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What was George S. Patton's final military command in Germany?

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George S. Patton’s final military command was the Fifteenth U.S. Army, based in Bad Nauheim, Germany.1

Following his removal from command of the Third Army in October 1945 due to controversies regarding his public criticisms of Allied denazification policies, Patton was assigned to lead the Fifteenth Army. This was largely a "paper" army tasked with overseeing the compilation of an official history of the war in Europe. Patton famously described this administrative role as serving as an "undertaker at my own funeral" before he died from injuries sustained in a car accident in December 1945.12