[Larry Lucido]

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.

[elcid1970]

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!

[Little Ray]

It would have been bad... very bad.

[Wombat101]

"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.

[Tailgunner Joe]

General MacArthur commanded the young Patton when he was a major. They restored order in DC in the 30's when unemployed veterans marched on Washington demanding early war bonuses. Eisenhower was MacArthur's aide at the time.