George Smith Patton was a general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, then the Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.

“World War 2 soldiers” refers to the men and women who served in the military during World War II, with over 16 million Americans alone fighting in the conflict, often called “G.I.’s” in reference to the U.S. Army, and participating in major battles like Normandy, Midway, and Iwo Jima across various fronts in Europe and the Pacific