What Eisenhower Did After Patton Slapped a Soldier in Sicily

What Eisenhower did after Patton slapped a soldier in Sicily was never a single decision. It was a sequence, made in private, that held for 110 days until a radio columnist named Drew Pearson told America that George Patton would never again be used in combat. This documentary covers the two incidents of August 3 and August 10, 1943, involving Private Charles H. Kuhl of the 26th Infantry and Private Paul G. Bennett of the 17th Field Artillery, at the 15th and 93rd Evacuation Hospitals. It follows Eisenhower's August 17 letter of reprimand, the ordered apologies, the agreement with the war correspondents, the Pearson broadcast of November 21, the Senate and Congressional reaction, and the Army's changing doctrine on combat exhaustion. It ends with Patton's Third Army command and his role as the phantom commander of the First United States Army Group in Operation Fortitude. Every date, unit, quotation, and figure comes from the published record: the Eisenhower letters, Patton's diary, medical reports, the Army's neuropsychiatric history, and the standard biographies. Where the sources disagree, the video says so. Subscribe for the definitive history of the United States in the Second World War — new documentaries every few days. #WW2 #WorldWarII #Patton #Eisenhower #Sicily1943 #WWIIHistory #DrewPearson #OperationHusky #MilitaryHistory #USAInWW2