> Funny thing is ,Patton was right about everything. <
Patton was a brilliant general. And he was right about a lot of things. But I have doubts about his desire to take Berlin. His tanks certainly could have beat the Soviets to the city. But the Red Army lost something like 100,000 men killed or badly wounded capturing Berlin.
Not worth that price to us, in IMHO. All it would have done is move the border of West Germany over a little to the east. And actually fight the Red Army? That would have been a bloodbath, even if we won.
Congress and the American people never would have stood for it.
By the time the Soviets had reached the outskirts of Berlin, the western front had collapsed. German troops were trying to find Americans in order to surrender.