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George Patton IV

United States Army general (1923–2004) and son of George Patton

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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George Smith Patton IV was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George S. Patton Jr. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

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“George Patton IV” enters the record as united States Army general (1923–2004) and son of George Patton. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what George, Patton and United can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “George Patton IV” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.