WWII history,not some movie, tells of the 101st Airborn Div. about to be over run in Bastogne by the Germans Armored units during the Battle of the Bulge & of all the combat ready US 3rd Army units held in reserve in France - who did Eisenhower & Bradly pick to send to save Bastogne & the 101 AB Div. ?
Why that rascl Patton & his 3rd Armored Div.
Who as military history relates his officers & enlisted men would follow Patton's orders into hell.
In fact the !00st AB held out & even if the Germans took Bastogne at that late date they had exhausted all of their supplies & would not have been able to hold it,Bastogne.
Patton's forces traveled day I night & overcame little German resistance & relieved Bastogne as ordrerd.
Eisenhower & Bradly could not have sent a better man with his loyal junior officers soldiers & they knew it !
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