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... 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

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

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

eneral Patton Great ighter and eader general George S. Patton, > achieved fame as the of the U.S. Thii-d Army,

... eneral Patton Great ighter and eader general George S. Patton, > achieved fame as the of the U.S. Thii-d Army, late yesterday afternoon Heidelberg of complaint it supervened a few days ago his illness arising from the Uries he received when a car which ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 364 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 1945 General Pattons Last Journey Gen. Patton was buried on Christmas Eve in simple ..

... THURSDAY, DECEMBER, 1945 General Pattons Last Journey Gen. Patton was buried on Christmas Eve in simple military grave in a U.S. war cemetery at Hamm, Luxemburg, on a bare hillside across which he swung his armoured forces north to stop the German br ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 83 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

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

Dr. Otto Neurath

... Oxford. His war work included co-operation in the Ministry of Information film “World of Plenty.” BURIAL OF GENERAL PATTON General Patton was buried on Monday in the United States military cemetery at Hamm, threeand-a-half miles out of Luxembourg. He lies ...

Published: Thursday 27 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 207 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CLOSED DECEMBER 25. 26 and 27. U.S. Forces’ Menu

... P. says) because Mrs. Patton and the military authorities felt that General Patton would have wanted to remain with his troops of the Third Army, many of whom are buried there. plain wooden cross bearing the words “George Patton, junior” on a small steel ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 603 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

EDITION ANSLOWS

... for Antiques, J)criod furniture, Artistic Tioveliics HIGH ST,, COVENTRY Coventry 302 i PATTON AT REST WITH HIS MEN full military honours » General George S. Patton, war-time commander of the U.S. Third Armv was buried to-day in the American military cemetery ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 134 | 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

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