General George S. Patton, one of the most revered, skilled and yet controversial figures in American military lore, reached the coastal city of Messina and secured the liberation of Sicily on this day ...

December 1941 to February 1942 was a Major problem for the East Coast. 120 American merchant ships were sunk by German U-boats. Many were sunk within sight of our coastal shores with burnt bodies and ...

Aboard a transport, one of a thousand ships bearing the U.S. Seventh Army to Sicily, a colonel climbed atop a gun mount and read out an Order of the Day from Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr.: We ...

The U.S. was shocked by the first scandal in the U.S. Army High Command in World War II. It centered on a hero of Casablanca, El Guettar and Sicily: gaudy, profane Lieut. General George Smith Patton ...

Peter Tonguette’s commendable essay on “Patton,” the classic 1970 war film by Franklin J. Schaffner, was most appropriate for Memorial Day weekend (“An Epic of Potent Patriotism,” Masterpiece, May 24) ...

[War Department, Washington, D.C.] Oct. 20, 1942 For reasons of official secrecy, this will not be mailed for some time. Probably by the time you get it you will have read in the papers where I am and ...

Joseph L. Galloway is the coauthor of "We Were Soldiers Once and Young" and "Triumph Without Victory: A History of the Persian Gulf War." Gen. George S. Patton Jr. spent only 391 days in combat during ...