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... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 421 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OBITUARY GENERAL PATTON

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 324 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

eneral Patton Great ighter and eader general George S. Patton, > achieved fame as the of the U.S. Thii-d Army,

... eneral Patton Great ighter and eader general George S. Patton, > achieved fame as the of the U.S. Thii-d Army, late yesterday afternoon Heidelberg of complaint it supervened a few days ago his illness arising from the Uries he received when a car which ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRILLIANT FLAMBOYANT, LEADER. HOTHEAD, AND-SENTLMENTALIST

... George Patton.” - Patton ' with toe consent of his wife and the US War Department, is to be buried on the Continent, probably on Monday. Mr. Attlee has sent a 'message of condolence to Mrs Fatten. Hospital Episode Nearly Ended His Career George Patton, blood ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 841 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

A GREAT CO MM AIM) ER

... A GREAT CO AIM) ’V'OBODY could rightly ' describe him as the very Patton of modern Major-Gener&l,” the hard-driving, cavalryman who lik4d to walk about with fancy pistols stuck in his belt. The man who. in the big wheel round the Allied right flank in ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 82 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

n after in Java

... through Kramat. were killed when extremists ambushed their lorry. PATTON WILL REST IN CITY HE STORMED American soldiers' cemetery in Hamm (Luxemburg) will be the last resting place of Gen. Patton, who will be interred on Christmas Eve. it was officially annourtccd ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 731 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

POISONED ARROW MURDER

... City. PATTON’S LAST RESTING PLACE TO BE BURIED IN LUXEMBURG General Patton is to be buried at Ham, Luxemburg, on Monday, after services at Heidelberg to-morrow, and Luxemburg on Monday. Luxemburg has been selected the burial ground, as Mrs. Patton and the ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 676 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CHESHIRE MURDER CHARGE

... was evidence that she had put up a considerable resistance Thy inctuest was adiourned Battlefield Grave for Patton General George Smith. Patton,' Commander of the vic• torious United States Third Army on the Western front, who died in Heidelberg last night ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 409 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

JOYCE EXECUTION FIXED TO DIE ON JANUARY 3

... as a military prisoner. General Patton almost as famous as some of Mr. Churchill’s sayings —in North Africa: “We shall attack and attack until we are exhausted, and then we shall attack again.” Once “ Daredevil ” Patton issued a challenge to Field - Marshal ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 269 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Cheshire Link

... Cheshire Link General Patton. although of an unconventional personality which once or twice led him intotrouble. was a soldier's general and he restored the , personal touch to leadership. Behind his forceful manner was a real concern for the !welfare ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Staffordshire Sentinel
County: Staffordshire, England
Type: | Words: 112 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

AND FRIENDLY”

... little vanities, child dancer admir es herself in a mirror while her companions look on. Battlefield Grave for General Patton GENERAL PATTON to be buried in North-West * Europe, at some spot associated with the exploits the Third Army, such as St. Lo, in Normandy ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1046 | Page: 1 | Tags: none