1. Virginia
   Georgia
2. New York
   California

George Patton shares the name of his father, who was a prominent figure in California. The elder Patton was an attorney before he turned to politics, where he was elected as the first mayor of San Marino.

1. Operation Neptune
   Operation Bodyguard
2. Operation Sledgehammer
   Operation Torch

General Patton was given control of the Western Task Force when the invasion of North Africa was planned under Operation Torch. His force, which consisted of 35,000 troops, landed near Casablanca, Morocco, on November 8, 1942. Two days later, they captured Casablanca.

1. Norwich University
   Virginia Military Institute
2. Harvard University
   Washington and Lee University

Throughout his youth, George Patton struggled with reading, which followed him to college at the Virginia Military Institute. He only attended the college for a year before he was selected to attend West Point.

1. Life
   Time
2. The New Yorker
   Harper's Bazaar

An issue of Life magazine released on July 7, 1941 shows Patton riding atop his signature tank. The issue was released a few months after Patton had been promoted to major general, a rank he held for the next two years.

1. Rowing
   Tennis
2. Pentathlon
   Cycling

The 1912 Summer Olympics was the first time that the pentathlon was added as an event. Patton competed well and ended up placing fifth overall behind four Swedish competitors.

1. Second lieutenant
   Lieutenant
2. Captain
   Major

In 1909, Patton graduated in the top 50 of his class at West Point, which earned him a commission as a second lieutenant. As part of the commission, he joined the United States Cavalry, where he shaped his early military career.

1. Germany
   Britain
2. France
   Spain

With the knowledge he gained in France, Patton designed his own saber called the Cavalry Sword Model 1913. This saber, sometimes called the Patton Saber, was the last saber used by the U.S. Cavalry.

1. Chestnut
   Ivory
2. Walnut
   Pearl

George Patton could be seen regularly carrying around pistols with ivory handles. A .45 Long Colt Single Action revolver was the most common pistol he carried, but he also favored a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson revolver if the situation ever called for it.

1. Pancho Villa
   Emiliano Zapata
2. Francisco I. Madero
   Porfirio Diaz

Pancho Villa rose to fame as part of Francisco Madero's uprising in opposition of Mexican President Porfirio Diaz. He would later form his own military group to fight Victoriano Huerta, at which time he combated U.S. forces. Eventually, internal division forced him to retire.

1. Machine guns
   Hand grenades
2. Radios
   Motorized vehicles

When George Patton led the expedition into Mexico, his forces used the 1915 Dodge Model 30. The car was known for having more horsepower than its competitors at the time and helped Dodge establish itself as a competitor in the car industry.

1. John Pershing
   Edwin Babbitt
2. William Kenly
   William Campbell Langfitt

John Pershing was a significant U.S. general who led the American Expeditionary Forces into WWI. After his achievements in the war, Pershing was named General of the Armies, the only American general to ever receive the rank during his lifetime.

1. Planes
   Machine gun
2. Tanks
   Artillery

In 1917, Patton traveled to Paris, where he was trained by the French army in tank warfare. He went on to train soldiers to use the tanks in support of infantry before becoming the commander of the 1st Tank Corps.

1. The shoulder
   The leg
2. The foot
   The hip

Earning him recognition among his soldiers and peers, Patton continued to command his troops from a shell hole while he was waiting to be evacuated after being shot in the leg. With the injury, his role in WWI came to an end, since he didn't return to action.

1. Camp Lee
   Camp Jackson
2. Camp Lewis
   Camp Meade

Camp Meade was named after Major General George G. Meade, who had served in both the Mexican-American War and the Civil War. The camp was built during WWI as a training ground for the 79th Division before becoming a demobilization center after the war.

1. Douglas MacArthur
   Dwight D. Eisenhower
2. Omar Bradley
   Gerald Ford

Dwight D. Eisenhower and George Patton bonded over their enthusiasm for the future of tank warfare. When they met in 1919, Patton had already been influenced by his time working with tanks in Europe while Eisenhower ran a tank training center in the United States.

1. Burned them
   Hung them
2. Strapped them to his car
   Sent them to the Mexican president

Patton and his troops never found Pancho Villa during their pursuit into Mexico, but they found and killed Julio Cardenas, who was one of Villa's captains, and two of his soldiers. Feeling accomplished, Patton carried the men's bodies back on top of his vehicles like trophy animals.

1. Purple Heart
   Medal of Honor
2. Distinguished Service Cross
   Silver Star

The Purple Heart was created as a successor to the Badge of Military Merit, the oldest military merit in American history. Including Patton, over 300,000 soldiers from WWI received the medal due to injuries they received.

1. Painting
   Writing short stories
2. Writing novels
   Writing poetry

As a lifetime member of the military, Patton's poetry often reflected his time at war. Evidence of how he struggled to return to civilian life, Patton occasionally wrote about his desire for a war, where he felt the most comfortable.

1. 1929
   1932
2. 1935
   1940

The Great Depression weighed heavily on the United States in 1932, and former soldiers felt the effects of the economic woes. Demanding early pensions, they marched on Washington D.C., but it was one of their own, George Patton, who stood against them, demanding that they return home.

