- Born
- November 11, 1885
- Died
- December 21, 1945 (aged 60)
- Known as
- autobiographer, swimmer, military personnel, army officer
George Smith Patton Jr. was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
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