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23 unusual facts about George S. Patton


1943 in organized crime

As General Patton's Third Division moved onward the signs of its dependence on Mafia support were obvious to the local population.

Bastogne

Bastogne is also where ends the Liberty Road (France) which marks the victorious route of the Allied forces and of George S. Patton's Third Army.

Battle of Opequon

His grandson and namesake would become the famous U.S. general of World War II, George S. Patton, Jr.

Battle of Scary Creek

Captain George S. Patton, the grandfather of the famous George S. Patton of World War II, commanded the Confederate line behind Scary Creek, several miles from the main Confederate camp.

Chicken curry

In 1940, Mrs. W.L. Bullard from Warm Springs, Georgia served this dish under the name "Country Captain" to Franklin D. Roosevelt (the 32nd president of the United States of America) and to General George S. Patton (a distinguished U.S. Army General).

Hamm, Luxembourg

It is the home of the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial, the final resting place of 5,076 American servicemen, including General Patton.

Hans Cramer

During his repatriation journey, he was allowed to see Montgomery's 21st Army Group preparing for the invasion of Europe, but was told he was in Kent, where Patton's mythical 1st U.S. Army Group was preparing for its invasion.

Harbor City, Los Angeles

George S. Patton Continuation School, LAUSD, 24514 South Western Avenue

Harold W. Rood

Rood was an infantryman in George S. Patton's Third Army in World War II and took part in the Rhineland and Central Europe campaigns.

Honey Craven

Before and during his horse-show jobs, he worked in Boston, Massachusetts for the London Harness Shop, selling saddles to Gen. George S. Patton and playing coachman for the Vanderbilts and other society families.

Israel Tal

Israel Tal's picture appears in the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor's "Wall of Greatest Armor Commanders" along with compatriot Moshe Peled, Americans George S. Patton and Creighton Abrams and German field-marshal Erwin Rommel.

James Wendell

A teammate of his on the 1912 Olympic Team, General George S. Patton, later sent his son to The Hill while Wendell was headmaster.

Loren L. Ryder

During World War II, General George S. Patton called upon Ryder's audio expertise to help disguise the sounds of American tanks at the Battle of the Bulge.

Lower Peover

Lower Peover was also where George S. Patton held meetings with the senior members of the British war cabinet where the discussed plans about many military operations, most notably D-day.

Luke Patten

An Illawarra junior, Patten acquired the nickname General because of his surname's similarity to that of General Patton.

M47 Patton

The M47 Patton is an American tank, the second tank to be named after General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army during World War II and one of the earliest American advocates of tanks in battle.

Order of the White Lion

Dwight Eisenhower and George S. Patton are two Americans who received the Order of the White Lion after the close of World War II.

Otto von Knobelsdorff

During the war, he was defeated by American forces under General George S. Patton at the Battle of Metz.

Peover Hall

During the Second World War the house was requisitioned and used by General George Patton and his staff.

Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet

Oflag IX-C was freed by the Americans of the Third Army (General George S. Patton).

Remington Model 51

General George S. Patton owned a Remington 51 and was thought to favor the weapon.

Rodney Jenkins

Jenkins rode for such owners as General George S. Patton’s niece and sarsaparilla heiress, Theodora Ayer Randolph (Mrs. A.C. Randolph) of Middleburg, Va.

San Germán, Puerto Rico

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, second only to the Medal of Honor, by General George S. Patton, thus becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration.


Battle of Saint-Mihiel

As a result, by September 1918, Colonel George S. Patton Jr. had finished training two tank battalions - 144 French-built Renault FT light tanks organized as the 344th and 345th battalions of the United States Tank Corps - at Langres, France for an upcoming offensive at the St. Mihiel salient.

Black No More

Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George S. Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler).

Charles Pattinson

In 1998, he and fellow producer George Faber set up their own independent production company, Company Pictures.

Chester A. Dolan, Jr.

On November 8, Dolan and his outfit participated in the first Allied invasion of Casablanca along with General George S. Patton's Western Tank Force.

Corporate foresight

To operationalize the need for "peripheral vision", a concept closely linked to corporate foresight George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker propose 24 questions.

Crédit Mobilier of America scandal

In 1872, the House of Representatives submitted the names of nine politicians to the Senate for investigation: Senators William B. Allison (R-IA), James A. Bayard, Jr. (D-DE), George S. Boutwell (R-MA), Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), James Harlan (R-IA), John Logan (R-IL), James W. Patterson (R-NH), and Henry Wilson (R-MA); and Vice President Schuyler Colfax (R-IN).

Czechoslovak War Cross 1939-1945

Several American officers received the award, such as George S. Patton, and the decoration was also bestowed to national heroes, such as the men who had assassinated Reinhard Heydrich.

Edwin S. Porter

He collaborated with several other filmmakers, including George S. Fleming.

