vie does deal with the famous slapping incident. The movie does notmention that the soldier later became an abusive alcoholic. Even though Pattoneventually gives in and offers a public apology, the incident keeps him out of action. Because of the negative public reaction, he ended up being a decoy during theNormandy invasion. The movie does not give an understandable background for D-Day.The tanks used in the major battle scenes in the movie were post war tanks and they werenot the same type of tanks that were actually used. Ironically, the tanks used on theGerman side in the movie are called Patton 1s. When the Germans had reached theMeuse and lower Rhine rivers and the Americans were coming up against the west wall.The Allies' most serious problem was that they had run out of supplies. The movie doesdiscuss this problem and Patton's frustration with it. Omar Bradley is shown to beconservative and level headed. Bradley begins the film serving under Patton and ends thefilm as Patton's superior. The two are shown to be friends even though each finds faultwith the other's methods. In reality, Bradley did not like Patton and Patton despisedBradley. The interesting thing is that Omar Bradley was the military consultant for thePatton movie and made sure that the movie portrayed him (General Bradley played byKarl Malden) in a positive light. On March 22 the U.S. Third Army, under Patton hadseized a bridge south of Mainz. The movie shows Patton's march across the bridge butdid not include the fact that he deliberately urinated from the middle of the bridge. Alikeness between the real Patton and the Movie PattonThe real Patton was correctly portrayed as a motivating speaker. Patton, in reallife and in the film was a born leader. The movie was accurate in showing Patton as adedicated student of military history, a master tactician and an arrogant, foul moutheddifficult man. Patton was not a friendly, easy going person. He was har...
