Records of the U.S. Information Agency. 1900 - 2003. Video Recordings from the "Worldnet Today" Program Series. 1980 - 1994. 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF GENERAL PATTON'S BIRTH - COLLINS/BLUMENSON
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Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945
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George Smith Patton Jr. (November 11, 1885 – December 21, 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the United States Army Central in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known ...
Blumenson, Martin.
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Martin Blumenson (b. Nov. 8, 1918, New York, New York-d. April 15, 2005, Washington, D.C.) was a leading historian of World War II who wrote the Army's official account of the D-Day invasion and was an authority on the life of General George S. Patton. He earned a B.A. and M.A. from Bucknell University and a second M.A. from Harvard. During World War II, he was assigned to a history unit and spent time with Patton's 3rd Army headquarters in Europe. He served more than twenty years as an official...
Collins, James Lawton, 1917-2002
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James Lawton Collins (1917-2002) was born in El Paso, Texas, the son of James Lawton and Virginia Caroline (Stewart) Collins. He graduated from West Point in 1939. In 1943 he married Yolande de Mauduit, and the couple had four children. He was a postgraduate student at the Naval War College in 1948. He earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Virginia in 1951 and continued his studies with postgraduate work at the Armed Forces Staff College in 1955 and the Army War College in 1959. ...
