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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

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

BRITAIN MAY FAVOUR RECOGNITION

... occupation will be centred on Cologne and will extend beyond the Rhine.—Exchange. PATTON BURIED WITH HIS MEN IN PLAIN SOLDIER’S GRAVE FREED NATIONS PAY LAST TRIBUTE General Patton was buried to-day in a plain soldier’s grave, beside those of many of the men ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 518 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Great Honour

... that all 300,000 citizens of Luxemburg could join in the mourning. Crowds packed the streets to pay a last tribute as General Patton’s body was taken in cortege to the cemetery. “GOOD RESULTS’’ IN MOSCOW ...

Published: Monday 24 December 1945
Newspaper: Birmingham Mail
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 67 | 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