Patton's Top 3 Tactical Masterpieces

George S. Patton was loud, controversial and often impossible to work with - but few commanders in history understood speed the way he did. From the dash across Sicily to the breakout from Normandy and the legendary ninety-degree turn to relieve Bastogne, these are Patton's three greatest tactical masterpieces. 0:00 Introduction 1:04 Masterpiece I: The Sicilian Sprint (Sicily, 1943) 3:02 The drive on Palermo 4:30 The race for Messina 6:07 Masterpiece II: Through the Bottleneck (Normandy, 1944) 8:25 Breakout and the Falaise Pocket 10:47 Masterpiece III: The Ninety-Degree Turn (Ardennes, 1944) 14:08 The relief of Bastogne 15:35 Legacy Sources Albert N. Garland & Howard McGaw Smyth, "Sicily and the Surrender of Italy" (U.S. Army Center of Military History) Martin Blumenson, "Breakout and Pursuit" (U.S. Army Center of Military History) Hugh M. Cole, "The Ardennes: Battle of the Bulge" (U.S. Army Center of Military History) Wikipedia: Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Cobra, Falaise pocket, Siege of Bastogne, George S. Patton Archival footage (public domain): U.S. National Archives (United News 1943, Army Signal Corps films ADC-1672b, ADC-1970c, ADC-2135a, ADC-2640b, ADC-6219, ARC-39153; U.S. Navy films NPC-15676, NPC-1913), Universal Newsreel (1944-11-02, 1945-01-11), "General Patton Laid to Rest" (1946) - via the Internet Archive. Portraits: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian (CC0) and U.S. Army (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons. Satellite imagery: Sentinel-2 cloudless - https://s2maps.eu by EOX IT Services GmbH (Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016 & 2017), CC BY 4.0. Map data: Natural Earth (public domain). Place names: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Narration voice, music and sound effects generated with ElevenLabs. Subscribe to Flankwise for more tactical masterpieces: https://www.youtube.com/@Flankwise?su... #Patton #WW2 #MilitaryHistory