1. Washington D.C.
   California
2. Texas
   Hawaii

Still struggling to adjust to peacetime in America, George Patton viewed Hawaii as a chance to utilize the best of his talents by preparing soldiers for future warfare. He eventually was assigned as a G-3, an operations officer, where he spoke out against commanding officers, earning him a bad reputation.

1. He fell off a house.
   A car hit him.
2. A horse kicked him.
   He fell while hiking.

George Patton was on leave in 1937 when he decided to go horseback riding with his wife, Beatrice. During this trip, Beatrice's horse kicked him in the leg when he was riding too close, knocking Patton to the ground where he passed out.

1. 300
   500
2. 1,000
   2,000

The trip from Columbus, Georgia, to Panama City, Florida and back was a 400-mile stretch that Patton personally led. Part of Patton's reasoning for undertaking the venture was that he wanted to gain positive publicity for the Army and its use of tanks in warfare.

1. Blood and Guts
   Infamy
2. Four Freedoms
   Arsenal of Democracy

George Patton, after having been promoted to major general, started giving his "Blood and Guts" speeches at Fort Benning in 1941 as a way of inspiring his soldiers. To accomplish this, Patton went as far as building an amphitheater that would hold his entire devision.

1. A fire broke out.
   They were drowning.
2. Horse's almost trampled them.
   A car crashed.

While on a trip to Salem, Massachusetts, several children fell off a yacht and into the water. Patton, always looking for an opportunity to show his heroics, dived in and saved the children, earning the Silver Lifesaving Medal for the act.

1. U.S. I Corps
   U.S. II Corps
2. U.S. III Corps
   U.S. IV Corps

When Patton was given command of the U.S. II Corps, replacing Major General Lloyd Fredendall, it had just been defeated by the German Afrika Korps. With the change of command, Patton was promoted to lieutenant general.

1. Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
   Battle of Medenine
2. Battle of the Mareth Line
   Battle of El Guettar

When the Allied forces under General Patton first arrived at El Guettar, Tunisia, they faced little resistance because the Italian troops who occupied the town retreated into the surrounding mountains. However, once the Italians held this position, they launched several attacks against the Americans with the help of German tank units, though these attacks were unsuccessful.

1. He was supposed to be on the battlefield.
   He cheated on his wife.
2. He slapped the soldier.
   He refused to return to the United States.

The horrors of WWII affected thousands of soldiers, giving them what is now called PTSD. However, Patton, who thrived during times of war, refused to accept any excuses for soldiers to skip out on the action, leading to him slapping multiple soldiers suffering from PTSD.

1. Sicily
   Spain
2. Greece
   Switzerland

Patton was one of the most aggressive commanders during the Sicily Campaign, where he commanded the Seventh U.S. Army. At one point, Patton supposedly ignored a message for him to hold off on attacking Messina, claiming the message never reached his camp.

1. Biscari Massacre
   Jilava Massacre
2. Palawan Massacre
   Piazza Tasso Massacre

Initially, after hearing of the Biscari Massacre, Patton dismissed the claims, believing they were exaggerations, as he sought to focus on the war. However, his views were challenged, and he eventually decided the troops who committed the act should stand trial.

1. Dunkirk
   Ostend
2. St. Malo
   Pas de Calais

The Germans feared General Patton as much — if not more — than any other Allied forces general during WWII, knowing that he was willing to fight to the end. Even when it became clear that the invasion was being launched elsewhere, the Germans refused to move troops from Pas de Calais in case Patton came ashore there.

1. U.S. First Army
   U.S. Second Army
2. U.S. Third Army
   U.S. Fourth Army

The U.S. Third Army was first activated in 1918 during WWI, though it was disbanded the following year as the war came to a close. The force was reactivated in 1932 when the U.S. Army was reorganized, though it served no major purpose until WWII.

1. Kursk
   Bastogne
2. Aachen
   Paris

Several important roads through the Ardennes met at Bastogne, which meant the city had to be captured if the Germans wanted to capture Antwerp. Ally forces in Bastogne had to stem off the German siege for seven days before they were relieved by Patton and the Third Army.

1. Auschwitz
   Chelmno
2. Dachau
   Buchenwald

The Buchenwald concentration camp was finally liberated in April of 1945, revealing the horrors of German antisemitism throughout the war. To show them what their leaders had done, German civilians were marched through the camp.

1. Five-star general
   Three-star general
2. Four-star general
   Five-star general

Only five soldiers from WWII received the five-star ranking of General of the Army: George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry Arnold and Omar Bradley. Patton, who often spoke out against other commanders, only received the four-star ranking, partly because he wasn't well-liked.

1. Stray bullet
   Fever
2. Car crash
   Heart attack

While still in Europe following WWII, General Patton was involved in a car crash where the car he was in collided with an Army truck. Patton hit his head in the crash, which paralyzed him from the neck down. He died a few weeks later in the hospital.