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George Smith Patton III (11 November 1885 – 21 December 1945) 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.
Army Group G was commanded by General der Panzertruppe Hermann Balck.. Balck, who had since August been in charge of the Fourth Panzer Army on the Eastern Front took command on 21 September replacing Johannes Blaskowitz who had lost a substantial amount of his forces in the retreat following the Allied invasion of the south of France.
The Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943, was conducted in conjunction with the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Patton's rival. Patton commanded the Seventh Army until early 1944. View of Lieutenant General Patton's Seventh Army staff aboard SS Monrovia, en route to Sicily, June/July 1943.
The Lorraine campaign was the operations of the U.S.Third Army in Lorraine during World War II from September 1 through December 18, 1944. Official U.S. Army campaign names for this period and location are Northern France and Rhineland.
Patton, George S. (1947), War as I Knew It, Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Co., ISBN 978-1-4193-2492-5 Robert H. Scales, "Certain Victory: The US Army in the Gulf War" (PDF) . Retrieved 15 February 2021 . , U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Press Reprint
During the first week of the Normandy landings and the Battle of Normandy, Bradley's First US Army formed the right wing of the Allied lines. They were joined during July by the Third US Army, under the command of General George S. Patton, to form the Twelfth Army Group. Twelfth Army Group became operational in France on 1 August 1944.
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The XX Corps of the United States Army fought from northern France to Austria in World War II.Constituted on 10 October 1943 by re-designating the IV Armored Corps of the Army Ground Forces, a training organization which had been activated at Camp Young, California on 5 September 1942, XX Corps became operational in France as part of Lieutenant General George S. Patton's U.S.