George S. Patton 乔治·巴顿
（重定向自Old Blood and Guts）
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![Patton at Virginia Military Institute](/Images/godic/202501/30/Patton_at_VMI_19075822.jpg")
![Patton (at right) fencing in the modern pentathlon of the 1912 Summer Olympics](/Images/godic/202501/30/1912_fencing_patton_and_mas_latrie5822.jpg")
![Patton on his steeplechase horse, Wooltex, in 1914](/Images/godic/202501/30/Wooltex_and_George_S_Patton5822.jpg")
George Smith Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a senior officer of the United States Army, who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean and European Theaters of World War II, but is best known for his leadership of the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.