Patton takes command

29th July 1944: General George C Patton is impatient to get into the war - and is determined to get his Army moving

‘This dramatic photo series shows the destruction of a Nazi tank that had blocked the advance of our forces through a Normandy village. At top, Bazooka gunners have just fired their projectile, which explodes and envelopes the tank in smoke and flames. In the bottom photo a detachment of infantrymen, under Sgt. James F. Kelly, Boston, Mass., push toward…