https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mOHt4-Xdo
General George S. Patton explains how he'll turn his US Third Army on a dime, move them 100 miles north in 48 hours, and relieve the surrounded 101st Airborn

https://www.historynet.com/general-george-s-patton-and-the-battle-of-the-bulge-2/
An advance German unit was twenty miles from the Meuse. The vanguard of Patton's Third Army was about that distance from Bastogne but proceeding at a disadvantage. As Army Air Forces General Otto Weyland, responsible for the Bulge area, put it: "The weather was so terrible. It was white when you looked down, white when you looked up."

https://www.army.mil/botb/
Within days, Patton's Third Army had relieved Bastogne, and to the north, the 2nd U.S. Armored Division stopped enemy tanks short of the Meuse River on Christmas. Through January, American troops

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/pattons-fateful-verdun-meeting/
By Kevin M. Hymel. On the morning of December 19, Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr., prepared his Third Army for a battle raging north of him—the Battle of the Bulge. Three days earlier, three German armies had burst out of the Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxembourg and smashed into Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' First Army.

https://www.historyonthenet.com/pattons-role-in-d-day
The troops cheered George S. Patton and his remarks. He soon learned that he was to lead the Third Army and that his first responsibility was to clear the Brest peninsula of Germans. Patton's presence was still a secret to the enemy. He wrote to his wife Beatrice on July 10, 1944, "Sunday I went to a field mass. It was quite impressive.

https://history.army.mil/books/wwii/Beachhd_Btlefrnt/ChapterXV.html
In the Third Army sector, Patton's XV Corps at Le Mans was to make a 45-degree turn north and advance toward Argentan. (See Map 7.) Getting under way on 10 August, Third Army's XV Corps, spearheaded by the 5th Armored and 2d French Armored Divisions, was in the neighborhood of Argentan on 13 August. ... AFHQ prepared for the battle. Planning

http://www.pattonhq.com/textfiles/thirdhst.html
Officially, the Third Army was changed from a training army to a combat army on December 31, 1943. 1944 - 1945 Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. On New Year's Eve 1943, the Third Army was put on alert for overseas movement. They would travel to England where they would train for participation in the coming European invasions.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/the-battle-of-arracourt-pattons-third-army-vs-manteuffels-panzers/
Lieutenant General George S. Patton, Jr., the commander of the newly constituted U.S. Third Army, had one simple order that late summer of 1944: "Go east and go like Hell.". That directive would pit him against Manteuffel's panzers in late September during the Battle of Arracourt. Since the beginning of August that year, Patton's tanks

https://whatsoproudlywehail.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Patton_Speech-to-the-Third-Army.pdf
Speech to the Third Army GEORGE S. PATTON JR. This selection, taken from The Unknown Patton, a biography by Charles M. Province, deals with the memorable speech by General George Patton (1885-1945) to the Third Army on June 5, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of Europe. The first part presents the

https://www.15minutehistorypodcast.org/episodes/george-patton-and-the-third-army
The Third Army entered Germany in March 1945, and Patton memorialized the historic movement by urinating into the Rhine River. SHAEF wanted to drive forward to join hands with the Russians as far east as possible, and Eisenhower often ordered armies to bypass heavily-defended German cities and let Allied bombers reduce them to ashes.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/patton-in-lorraine-breaking-the-moselle-line/
Patton's Third Army found itself mired in a morass as it struggled against fuel shortages, flooded rivers, and fresh German panzer units in September 1944. ... Both corps commanders had received intelligence reports that two Panzergrenadier divisions, the 3rd and 17th, were prepared to contest the crossing, and that they would likely be

