Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "George S. Patton - Old Blood and Guts Documentary" video.

  1. If he was such a 'genius' what went so badly wrong in the Lorraine campaign/Metz?
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  2. Would you like to read a US Army analysis of his Lorraine Campaign? Genius is not really the conclusions it reached.
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  3. As he only became relevant from August, 1944, how did you come to that conclusion?
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  4. Sadly, too many people have seen the movie 'Patton -Lust for Glory,' based on Ladislas Farago's ridiculous hagiography of Patton. Much like other Hollywood travesties, they think it must be true because it is in the film.
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  5. How can you compare an army commander with the successful commander of an Army Group?
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  6. Seriously? He only actually played a minor, or irrelevant, part, until August 1944.
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  7. How exactly would the war in Europe have ended in 1943?
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  8. 'During his honey moon with Beatrice he toured western Europe with a travel map and detailed the geography as if anticipated WW2.' As he married in 1910, that was clever!
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  9. Based on a novel written by a journalist?
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  10. George C. Scott was absolutely brilliant. Probably the best comedy performance of his career. Michael Bates, who lampooned Montgomery in the same movie, was also a great comic actor, subsequently famed for his performances as Blamire in 'Last of the Summer Wine' and, blacked up (!), in 'It Ain't Half Hot, Mum.' I vividly remember seeing the movie in a cinema years ago. Not many people in , but those who were there were rocking with laughter.
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