... To Patton OVER 6,000 people, mostly United Slates troops, lined the main streets of Heidelberg yesterday to bid good-bye to General George Patton. From the hillside hospital in which was taken through the University city to lie in State. • died thr body ...

... 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 ...

... Patton at rest r'k^ss. David Niven, one of the first Hollywood actors to enter the war. returned to Hollywood from Britain to heart-warming reception from fellow actors and Goldwyn Studio employees. Niven wept openly studio workers presented Kim with ...

... 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 ...

... Soldiers Escort Patton On His Last HEIDELBERG, Sunday. General patton began his last journey to-day. Under a cloudy sky a two-miles-long funeral procession escorted a flag-draped steel casket on a half-track to the station here, where it was placed aboard ...

... GEN. PATTON'S FUNERAL. Buried Beside His Men THE funeral train carrying the body of Gen.. Patton, who is to be buried in the U.S. Army cemetery at Hamm. arrived in Luxemburg during a blinding rainstorm early to-day, after an all-night trip across countryside ...

... differed from the normal Episcopal service only in the inclusion General Patton's favourite hymn, The Son of God Goes Forth to War. played by request of Mrs Patton. Mrs Patton attended with her brother, Frederick Ayer. of Boston. Mass.; General Joseph ...

... 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 ...