In the WWI scene where Patton was on the back of a tank directing the assault - does anybody know if that was supposed to be a French tank? I didn’t think we even had our own tanks at that point - but I haven’t studied WWI as much as I should.
I don’t think they identified them but they should have been French Renault tanks. They did look right but I am no expert.
Patton did ride the tanks into battle but according to his biography he was sitting on the front of the tanks and running back and forth to communicate as they did not have radios in the tanks.
I think they said Patton had light Italian tanks.
It was NOT the Renault tank which he actually rode to battle. I’m pretty sure it was a 1930s/402 American light tank.