American Military News by Kyle Perisic 12/25/2019
A months-long campaign to win World War II was temporarily paused in early December 1944 when heavy rains prevented Gen. George S. Patton’s men in the United States 3rd Army from receiving much-needed air supplies. They were cold, stuck and in desperate need of supplies.
At the footstep of Germany, on Dec. 8, 1944, Gen. Patton turned to God for help — something not one of the other four American commanders in the European theater had done.
Patton, who believed he had a close and personal relationship with God his whole life, asked Chaplain James H. O’Neill if he knew of a “good prayer for the weather,†according to military historian and Patton expert Kevin M. Hymel, as reported by Los Angeles Times.
Despite the uniqueness and unprecedented scale of Gen. Patton’s prayer, it was answered. The weather miraculously cleared and Patton was able to get his troops moving again just before it began to snow. On December 26, 1944, he broke through the German defenses and relieved Bastogne.
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