The Great Disaster of George Patton and Montgomery at the Conquest of Sicily in 1943

Today we are going to see a very little known anecdote of the Second World War, one of those totally unfortunate episodes that are not widely disseminated since they show the worst parts of a conflict.
And it is that, if wars are already horrible, and it is already hard to have to fight against people from another country, there is something worse still and that is to end the lives of soldiers of your own side by mistake. And this is exactly what we are going to see in this video, which also has nothing more and nothing less than George Patton himself as the protagonist.
And we are referring specifically to a friendly fire accident that occurred on July 11, 1943, in the middle of the Allied invasion of Sicily, which involved the downing of 23 planes and 550 casualties among the dead and wounded.

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📣Other videos of interest:
- The Story of The Last Soldier to Die of World War I

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[JohnnyCirucci]

20 year vet (Army, USMC, Iraq). Thank you for this.

Montgomery was an incompetent who preferred little boys (why he was promoted).

Patton was an aggressive primidone, cavalier with the lives of his men as long as it brought him glory.

GI 1: "There he goes, ole Blood & Guts."
GI 2: "Yeah. Our blood, his guts."

Bradley, "the soldier's general" was a Freemason. During the danger of assassination during Germany's "Battle of the Bulge" Arden offensive, he and Eisenhower cowered in bunkers ordering take-out.

[bigwoody]

At 2:54 Monty can't even look Patton in the face

[rickpilhorn]

As a paratrooper, I've been told about this since jump school. It's why we fight navy pukes at every bar.

[rosesprog]

The allies could have landed directly in Sicily rather than landing in north Africa first, have fight Rommel, lose a lot of men and then have to regroup and start from scratch for the Sicily operation which made everyone look like they had no idea what they were doing BUT, Churchill was obsessed with north Africa. Of course Suez had to be kept open for India but clearly there was something else at play here and although everyone was perfectly aware of it and annoyed by it, big boy refused to reveal his motivations. One could speculate that he had received orders from his secret backers but we might end up enjoying ourselves a little too much here.
The Germans may have been exceptional warriors but here they didn't even have to be, compared to how this bloody nightmare played out, anyone would have looked great.

[codyflowers]

All this confusion was caused by the technology of the day and war. Patton was a history man and very educated. Fear or respect for Patton one has to admire his fight. Take NO SHIT and give them hell

[patrickcalabro]

It 👀 looks like War Academy has a fair amount of “Montgomery and Patton Derangement Syndrome!” Without having the research 🔬 in front of me now, I can safely say that it was not Georgie’s or Monty’s job to alert 🚨 the Navy about the paratroopers overhead! That was the job of Eisenhower and Alexander. Don’t tell me 🙉 that they didn’t know about the paratroopers! The mission was known and had to be approved by the High Commanders. thank you 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🎌 🚩 🧑‍🎤 🏁

[manomoskofian]

Because Paton was an arrogant general.