I always wondered how Patton and MacArthur would get along in the same theater. I heard they had a chance meeting in WWI but that was about it.
Holy smoke! Never in all these years did I ever think of that! The two most titanic egos in all of U.S. Army generaldom. No wonder they were kept hemispheres apart!
It would have been bad... very bad.
"I always wondered how Patton and MacArthur would get along in the same theater. I heard they had a chance meeting in WWI but that was about it."
They would have killed each other; MacArthur was the consummate strategist and Patton was the consummate knife-fighter.
if you thought the friction between MacArthur and Nimitz was bad, just imagine how much worse it would have been if you added Patton to the mix.