Darn right they wanted to go West! Matter of fact, Patton wanted to reform the surrendered German soldiers into Allied units and get busy right away fighting the Russians and driving them back to Minsk...or maybe even Moscow. He would have found lots of willing Germans to help in doing that. ;-) But he was jumping the gun a little, and the Allied High Command was not amused. They retired him, to all intents and purposes, and he didn't live long after that (got killed in an auto accident). Patton's problem was, he just couldn't stand peace breaking out, because it left him with nothing to do. The man simply loved fighting battles.