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Never saw enough of the full actual movie to identify that particular scene, but I do know that it actually happened IRL on account of the documentaries I've seen on television revealing that it was common for George Patton to assault his privates
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for whining too much..or something?🤷♂️
It's the scene where's Patton slaps the soldier in the hospital during the Sicily Campaign, thinking he's a coward, and not suffering from shell shock, which he was, or that he was soon to be sent back to the front (The soldier, in question, is an artilleryman, so, he couldn't stand the explosions caused by the big guns he was involved in.). It's actually the condensing of two scenes where he slapped two soldiers for the same reason and was getting ready to pull a pistol (which is the next part of the scene in the film) to shot the second one, only to be stopped by the doctors. The incidents got him side-lined between the Sicilian Campaign and Normandy and almost ruined his career when the press found out about it. Ike standing by him, knowing that they would need him in the fight in France, saved his military bacon.
Speaking for myself, I know of the movie but have NEVER seen it.. .and that taste sounds like something that , yes, would have gotten his brass in trouble pretty dang quick for such an attitude.. more so when he pulls his gun intending to "shoot the cowards".. and as you said, I'm betting when the press DID get ahold of it.. it was like dangling fresh meat to a pack of hungry wolves.. SHEESH!!
I suggest you either read a modern bio on Patton or his own memoir War As I Knew It. As I'd said, it caused him to be removed from command of the Seventh Army after the conquest of Sicily, and being put on the shelf afterwards. Then, the press got their hands on the story and really put him through the ringer, with calls for his being kicked out of the military since a general officer is not suppose to touch a soldier in that manner.. He was just lucky that Ike went to bat for him, and was the best armor expert in the US Army at the time. Otherwise, his career would have been toast.
Patton... Hilariously, this led to Patton helping to fake out the Germans by commanding a fictional landing force set to cross the channel and invade France at Calais... The Germans refused to believe a Soldier like Patton could actually be fired over an incident like this, and we used that to right royally screw them over...
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