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PATTON

... PATTON. TWELVE months ago General George Patton of the American Army was fighting desperately at Bastogne in the bulge created by Rundstedt's breakthrough. To-day he lies dead in hospital in Germany the victim of a motor accident. Tragic end this for ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 424 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

FLAMBOYANT LEADER PASSES General Patton “dies fighting

... FLAMBOYANT LEADER PASSES General Patton “dies fighting /GENERAL PATTON, Commander of the Amerioan 13th Army, paralysed since he received spinal injuries in motor accident on December 9, died late yesterday in hospital at Heidelberg. The commander of ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 711 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LED DASH THROUGH FRANCE COLOURFUL CAREER

... Nary, commander of the U.S. occupation zone. Mrs. Patton was at the bedside of her husband. General Patton, who was born in 1885, was a flamboyant showman, brilliant general, incorrigible hothead and sentimentalist. He began his military career at West ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 207 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

“A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT FIGHTER’’

... history. The world tonight is a poorer place without the fighting heart of George Patton. The British Prime Minister last night sent the following message to Mrs. Patton; “Deeply distressed to learn of. the tragic death of your husband. Please accept ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 211 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

SLAPPED SOLDIER

... exactly week ago to spend Christmas at home. Mrs. Patton has intimated that the General will be buried North-West Europe—probably at some spot connected with the U.S. Third Army, uch as St. Lo. Mrs. Patton has received messages of sympathy from President ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 186 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

A poet

... character. Duriuir Patton’s four years as Chief of Cavalry in Washington lit* was to the visiting Prince-of Wales, and taught the young Prince how to play the game of Craps (dice) in Army style. Besides being an expert tanks, Patton was an authority on ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 267 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AROUND A:

... says: “Hence life comes forth.” The seal, by the way, was issued in the reign of George 111. General Patton The announcement of the death of General Patton recalls the fact that he visited American troops Ulster several months before ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 305 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

D ABOUT::

... at a critical period in the war. Many people in Ulster, and particularly in the Armagh district, were aware, however, that Patton had been here. On another occasion he was reported to have revealed that the riding breeches which he was wont to wear during ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 102 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Table Tennis Notes. Reverse for Brookva le

... together for the first time since 1941. made no mistake against the Cllltonville pair. Z. Watson and D Patton. Well matched In craft. Doreen Patton and ?10. Boyle fought a point-forpoint battle in the second set of their singles. The former. who took ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Ireland's Saturday Night
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 621 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MEN KILLED IN BATAVIA AMBUSH

... MEN KILLED IN BATAVIA AMBUSH GEN. PATTON DIES IN HOSPITAL. GREAT TANK CHIEF BURIAL IN EUROPE. General George Patton, who commanded the U.S. 3rd Army in Europe during the war, died in a military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany, on Friday evening, from ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 2642 | Page: 3 | Tags: none