On this day in 1943 U.S. General George S. Patton and his 7th Army arrived in Messina several hours ahead of British Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery and his 8th Army, winning the ‘Race To Messina” and completing the Allied conquest of Sicily.
attached is a story on the war in Sicily.
http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii-general-george-s-pattons-race-to-capture-messina.htm
below- Bernard Montgomery the great British Field Marshall.
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slicethelife 
They don’t make em like that anymore :).
no they do not. both effective leaders, but i think i would take patton by a decent margin.