArmor
I watched that film so many times growing up I could recite the opening speech and most of the movie.
If you really want an incite I to the man read the 3 volume set The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson. It has tons of diary entries from the diary he kept. He kept one from about age 12 until his death.
If you really want an incite I to the man read the 3 volume set The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson. It has tons of diary entries from the diary he kept. He kept one from about age 12 until his death.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:48 pm to DesScorp
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There's a great scene in The Last Days of Patton where he dresses down SS POW's for looking slovenly, and orders them to "spit and polish again" with uniforms to regain their pride so they can be useful in rebuilding Germany. Ike famously, or infamously, dressed him down for this.
Germany might be a different place today if men like Patton oversaw its rebuilding instead of the crew we put in place.
Great re-telling of that particular scene and how much more Patton transcended "soldier" or"warrior". He was a manager and motivator on men -- even those demoralized SS; he saw human potential as something not to waste out of spite, politics or laziness.
The crew we (or "they") put in place hated Germans and for some reason LOVED Stalin and Communism. If were up to them all of Germany would have looked like Dresden.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:50 pm to RohanGonzales
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Major General Terry Allen
What a man, told Patton to basically F off and Patton still defended him against Bradley.
Terry was a badass.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:51 pm to gumbo2176
Yeah, to hear George Patton's squeaky real voice (after watching 'Patton' with GCS's authoritative growl ) was shocking at first.
It was said Patton used salty language and swore to "compensate" for it -- which made sense, psychologically.
It was said Patton used salty language and swore to "compensate" for it -- which made sense, psychologically.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:55 pm to TD422
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My favorite line from the film: "Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"
Except it is a historical error.
Rommel wrote one book on warfare: "Infantry Attacks" (published 1937). He was writing "Tank Attacks" but never finished it before he committed suicide. There is a book supposedly by Rommel with the name "The Tank in Attack" when Patton is awoken in the movie, but it was a prop as the book was never published (though parts of it were in the Rommel Papers).
More likely than not, if Patton would have read any book by a German military officer on tank warfare, it would have been "Achtung-Panzer!" by Heinz Guderian which was published in 1937 and influential in tank warfare.
But all of that aside, Patton is a wonderful movie.
One of my favorite scenes is when he talks about the Roman conquerer receiving his accolades and parades: "A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
Posted on 2/16/26 at 7:55 pm to crash1211
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I watched that film so many times growing up I could recite the opening speech and most of the movie.
Heh, me too. Even got to the point where I perfected George C. Scott's opening montage in his voice. It was one of my first movie DVDs.
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If you really want an incite I to the man read the 3 volume set The Patton Papers by Martin Blumenson. It has tons of diary entries from the diary he kept. He kept one from about age 12 until his death.
Something I;ll have to look into.
I remember reading some of his more colorful opinions from his post war governorship observations.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 8:35 pm to EphesianArmor
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 8:56 pm to BoKnowsAUOne
Several yrs ago I talked to an older gent in the gym & he said he was the backup driver for Patton in the last year of the war. Great conversation....I mostly listened.....but one thing he told me has stayed with me, a WWII history buff, all these yrs. He was insistent, nonchalantly, that Patton was deliberately killed in a car wreck & that everyone knew about it. The "accident" was at an intersection by another car that no one ever found. There never was an official investigation & the Pentagon refused to have his body taken back home. He was subsequently buried in Europe....France I think. He also said that he landed at Omaha Beach on D Day, the first wave & that he got up & walked out of the theater during the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan He loved the General.
Posted on 2/16/26 at 9:37 pm to tigerinexile
My grandfather who encountered him on several occasions said he had a high squeaky voice. 
Posted on 2/16/26 at 9:52 pm to EphesianArmor
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This post was edited on 2/16/26 at 10:33 pm
Posted on 2/16/26 at 9:53 pm to EphesianArmor
Here’s a link to the book the film was based on. Patton:Ordeal and Triumph
Posted on 2/16/26 at 10:03 pm to TygerLyfe
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My father's best friend was a staff officer for Patton in the Third Army in Europe, and interacted with him daily.
My great-grandfather graduated West Point with Patton, they were cousins, and regularly communicated throughout their careers. I have one of those letters, Patton's response about a particular staff officer recommendation that my great-grandfather had made (who was also CG of the CRTC at Ft. Riley while Joe Louis was there). Basically stated that he would accept this officer only on the say-so of my great-grandfather's recommendation as Patton held his judgment of character in high regard.
ETA: Hope this is legible as I only have access to the high resolution scan I made as a screenshot at the moment.
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