In 1944, the Third Army's most noted leader was eager to lead the D-Day invasion-but it was not until nearly seven weeks after D-Day that Gen. George S. Patton Jr. finally got his chance to take the Third Army into battle. When he did, he exploited the breakout created by his decoy First Army to begin a ten-month rampage across France, driving through Germany and deep into Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria. The Third Army would not leave Germany until 1947, occupying the American Zone during rebuilding efforts after the war.
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