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Jean Gordon (February 4, 1915 – January 8, 1946) was an American socialite and a Red Cross worker during World War II.A niece by marriage of General George S. Patton, some writers claim she had a long affair with Patton, [2] allegedly beginning years before the war [3] and continuing behind the front lines of wartime Europe. [4]
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II occupied Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II.
Patton's niece Jean Gordon spent some time together with him in London in 1944, and in Bavaria in 1945. Patton repeatedly boasted of his sexual success with Gordon, and his wife and family plainly believed that the two were lovers. Some of his biographers are skeptical. Hirshson said that the relationship was casual. [223]
Jean Gordon (publisher) (died 1985) associate publisher (1952–1985) and owner (1970–1985) of US-based Dance Magazine Jean Gordon (Red Cross) (1915–1946), niece & debated involvement with General George S. Patton in World War II
George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army; Jean Gordon (Red Cross) K. Killing Patton; P. Patton Monument (West Point) Patton Park (Detroit) George Patton IV;
Her brother-in-law was General George S. Patton. In 1900 Louise Raynor Ayer married attorney Donald Gordon. The Gordons had two children; daughter Jean Gordon allegedly had an affair with General Patton and committed suicide shortly after Patton's death, and son Crawford "Crow" Gordon, father of current Governor of Wyoming Mark Gordon, died in ...
Gordon Ramsay believes the idea of a "celebrity chef" is a myth. "The sustainability of lasting as a celebrity chef means you need to be a real chef," he says. (Photo: Getty; designed by Quinn ...
Kathleen Helen Summersby BEM (née MacCarthy-Morrogh; 23 November 1908 – 20 January 1975), known as Kay Summersby, was a member of the British Mechanised Transport Corps during World War II, who served as a chauffeur and later as personal secretary to Dwight D. Eisenhower during his period as Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in command of the Allied forces in north west Europe.