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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

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
Type: | Words: 421 | Page: 3 | 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

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

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

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

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... lunch the usual formal session was held at Spiridonovskaya Palace the full delegations attending the to A l no IN STATE of Patton since the end war has optimism for future of world so high diplomatic circles Although strict re y on the subjects under ...

Published: Sunday 23 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 1370 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

with his men

... with his men full military honours General George S. Patton, wartime commander of the U.S. Third Army, was buried to-day in the American military cemetery at Hamm, near Luxemburg. He now lies beneath the pale green field of the military cemetery, and ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 191 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

APPEASEMENT

... legion help was shown the fact that during the year 103.975 individual applications for assistance were received. . - General Patton's saddled brown charger was standing near the entrance tf> the cemetery when the cortege passed, with General’s boots mounted ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 740 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Patton at rest

... 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 ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 47 | Page: 4 | Tags: none