George S. Patton once said he did not measure a man's success by how high he climbed, but by how high he bounces when he hits bottom. It is the kind of line that gets stitched onto motivational ...

Dwight D. Eisenhower Prior to World War II, Dwight Eisenhower had resigned himself to finishing out a distinguished but ...

General George S. Patton survived the battlefields of World War II but suffered a fatal injury in a low-speed car crash in ...

Patton truly expressed a very similar thought, albeit with a different ending. The original quote, which can be found in his posthumous 1947 memoir, "War as I Knew It," read: "May God have mercy upon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Let it not be said that Gen. George Patton didn't know his way around a Renault FT tank. (U.S. Army) Patton first saw combat ...

George S. Patton, who was the son of the famous World War II general and who became a major general in the Army himself, died June 27 at his home in Hamilton, Mass., at age 80. He had a degenerative ...

“No matter where we moved,” wrote Beatrice Patton of her husband seven years after his death in 1945, “there was never enough room for the books. We were indeed lucky that an army officer’s ...

Benjamin W. Patton stands with his father, Gen. George Patton in 1978 at the North Africa American Cemetery in Tunisia. His grandfather, Gen. George S. Patton commanded the U.S. II Corps in 1943.