The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries — Season 1, Episode 31: George S. Patton - American Achilles

Episode synopsis

He longed for combat, saying that he was destined for war. Serving on the punitive hunt for Pancho Villa, Patton enjoyed a brief moment of fame for gunning down some of Villa's lieutenants and returning to US camps with their bodies draped over the hood of his jeep. It was a small taste of the glory he deeply desired, a desire nearly stolen from him by an injury sustained in World War I that took him out of the thick of fighting. He would return as a ferocious, implacable military commander in World War II, as the first US General to battle against the Nazi forces. His outstanding tactics in the Mediterranean as well as his brilliant command of the mobile tank forces in Europe changed the battlefield. But Patton's belligerence, his profane and violent mood-swings that erupted on his own men, were nearly his undoing.

About The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries

A series of documentaries covering a wealth of historical epochs touched upon in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992).

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Archaeology: Unearthing Our Past
• E2Howard Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun
• E3Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
• E4From Slavery to Freedom
• E5Theodore Roosevelt and The American Century
• E6Ecology - Pulse of the Planet
• E7American Dreams - Norman Rockwell & The Saturday Evening Post
• E8Art Rebellion - The Making of the Modern
• E9Edgar Degas - Reluctant Rebel
• E10Braque & Picasso - A Collaboration Cubed
• E11Giacomo Puccini - Music of the Heart
• E12It's Opera!