... 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 ...

... NORMANDY CRAVE LIKELY FOR PATTON Nuremberg. Saturday. Six hundred infantrymen from three divisions of Gen. Patton a Third Army left here to-day. to form a guard of honour for their dead ex-chief. Mrs. Patton. who was at her husband's when he died at ...

... PATTON BURIED AMONG MANY OF HIS MEN • Luxembourg. Monday. With full military honours. General George S. Patton, war-time Commander of the U.S. Third Army., was burled to-day in the American Military Cemetery at Hamm. near Luxembourg. He now lies beneath ...

... 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 ...