e west ofEl-'Alamein. General Bernard Law Montgomery fought with Patton, and forced Rommelinto a retreat. Throughout the movie, Rommel and Patton are seen as major adversaries. Three American, three British, and one Canadian divisions landed on Sicily on July 10,1943. One of these divisions was General Patton's army. They pushed across the islandand overcame the last Axis opposition on August 17. The movie does not mention,however, that Mussolini had been stripped of power on July 25, and the Italiangovernment had entered into negotiations that ended in an armistice on September 8.The movie 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 ...
