... PATTON It is one of those unhappy ironies of fate that George Patton, 'America’s most successful fighting general, the commander of that brilliant Third Army which made history again and again, should have died in hospital as the result of a car crash ...

... GENERAL PATTON. THE death of General George S. Patton, of the American Army, of which he was a most distinguished member, is a loss not only to his nation, but to the Aiiies as a whole. He was an able soldier, perhaps even a ruthless one by both precept ...

... GENERAL PATTON was there that he issued a signal which—if nothing else did —would have made him famous : shall attack and attack until exhausted —and then we shall attack again. Leading the Third Army. Patton had the task of counterattacking the southern ...

... GENERAL PATTON A MERICAN regret at the untimely death, through accident, of General Patton will be shared by the British people large, although to many his was a legendary figure. Forthright, unconventional, his name was hardly less familiar than that ...

... 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 ...

... General Patton his men. More, he was legendtlamboyant showman, brilliant general, incorrigible hothead and sentimentalist. Born on November 11. 1885. went to West Point, the United States military school, but I was damned dud at mathematics and spelling ...

... sixty. General Patton proved to be one of America’s outstanding exponents of tank warfare. He received the command of the Third Army in August, 1944, and led it to victory in a breathless sweep through Northern France. In 1942, General Patton led the force ...

... PATTON OF “THE THIRD” IS DEAD General Who Wrote Poetry GENERAL George Patton, former commander of tne United States Third Army, who was injured in a car crash near Heidelberg, Germany, on December 9, died last evening. Mrs. Patton was with him at the ...

... GENERAL PATTON DIES PEACEFULLY Spectacular War Record QEN. G. S. PATTON, Bj Commanded’ of the 15th U.S. Army, died peacefully in Heidelberg :4B at 5.50 p.m. yesterday. v ,m Jm Col. John N. Willems, J~’y •” * Chief of Staff of the 7th [4» Army, announced ...

... General Patton North Africa and Sicily, his impetuous temper nearly brought ills great career an unfortunate end. slapped the face of a battle-shocked soldier hospital in Sicily, and the Incident made him very unpopular for time. His friend. General ...

... FOR GEN. PATTON Spectacular Armoured Pushes ...

... officers. After the Luxembourg services. Mrs. Patton and Mr. Ayer will travel to Paris en route for the U.S. by air. The 12 homrary pall bearers at the funeral will include Lieut.-Gen. Truscott. who succeeded Gen. Patton as commander of the Third Army. Lieut ...