PATTON: A BIOGRAPHY (28 page)

12.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, August 11, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
320.

13.    British officer quoted in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
323.

14.    Patton, comment to Arvin H. Brown (Patton’s cousin), and Patton, Seventh Army General Orders 18, August 22, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
328 and 334.

15.    Patton, Seventh Army General Orders 18, August 22, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
334.

Chapter 9

1.    Roosevelt, Alexander, Marshall, and Montgomery quoted in Martin Blumen-son, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo,

1996), 326-27.

2.    Patton, diary, August 2, 1943, August 10, 1943, and August 6, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
311, 318, and 315.

3.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, August 18, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
325.

4.    Lt. Col. Perrin H. Long, Medical Corps, letter to The Surgeon, NATOUSA, August 16, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
330-31; Patton, diary, August 3, 1943, quoted in Carlo D’Este,
Patton: A Genius for War
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 533.

5.    Charles H. Kuhl quoted in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
336-37.

6.    Patton, memorandum, August 5, 1943, quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
533.

7.    Lt. Col. Perrin H. Long, Medical Corps, letter to The Surgeon, NATOUSA, August 16, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
331-32.

8.    Patton’s remarks after the incident are quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
534.

9.    Patton, diary, August 20, 1943, and Eisenhower, letter to Patton, August 17, 1943, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
332 and 329.

10.    Patton, diary, August 20, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945, 
332; Patton’s comment on his motive and Patton’s remarks to assembled troops quoted in Martin Blumenson,
Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
(New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1985), 213.

Chapter 10

1.    Patton, letters to Beatrice, February 9, 1944, and March 6, 1944, in Martin Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo, 1996), 413 and 421.

2.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, February 3, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
411.

3.    Patton, letter of instruction to officers, March 6, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
423.

4.    Patton, letter of instruction to officers, March 6, 1944, and letter of instruction to officers, April 3, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
424 and 432-34.

5.    Patton, letter of instruction to officers, March 6, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
424.

6.    Patton, letter of instruction to officers, March 6, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
424.

7.    Third Army soldier quoted in Martin Blumenson,
Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
(New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1985), 220.

8.    Patton’s address quoted in Blumenson,
Patton,
220-21.

9.    Patton, remarks to the Knutsford Welcome Club, April 25, 1944, in Blumen-son, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
440-41.

10.    Marshall, cable to Eisenhower, quoted in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
446.

11.    Carlo D’Este,
Eisenhower: A Soldier’s Life
(New York: Henry Holt, 2002), 508.

12.    D’Este,
Eisenhower,
509.

13.    Patton, speech, quoted in Blumenson,
Patton,
228.

14.    See Carlo D’Este,
Patton: A Genius for War
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 744. The truth about Patton and Jean Gordon will probably never be known for certain. What is certain is that early in January 1946, weeks after her husband died, Beatrice Patton confronted Jean Gordon in a meeting she arranged at a Boston hotel. Beatrice fixed her eyes on Jean, leveled a finger at her, and recited a curse she had picked up in Hawaii: “May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals and may your bones rot joint by little joint” (D’Este,
Patton,
806).

No one knows what else the two women said to one another, but on January 8, 1946, a few days after the meeting, Jean Gordon, not yet 31, put her head in the oven at a friend’s New York City apartment and turned on the gas.

15.    D’Este,
Patton,
613-14.

16.    Patton’s plea to Bradley, quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
616; Patton, letter to Beatrice, July 22, 1944, quoted in Blumenson,
Patton,
486; Patton’s criticism of Bradley, Hodges, and Eisenhower cited in Blumenson,
Patton,
228.

Chapter 11

1.    Patton, diary, August 15, 1944, in Martin Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo, 1996), 511.

2.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, August 16, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
512.

3.    Patton, diary, August 30, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
531.

4.    Patton, diary, September 1, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
533.

5.    Transcript of Patton press conference, September 7, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
540.

6.    Patton, diary, November 24, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
582.

Chapter 12

1.    Dwight David Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe,
reprint ed. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 350.

2.    Patton’s account of the meeting is excerpted in Martin Blumenson, ed.,
The 
Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo, 1996), 599.

3.    Carlo D’Este,
Patton: A Genius for War
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 680.

4. Patton quoted in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
600.

5. George S. Patton Jr.,
War as I Knew It,
reprint ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), 197.

6.    Quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
681.

7.    The prayer and Christmas message are quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
685-86, as is Chaplain O’Neill’s account, “The Story Behind Patton’s Prayer.”

8.    Patton, diary, December 25 and 26, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
606-607.

9.    O’Neill, “The Story Behind Patton’s Prayer,” quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
688.

10.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, December 29, 1944, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
608.

11.    Patton, diary, February 5, 1945, and letter to Beatrice, February 4, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
635 and 634.

1.    Patton, letter to son George, January 16, 1945, and Patton, press conference, January 1, 1945, in Martin Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo, 1996), 625 and 612.

2.    Patton, diary, February 26, 1945, quoted in Carlo D’Este,
Patton: A Genius for War
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 706.

3.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, February 14, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
638,

4.    Patton, diary, February 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
634.

5.    Harry Semmes,
Portrait of Patton
(New York: Paperback Library, 1970), 240.

6.    Patton, Third Army General Orders 70, March 23, 1945, in Blumenson, ed., 
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
660-61.

7.    Patton, diary, March 24, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
661.

8.    Omar N. Bradley,
A Soldier's Story
(New York: Henry Holt, 1951), 542-43.

9.    Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981), 45.

10.    Farago,
Last Days of Patton,
46.

11.    George S. Patton Jr.,
War as I Knew It,
reprint ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995), 292.

12.    Patton,
War as I Knew It,
293.

13.    Robert Murphy,
Diplomat among Warriors
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 255.

14.    Patton, diary, April 12, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
685.

15.    Martin Blumenson,
Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945
(New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1985), 265.

16.    Patton, press conference, May 8, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
700; Larry G. Newman, “Gen. Patton’s Premonition,”
American Legion Magazine
(July 1962), quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
734.

17.    Patton, speech in Boston, June 7, 1945, quoted in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
721.

18.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, August 10, 1945, and diary, August 10, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
735 and 736.

19.    The press conference was recorded by Robert S. Allen in “The Day Patton Quit,”
Army
(June 1971) and quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
766.

20.    Patton, letter to Beatrice, September 25, 1945, and diary, September 22, 1945, in Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
772-73    and    766.

21.    Patton, speech to officers and men of Third Army, October    7,    1945,    in    Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
792.

22.    Account of Hobart R. Gay, quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
785.

23.    Account of Hobart R. Gay, quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
785.

24.    Patton quoted in Blumenson,
Patton,
292.

25. Farago,
Last Days of Patton,
276-77.

26.    Robert S. Allen,
Lucky Forward
(New York: Vanguard Press, 1964), 401-402.

Chapter 14

1.    Patton, diary, June 8, 1943, in Martin Blumenson, ed.,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945,
reprint ed. (New York: Da Capo, 1996), 263-64.

2.    R. Glen Spurling’s recollections (“The Patton Episode”),    in Carlo    D’Este,
Pat
ton: A Genius for War
(New York: HarperCollins, 1995), 798.

3.    Eric Larabee,
Commander in Chief
(New York: Harper    & Row,    1987), 487; John Ingles is quoted in D’Este,
Patton,
819.

4.    Eisenhower quoted in Bren ton G. Wallace,
Patton and His    Third Army 
(Nashville: The Battery Press, 1981), 206.