PA TTON’S GRAVE AT HAMM

... Third Army Guard SIX hundred infantrymen from three divisions of General Patton’s Third Array left Nuremberg today to form a guard of honour for their dead ex-chief. Mrs. Patton, who was at her husband’s side when he died at Heidelberg last night, 14 ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
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CHALLENGED HOMMEL

... CHALLENGED HOMMEL Leading the Third Army.' ' Patton had the task of counterattacking the southern flank the Ardennes Bulge in December. 1944. It was the Third Army which made a spectacular break-through to the Moselle River in March. 1945. and crumbled ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Bradford Observer
County: Yorkshire, England
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PATTON WENT DOWN FIGHTING

... PATTON WENT DOWN FIGHTING General George (“Blood-and- Guts”) Patton, victor of four breath-taking campaigns in tha second World War, died in hospital on Friday evening at Heidalbcrg—German university . city captured by his Third Army in its last irresistible ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Gloucester Citizen
County: Gloucestershire, England
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battlefield

... battlefield GRAVE For General Patton link WITH ‘PUSH’ NUREMBERG. Saturday. Six hundred infantrymen from three divisions of General Patton’s Third Army left here to-day to form a guard honour for their dead ex-chief. The general is to be buried m the American ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
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PATTON

... 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
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BATTLEFIELD GRAVE

... breakneck expressed at a meeting of the from three divisions of tank drives into the heart of «t es Hartlepool Disablement Genera Patton’s Third Army Germany, he became the most Ssory Committee held at the left here iay to form a guard talker about r^™ng o those ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail
County: Durham, England
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(fourier & Guarbtan Saturday, December 22. 1945. A Fighting General

... December 22. 1945. A Fighting General SOLDIERS judge generals on their personality and on the results they achieve. General Patton was the type from both viewpoints to inspire men. His passing removes a splash of colour from the contemporary military scene ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Halifax Evening Courier
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 474 | 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
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GEN. PATTON TO LIE IN LUXEMBOURG

... GEN. PATTON TO LIE IN LUXEMBOURG FRANKFORT. Saturday. GENERAL Patton is to be buried in the American ' soldiers' cemetery at Hamm in Luxembourg it was authoritatively learned today. It is understood that Mrs Patton and the War Dept. had considered Metz ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 350 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

General Patton

... 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 ...

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
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