George S. Patton slapping incidents
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title:
George S. Patton slapping incidents
text:
In early August 1943, Lieutenant General George S. Patton slapped two United States Army soldiers under his command during the Sicily Campaign of World War II. Patton's hard-driving personality and lack of belief in the medical condition of combat stress reaction, then known as "battle fatigue" or "shell shock", led to the soldiers' becoming the subject of his ire in incidents on August 3 and 10, when Patton struck and berated them after discovering they were patients at evacuation hospitals awa
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1943 incidents during the WW2 Allied invasion of Sicily
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton_slapping_incidents
date created:
2009-04-12T03:40:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T19:00:18Z
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