George Smith Patton, Jr., (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a General of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany following D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. **Source**: [George S. Patton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton) on Wikipedia.