
06/01/2025
Today at the Patton monument near Néhou, Normandy. George S Patton’s HQ was secretly located here in July 1944. The General’s whereabouts thus remained unknown to the enemy, prolonging the allies’ deception strategies. Patton’s trailer was located in the adjoining orchard. The troops of the Third Army were bivvied in woods on the other side of the rail line a mile to the east.