https://americangimuseum.org/lieutenant-general-george-s-patton-takes-command-of-third-army/
The Third Army consisted of the 8th, 12th, 15th, and 20th Army Corps. The 20th Corps remained under Patton throughout his march. After the town of Avranches was taken on July 31, his army blasted forward with immense speed until September 24 — when the Third Army had to stop near Moselle due to a lack of supplies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton%27s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Patton in 1944. Patton's speech to the Third Army was a series of speeches given by General George S. Patton to troops of the United States Third Army in 1944, before the Allied invasion of France.The speeches were intended to motivate the inexperienced Third Army for impending combat. Patton urged his soldiers to do their duty regardless of personal fear, and he exhorted them to

https://www.unithistories.com/units/3rd%20US%20Army.php
Third United States Army Dare and Endure: World War II STANTON, S.L., World War II Order of Battle , Stackpole Books, Machanicsburg, PA, USA, 2006 (ISBN: 9780811701570)

https://www.historyonthenet.com/when-patton-enlisted-the-entire-third-army-to-pray-for-fair-weather
After one month's fighting, Patton's Third Army had liberated 873 towns and 1,600 square miles. In addition, they had killed or wounded an estimated 88,000 enemy soldiers and taken another 30,000 prisoner. Patton next prepared for the breakthrough to the River Rhine, a formidable natural obstacle to the invasion of Germany by the Allies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Central
The United States Army Central, formerly the Third United States Army, commonly referred to as the Third Army and as ARCENT, is a military formation of the United States Army that saw service in World War I and World War II, in the 1991 Gulf War, and in the coalition occupation of Iraq.It is best known for its campaigns in World War II under the command of General George S. Patton.

http://www.hommage-general-patton.org/en/the-liberation.htm
Gen. Patton and Third Army Prepares for France. On 22 Jan 1944, Patton received word of his selection to lead the Third Army. Planned as an exploiting element once the initial lodgment had been established ashore in Normandy, the Third Army barely existed as a fighting force. With many of the divisions untried and staff echelons inexperienced

http://pattonthirdarmy.com/third-army/
3rd Army. General Patton was one of the U.S. Army's and America's greatest commanding Generals . When Third Army was moved to France, in July of 1944, they began a great dash across France. The Germans launched their last great offensive of the war - the Battle of the Bulge. In one of the great moves of.

https://archive.org/details/NotesOnBastogneOperation3rdU.s.Army
By December 10, 1944, the Saar Offensive of the 3rd Army, begun on November 8, had progressed to the point where the XX Corps had forced a crossing of the Saar at Saarlautern, using the 90th and 95th Infantry Divisions, and had the 5th Infantry and l0th Armored Divisions prepared to exploit the impending break-through of the Siegried Line in

https://home.army.mil/benelux/my-fort/news/six-months-after-d-day-battle-bulge-brings-europe-close-war-end
By July the Allied forces had fought their way off the beaches and were prepared to charge full-throttle east. The German Seventh Army was being crushed by the weight of unending Allied ground and air attacks. ... On Aug. 1, Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army exploded out of the Cotentin Peninsula and charged into the Avranches corridor in

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/third-army-continues-to-preserve-the-legacy-of-general-george-s-patton-jr/ar-BB1n7Iwh
SUMTER, SC (WIS) - Third Army Commanding General George S. Patton Jr. continues to have his memory preserved at Patton Hall at Third Army Headquarters on Shaw Air Force Base. "He was a dynamic

https://www.usarcent.army.mil/About/History/Timeline/
U.S. Army Central, formerly Third Army, is a unit rich in history and steeped in the tradition of victory on the battlefield. ... LTG General George S. Patton, Jr. takes command of Third Army. D-DAY JUNE 6, 1944: JULY 5, 1944. Third Army Headquarters lands on French soil as part of the Normandy landings, which began on D-Day. AUGUST 1, 1944.

https://curtiswrightmaps.com/product/third-us-army/
This understated map of the European Theater during WWII uses a unique strategy to chronicle the advance of the Third United States Army, led by General George S. Patton. A base map, likely of French origin, shows the major towns and transportation routes, but the fine details are nearly illegible. Emphasis is instead given to the color scheme