What battles did George S Patton Lose?

Answer 1

I can't think of any.

A young Lieutenant Patton was along on the Punitive Expedition under General Pershing in 1916, chasing around trying to catch Pancho Villa in northern Mexico, and they never caught Villa. I'm not sure they really wanted to though, but they probably could not have no matter what.

There was one episode, very late in WWII, the "Hamelburg Affair". Patton's son-in-law, Colonel Waters, was a German Prisoner of War, held in a POW camp at Hamelburg in Germany. Without authorization from Bradley or Eisenhower, when his forces reached within about thirty miles of this town, Patton gathered a small Task Force of a few hundred men, and sent them off, deep behind enemy lines to try to liberate the prisoners in this camp. The Task Force reached the camp and very briefly got some of the prisoners out, but were soon overwhelmed by reacting Germans forces, and all survivors of the "rescuers" became prisoners themselves, and almost all the recently freed prisoners were retaken. Patton was very worried over public reaction when this was related in the news, but Franklin Roosevelt died at that time, and that dominated the news.

Some of Patton's campaigns, such as Metz, took a little longer than he had anticipated, but there, as everywhere, he eventually reached his objectives.

Answer 2

General Patton won no battles, as such, in World War Two. He had a role to play in clearing Sicily of the enemy, but Great Britain's Field Marshal Montgomery played the greater part in Sicily, plus going on to command ALL the ground forces on D-Day, at which General Patton played no part.

General Patton's 3rd Army came to the rescue of the American troops trapped in the little town of Bastogne, in the Ardenne Offensive, plus assisting with British and other allies in the defeat of Nazi Germany in May, 1945.

Answer 3

Patton was involved in the Battle of the Bulge, the Crossing of the Rhine River and spearheaded Operation Cobra.

Answer 4

None