After the breakout from Normandy in 1944, General George S. Patton’s Third Army launched one of the fastest advances of the war, sweeping across France and collapsing German defensive lines in rapid ...
On August 1, 1944, General George S. Patton unleashed the U.S. Third Army in a rapid drive into Brittany. The objective was speed—encircle German forces and seize vital Atlantic ports before they ...