Overrated events/persons in history?

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Originally Posted by ikalugin

Patton?

I'm sure that charge could be leveled against Patton in many ways, but in the pantheon of US WW2 generals, Douglas MacArthur is far more richly deserving. The man presides over a disaster in the Philippines much of it his own making, is plucked from the middle of it as his command crumbles and made a national hero over night. Go figure. General Dmitry Pavlov of the Soviet Western Front should have been so lucky.