George S. Patton

George Smith Patton, Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was an American general in World War II who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater and the U.S. Third Army in and after the June 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy.

Two stanzas from his poem "Through a Glass, Darkly" (1922), which are featured in the 1971 movie "Patton", inspired the song "The General" on the Across The Open Sea.