George C Patton - The Lancet The cemetery belongs to and is gifted to USA by Luxembourg and hence he is buried on American soil. Why does General Patton still lay in Europe? He was no fan of the Atomic Bomb -or perhaps that it was largely a creation of Jewish minds His idea of what war was supposed to be was forever changed by atomic weapons.. His attack based agenda worked.. and yes had he been given sufficient resources, the war would have been much shorter and many lives would have been spared as a result The history of Europe since WWII would have been very different. Politician were scared of him because he spoke the truth! Patton had taken so little interest in the new administration that he did not even recall meeting its Minister President, a Dr. Fritz Schaeffer. Helen, In August of this year, I was at the American cemetery in Luxembourg where General George Payton is buried. George Patton, in full George Smith Patton, Jr., (born November 11, 1885, San Gabriel, California, U.S.died December 21, 1945, Heidelberg, Germany), U.S. Army officer who was an outstanding practitioner of mobile tank warfare in the European and Mediterranean theatres during World War II. George S. Patton, Jr., was buried at 0930 hours on December 24, 1945, among other American soldiers, many of whom had died while under his command. But the end of the war with Japan only added to his low morale; on August 10 he wrote in his diary, Another war has ended and with it my usefulness to the world. Hordes of well-wishers tore up the cemetery grounds making the trek to his grave in the back corner. In December 1944 the Germans launched a massive surprise counterattack in the Ardennes Forest, encircling the U.S. 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, Belgium. After a ceremony at the church, pallbearers placed Pattons casket back onto the half-track for the trip to the train station. In 1968/69 while a young USARMY engineer LT stationed in Kontum Province in the VN Central Highlands, I recall meeting a young armor LT named George Patton. George Smith Patton IV (December 24, 1923 - June 27, 2004) was a major general in the United States Army and the son of World War II General George S. Patton Jr. My soldiers are fighting men and if I dismiss the sewer cleaners and the clerks my soldiers will have to take over those jobs, he reasoned. A Cadillac similar to that in which General George S. Patton was traveling when struck by a waiting 2.5 ton U.S. Army truck. Elizabeth Patton Crockett - Wikipedia I will ALWAYS say and think that he was the greatest General that the 20th century ever seen and I wished they could have unleashed him because the world would look quite different if they did. Truman wrote in his diary, Dont see how a country can produce such men as Robert E. Lee, John J. Pershing, Eisenhower and Bradley and at the same time produce Custers, Pattons and MacArthurs., Patton did not enjoy his time there and on the 21st wrote to Beatrice, We have destroyed what could have been a good race and we [are] about to replace them with Mongolian savages. 43 Facts About General George Patton, The Great American Firebrand You seem to have forgotten that you lost the war! However, Hubert Meyer, the ex-Chief of Staff of the Hitlerjugend, recalled that on the occasion of Pattons visit things had been very different. Just Berlin! Kevin M. Hymel is a historian for the US Army. During his final minutes before he died, he asked a fellow soldier, Davy Crockett, to deliver his . I then said that I should be allowed to continue the command of the Third Army and the government of Bavaria, remembered Patton. But Eisenhowers mind was made up. Patton spent a year at the Virginia Military Institute and then transferred to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he was forced to repeat his plebe (freshman) year because of poor grades. He made emotional speeches in all three places, with 100,000 people, including many Hollywood stars, turning out to hear him in the Los Angeles Coliseum. America and warfare were never the same. Beatrice initially wanted him flown home for burial at West Point but was persuaded that this would be totally inappropriate since no American soldier had, up to that time, been sent home for burial. His personal ambitions, however, had not been achieved. Behind them are Beatrices brother, Frederick Ayer, and Major General Hobart Hap Gay, who was with Patton at the time of his car accident. A 12-man squad raised its rifles, and a three-round volley of salutes echoed into the Luxembourg hills. For General Patton's Family, Recovered Ground The American press had guaranteed him a heros welcome. The Augusta had been the flagship of the Western Task Force in the invasion of Morocco. The other issue is that I got Eisenhower and gave Mark Clark a pass in Italy. Professor of Adolescent Health at the University of Melbourne and the Director of the CAH, as well as Patton's wife. I believe Germany should not be destroyed, but rather rebuilt as a buffer against the real danger which is Bolshevism from Russia., Eisenhower ended the meeting by telling Patton that he felt he should get back to Bad Tlz as quickly as possible and that his personal train was ready to take him at 1900 hours. Patton's final resting place is in Luxembourg American Cemetery in Luxembourg. She shaped the man, fortified the soldier, and created the legend
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