He was the exact inverse of Monty. Patton was the master of dynamic warfare, but had a really poor record on set piece battles.
Montgomery was really good on set piece battles, but couldn’t manage a dynamic situation.
It would have been interesting, for example, to see what Patton could have done with Market Garden when the intelligence proved faulty.
Market Garden was a disaster. Allied intelligence knew there were two Waffen SS panzer divisions in the area, members of the Dutch underground had been risking their lives to pass that info along to them. In the end it was the Dutch people who paid the price for Montys hubris. Hundreds of Dutch civilians were hauled off to concentration camps and the Germans blockaded Holland and thousands more Dutch civilians died in what they called “The Starvation Winter’’. I knew American veterans of the ETO who hated Montgomery. One vet once told me “I’d have shot that Limey son of a b!tch quicker then I’d have shot Hitler’’.
Patton just wanted to get to Berlin ASAP, and shoot that paper-hanging son of a bitch, himself.
He would have done it, if they’d let him. But that piece of real estate was reserved for the Russians.