User blog:El Alamein/Bernard Montgomery vs. George Patton



Things get personal with the deadliest battle World War II never saw as two of the Allied forces' greatest generals turn their tactics - and rifles - on each other! Bernard Montgomery, the strategic genius behind the Battle of El Alamein, master of long-ranged desert combat and a fighting retreat, takes on George Patton, the hard-as-nails general who held off the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge and chased them all the way back to Berlin! Both men were real-life rivals, and competed for honor and glory in the Second World War, but only one will be the deadliest warrior!

Bernard Montgomery
Bernard Law Montgomery was an officer in the British Army. He was second lietenant during the First World War and the commander of the British 8th Army during the Second World War. His most famous victory, at the battle of El Alamein (from which a certain resident user found inspiration in the creation of his username), turned the tide of the Second World War in favor of the Allied forces - the Allies had won no major victory previous to El Alamein and suffered no major defeat following El Alamein. Montgomery was a master of desert warfare and a strategic genius, employing an impressive defense against Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps before launching a massive counterattack that removed Axis presence from North Africa and allowed the Allied invasion of Italy. After the war, Montgomery enjoyed the title 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, and later died in 1976.

George Patton
George Smith Patton, Jr.was an officer in the United States Army and a general during World War II. He also developed a reputation for eccentricity, and sometimes controversial gruff outspokenness—such as during his profanity-laced speech to his expeditionary troops. He was on the U.S. 1912 Olympic pentathlon team and also designed the U.S. Cavalry's last combat saber: the "Patton Saber". In 1916 he led the first-ever U.S. motorized-vehicle attack during the Mexican Border Campaign. In World War I, he was the first officer assigned to the new United States Tank Corps and saw action in France. In World War II, he commanded corps and armies in North Africa, Sicily, and the European Theater of Operations. In 1944, Patton assumed command of the U.S. Third Army, which under his leadership advanced farther, captured more enemy prisoners, and liberated more territory in less time than any other army in history. He was killed in a car accident shortly after the war ended in 1945. TO BE FINISHED DO NOT VOTE