Eleanor Flexner

Plays evaluated in American Playwrights are by dramatists Sidney Howard, S.N. Behrman, Maxwell Anderson, Eugene O’Neill, by comedy writer George S. Kaufman (variously collaborating with Marc Connelly, Edna Ferber, Moss Hart, Herman Mankiewicz, Morrie Ryskind, Howard Dietz, Katherine Dayton, and others), and by comedy writers George Kelly, Rachel Crothers, Philip Barry, and Robert E. Sherwood.

François Zourabichvili

A year after Zourabichvili's death both Collège international de philosophie and École normale supérieure organized a colloquium upon Les physiques de la pensée selon François Zourabichvili ("The physics of the thinking according to François Zourabichvili") led by Bruno Clément and Frédéric Worms, and counted with the participation of Pierre Macherey, Pierre-François Moreau, Pierre Zaoui, Paola Marrati, Paul R. Patton, Paolo Godani and Marie-France Badie.

General Greene

George S. Greene (1801–1899), Union general during the American Civil War

George Faber

George S. J. Faber, co-founder of British production company Company Pictures

George Gregory

George S. Gregory (1846–?), Warden of the Borough of Norwalk, Connecticut, 1887–1888

George Myers

George S. Myers (1905–1985), American ichthyologist from Stanford University

George S. Boutwell

As Treasury Secretary, Boutwell's primary achievements were reorganizing and reforming the Treasury Department, improving bookkeeping by customs houses, incorporating the United States Mint into the Treasury and reducing the national debt.

In the Senate, Boutwell served as chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws in the 44th Congress.

George S. Brooks

Brooks was one of a group of 249 American soldiers—both officers and enlisted men—who briefly attended the University of Poitiers as full-time students in 1919 after having fought on the Western Front.

George S. Clinton

He serves as an adviser at the Sundance Institute and currently chairs the Film Scoring Department at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

George S. Mercouris

Mercouris was re-elected to parliament, in September 1932, and made vice-president of the People's Party which he left in November after a disagreement with its leader Panagis Tsaldaris.

George S. Messersmith

While he did not personally interview Albert Einstein, Messersmith cleared the way for the scientist to leave Germany.

He was best known in his day for his controversial decision to issue a visa to Albert Einstein to travel to the United States.

George S. Mickelson Trail

The trail is named after George S. Mickelson, the South Dakota governor who helped spearhead the project.

George S. Stuart

When Stuart moved to Ojai, California in 1959, he opened The Gallery of Historical Figures and began teaching workshops on figural construction, costuming and sculpting faces.

George S. Talbot

George Thomas Surtees Talbot (1875 – 1918) was an English composer and writer.

George Stuart

George S. Stuart (born 1929), American sculptor, raconteur and historian

Greta Nissen

In early 1924, she came as a member of a Danish ballet troupe to New York, where she was soon hired to do a larger dance numbers for George S. Kaufman in the musical Beggar on Horseback.

Joseph Bast

He was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov. Paul E. Patton in 1996, elected a member of the Philadelphia Society in 2002, and elected to the board of directors of the American Conservative Union in 2007.

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Sheridan Whiteside was one of Morrissey's pseudonyms, taken from the protagonist of the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; that character was in turn based on dramatic critic and raconteur Alexander Woollcott.

Laurie L. Patton

Her translation of the Bhagavad Gita in the Penguin Classics Series follows a free verse style constrained by eight line stanzas.

Lee Sexton

In 1999 Kentucky governor Paul Patton presented Lee with the Governor's Award in the Arts.

Namwianga Mission

Namwianga also contains the George Benson Christian College, which trains secondary teachers in the areas of Math-Religious Education or English-Religious Education, and many graduates go on to plant churches around Zambia.

Paul Patton

Paul E. Patton (born 1937), governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky, 1995–2003

Ralph W. Beiting

Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn recognized Father Beiting as an outstanding Kentuckian in 1969, and he was honored in 1996 by Governor Paul Patton for his work in economic development.

Robert H. Johnson

In 1972, he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, which nominated the U.S. Senator George S. McGovern of South Dakota for the U.S. presidency.

Shockoe Hill Cemetery

The cemetery holds the graves of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, attorney John Wickham, Revolutionary War hero Peter Francisco, famed Union spy Elizabeth Van Lew, Virginia Governors William H. Cabell, John Munford Gregory (acting), and John M. Patton (General George S. Patton's great-grandfather), Judge Dabney Carr, United States Senators Powhatan Ellis and Benjamin W. Leigh, and dozens of Confederate soldiers.

The Body in the Seine

What makes The Body in the Seine interesting to collectors of Broadway cast albums is the theatrical performers assembled for the recording, including Alice Pearce, George S. Irving, Barbara Ashley and future U.S. Congressman, Jim Symington.

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

The title of the short is a reference to the 1942 Warner Brothers film version of the 1939 George S. Kaufman Broadway comedy The Man Who Came to Dinner, in which an overbearing house-guest threatens to take over the lives of a small-town family.

Wager Swayne

Robert M. Patton remained the nominal governor during this period but as the local army commander, Swayne controlled the State government.

William A. Massey

He moved to Reno, Nevada and resumed the practice of law, and was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of George S. Nixon by Governor Tasker Oddie.