... 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 ...

... PATTON OF “THE THIRD” IS DEAD General Who Wrote Poetry GENERAL George Patton, former commander of tne United States Third Army, who was injured in a car crash near Heidelberg, Germany, on December 9, died last evening. Mrs. Patton was with him at the ...

... PATTON GETS GI GRAVE Rests Beside Men He Led Into Battle THE funeral tram, carrying the body of General Patton, arrived in Luxembourg during a blinding rainstorm early today, after an all-night trip across countryside liberated by Patton’s Third Army ...

... The Heidelberg Service For General Patton General Patton, fatally injured in a motor-crash at Mannheim, was buried at Hamm, Luxembourg, on Christmas Eve, after a service was held in Christ Church, Heidelberg, the day before. The burial took place in the ...

... PATTON LIES WITH HIS MEN Funeral In Rain Storm CROWD’S VIGIL LUXEMBOURG. Monday. General Patton was buried this morning a grave beside those of many of the men he Jed in battle in the U.S. Army Cemetery at Hamm five miles east of Luxem- bourg. Representatives ...

... BATTLEFIELD GRAVE For General Patton NUREMBERG. Saturday. Six hundred infantrymen from three divisions of General Patton's Third Army‘left here to-day to form guard of honour for their dead ex-chief. The general is to be buried in the American Soldiers' ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Career Nearly Broken There was another story about Patton running the bandit Candelario Cervantes to.earth in a Mexican village. Tired of waiting for the cornered brigand to emerge from hiding. Patton dashed into a house and came out with the bandit’s ...

... Normandy Epic Defying public opinion. General Eisenhower gave Patton charge the United States Third Army in the Normandy break-through of August 194“. His fourth armoured division advanced eighty miles in one day from Piennes to Nantes, and during the ...

... Showman*Soldier Eed-faced Georgie Patton (“Old Blood-and-Guts was an inspiration to ...