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|branch= |serviceyears=1946–1980 (USMA: 1942–1946) |rank= Major General 35px |unit= |commands=A/140/40th Infantry Division, 2nd Battalion/81st Armored/1st Armored Division, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division |Education= West Point, Class of 1946 |battles=Korean War Vietnam War *Tet Offensive |awards=Distinguished Service Cross (2) Silver Star (2) Legion of Merit (3) Distinguished Flying Cross Bronze Star (2) with "V" Device Meritorious Service Medal Purple Heart |laterwork=Farmer Co-author, ''The Fighting Pattons'' |relations=George S. Patton, father }} George Smith Patton, IV (December 24, 1923 – June 27, 2004) was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II general, George S. Patton, Jr.. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War. ==Military biography== A 1946 graduate of West Point Patton was initially trained as an infantry officer. His first assignment was to Regensburg, West Germany where he participated in the 1948 Berlin Airlift. The troops under his command were used to load supplies onto Air Force transport aircraft bound for Berlin. In 1952,he joined the 63rd tank Bn Co C 1st Infantry division as a platoon leader. A year after he returned from Germany, he married Joanne Holbrook. ;Korean War Patton served in Korea starting in February 1953, commanding "A" Company of the 140th Tank Battalion, 40th Infantry Division. Patton received his first Silver Star and the Purple Heart in Korea. Returning to the United States in 1954, Patton, now a captain, was initially assigned to West Point but was quickly picked up as part of an exchange program and was sent to teach at the United States Naval Academy. ;Vietnam War Patton served a total of three tours of duty in South Vietnam, the first from April 1962 to April 1963 at Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, during which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He then took command of the 2nd Medium Tank Battalion, 81st Armored Regiment of the 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood Texas, before his second tour in 1967, this one lasting only three months.〔(Moïse's Bibliography: U.S. Military Men )〕 During Patton's final and most intense tour, lasting from January 1968 to January 1969, he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses for his actions on the battlefield.〔(George Smith Patton, Major General, United States Army )〕 During this final tour, he was initially assigned as Chief of Operations and Plans at Headquarters, United States Army Vietnam. However, after his promotion to colonel in April 1968, he was given command of the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. During his three tours in Vietnam, Patton, who frequently used helicopters as a mobile command post, was shot down three times and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. ;Brigadier general After Vietnam, he was promoted to brigadier general in June 1970 before becoming the commanding officer of the U.S. 2nd Armored Division, a unit his father had commanded in North Africa during World War II, making this the first time in U.S. Army history that a father and a son had both commanded the same division. The Abramses were the second to accomplish this feat. Brigadier General Patton was Deputy Post Commander at Fort Knox, Kentucky during 1972. Patton was known by the troops as a "GI General," often appearing in A-2-3 Dining Hall during meal times. Often the general would be behind the serving line. ;Major general Major General Patton was assigned to the VII Corps in Germany, as the Deputy Commander. He was stationed near Stuttgart, where Manfred Rommel, son of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, was a government officer who later became the city's mayor and the two met for the first time. The sons of the two former adversaries entered a much publicized friendship, which continued until the general's death in 2004. The men shared the same birthday, December 24. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Patton IV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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