When people thing of World War II many things come to mind: Gas Chambers, Nazis, "Japs", and General George S. Patton. George S. Patton is one of the most controversial issues of World War II. People have called him a great and heroic man, while others called him a pre-madonna. No matter which view you have of Patton one thing is true, Patton played a significant part in the Second World War. George Patton was a descendent of a wealthy Virginia family. [Patton R.] Patton was born in 1885, in San Gabriel, California. In 1909, He graduated from West Point. It was afterwards that he started his career in the mili