War as I knew it [manuscript], 1947.

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War as I knew it [manuscript], 1947.

Corrected proof of Patton's "War as I Knew It," his autobiographical story of World War II as he experienced it from the African Campaign in World War II to his final press conference September 22, 1945.

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University of Virginia. Library

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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 ...