
II Corps
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Sep 15, 2026
320 - Patton Reconsidered
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16:27James EllmanGUEST
You know, they might've gotten killed, but at least they had a tie on.
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16:30James EllmanGUEST
Y- you know, General Robinett, who ran one of the combat commands in the First Armored Division in II Corps, says, "Uh, our morale was fine before, our morale was after.
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16:38James EllmanGUEST
He didn't do anything." The, um, uh, historian for the First Armored Division says the same thing.
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16:45James EllmanGUEST
He couldn't find anyone who said that Patton did a great job.
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16:48James EllmanGUEST
The First Infantry Division basically comes to hate Patton, which comes out in, uh, the end of the Sicily campaign.
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16:56James EllmanGUEST
Bradley said just after a few days of Patton at II Corps, the men at II Corps, the staff, were fighting mad, but at, not at the Germans, at Patton.
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17:06James EllmanGUEST
And Patton of- also goes out and personally humiliates General Allen in front of his own troops, and almost gets shot by Allen's personal bodyguard for it, and he has to make a quick getaway because he treated him so poorly.
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17:20James EllmanGUEST
Finally, there's actually the part about the fighting and the battle, which is that II Corps was significantly reinforced.