Patton's Brittany Sideshow

Patton's Brittany Sideshow
With Kevin Hymel
Part of our Brittany Campaign series
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Also part of our 80th Anniversary Series
• 80th Anniversary Special
Following his participation in the later stages of Cobra, coming after his "probationary" period ahead of DDay, General George Patton felt his stock was rising once more. With the Germans on the run in Normandy, what now for his Third Army? In today's show, we will talk about the months of August and September for Patton, and especially his apparent lack of enthusiasm for the planned liberation of Brittany.
Kevin M. Hymel is a contract historian at Arlington National Cemetery and a Historian/Tour Guide of Ambrose Historical Tours, leading the “In Patton’s Footsteps” tour. For fifteen years he was the research director of and regular contributor to WWII History and WWII Quarterly. He is a regular on WW2TV
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[@davidpitchford6510]

Love Kevin Hymel as a guest.. THANK YOU GENTLEMEN!

[@brianyee5504]

Always a treat when Kevin is on. Thanks gents!

[@georgecooksey8216]

Excellent discussion. Thank you Paul and Kevin.

[@jimwalsh1958space]

Lot's here about patton i never knew. Excellent. thank you

[@walterecklund1502]

Great job Paul. Love to see Kevin as a guest. Well done.

[@StewartHall-jj7wt]

So much info that I was unaware of. Great presentation by Kevin Hymel. Thank you Woody, and GO Ipswich Town F.C.

[@jimwatts914]

Great show from Kevin the chief Patton expert. Loved the maps and the veterans’s saga. Best WW2 channel on KZbin.

[@TomMullen-hn7wc]

Brilliant! I need to read Kevin’s books. Tom Mullen

[@nielshenkemans]

Seriously good talk by Kevin. Love how he takes a very balanced approach to Patton and all that surrounds him.

[@DaveGordon-up5ln]

Great show, thanks Kevin & Paul!

[@KevinJones-yh2jb]

Managed to see what I missed earlier, a pleasure to always to hear Kevin, great presentation Kevin and Woody thank you both

[@cameronsimpson-ld8nk]

Another cracking interview with Kevin

[@johnlucas8479]

Great presentation

[@gregoryriley3993]

Outstanding!

[@Na808Koa]

Nice conclusion of the Brittany series, thanks to Kevin and yourself for another informative presentation.

[@davidlavigne207]

Great work by Kevin on describing Patton and his Brittany campaign. I appreciated his objective criticisms of Patton as well as his praises. I found so many parallels between him and Rommel as they were both very aggressive and offensive minded. They both advanced the ideas of mobile warfare and kind of forced their respective commands to adapt to keep up. It did cause friction all the same. I think Kevin addressed the need to capture Brittany and its ports despite the destruction of them by the Germans. They were necessary despite the delays it caused.

[@dermotrooney9584]

I like the way Kevin prodded that weird argument that Patton was bad at logistics because he went far and fast. 🤷‍♂️ Would love to play with that data.

[@davidlavigne207]

@@dermotrooney9584 Me too Dermont. I'm sure he would share his research. Lovely comment.

[@lesliebeilby-tipping6854]

Mont Saint Michel you can see for 30 miles on a clear day!!

[@adammagazine]

I can’t wait to watch this. Great topic!

[@peterbrown1208]

I'm reading Kevin'books now. Wonderfully informative writer as are his presentations. Wish the Ethernet would cooperate tho. Great stuff as always Paul.

[@garyaugust1953]

Always enjoy Kevin's presentations. Slight irk with Internet connection, but it didn't lessen anything. Patton is Patton, love him, or loath him, the Germans feared him. Ultimately, all our marmite leaders got the job done.

[@abrahamoyevaar2226]

G'day Woody. Pity about the internet, but fascinating nonetheless. Have a lot of catching up to do on Arnhem week because of work and Port Adelaide getting to AFL semi finals. Thanks Woody and Kevin , peace and blessings be upon you x

[@billyshakespeare17]

Hello Paul. How do you do it?????

[@philbosworth3789]

I'm not sure quite how many episodes WW2TV has done on the Brittany campaign recently, that that one from Kevin was a good way of round the series off.

[@duwop544]

Patton kept in touch with his front. MacArthur never touched Korean soil.

[@victornewman9904]

We need a new book about "Patton's Enemies" - generally everybody who he felt was competition.

[@WW2TV]

It might be a big book lol

[@dermotrooney9584]

Stylish. 🌟

[@MegaBloggs1]

Dont forget with the Brittany push it also stops the u-boat use of this peninsula or least significant resupply

[@donrussell1394]

I'm no expert, but I've often wondered in silence if the Rhino tank's real impact has been overblown over the years, simply because of the timing. As Kevin proposes, "Too little too late?"

[@WW2TV]

I agree about their practical effect, but I think having them had a huge influence on morale in tank units

[@larrytestmi5976]

Patton was a cavalry man.

[@marcsteenbergen8541]

Awesome, Patton lost his Pilots licence in 1942, did he ever used i in France?

[@MegaBloggs1]

its unfortunate that lightning joe collins comments in "World at war" were edited precipitately because he was going to say 10000 germans were killed and 50000 captured in the falaise pocket.

[@MegaBloggs1]

I would like to ask Kevin if patton didnt get restricted by petrol if he thinks patton would have have at least broken through to the upper rhine? without being cut off?

[@flashgordon6670]

Why did the guest’s mic keep cutting out about every 20 - 30 seconds, for a couple of seconds each time?

[@WW2TV]

It cut but there was no loss of content, the speed just picked up

[@dermotrooney9584]

@@flashgordon6670 Because digital communications hate good generalship. I wrote a heap of reports about it.

[@WW2TV]

Ha

[@jonrettich-ff4gj]

I suspect some of the Brittany issues had much to do with the friction between Montgomery and Bradley. I believe I read somewhere that Bradley felt we could catch the Germans on the other side of the Seine. Having read Patton’s North Africa evaluation going from grand strategy to spanner sizes and his classic research of alternative routes wherever he found himself, something the confederate Richard Taylor speaks about in his memoirs, it is obvious that Patton was not only an amazing combat leader, flawed as all, but was an absolutely meticulous craftsman in the art of war. As far as I’m concerned that stupid movie should have made his real capabilities clearer without sacrificing the entertainment aspect. Thank you and your guest for another fine presentation