Letters
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On June 6, 1944, as the cross-channel invasion of France was underway, all five members of the Patton family sat huddled around the radio. The Pattons’ eldest daughter Bee listened in Washington, hoping “dad is on the way to get Johnny [her husband] out of prison camp,” while her sister and mother listened at the
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Beatrice was one of the few people privy to both the public and the private Patton, two sides which were very hard to reconcile for outsiders. George spent his entire life hidden behind a mask defined by many as “Old Blood and Guts”, but with his wife he could be himself: hunting in the countryside
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George Patton considered himself to “have a hell of a memory for poetry and war.” He liked to pick up the pen and write poetry to inspire himself during war, while Beatrice tried to get his work published.
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