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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]
George Smith Patton Jr. was born on 11 November 1885, [1] [2] in the Los Angeles suburb of San Gabriel, California, to George S. Patton and his wife, Ruth Wilson, the daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson, the second mayor of Los Angeles, and Margaret Hereford, a widow from Virginia. [3]
He is the youngest son of George Patton IV [1] and grandson of General George S. Patton. With Jennifer Scruby, he is the co-author of Growing Up Patton: Reflections on Heroes, History and Family Wisdom. [1] [2] Patton married Blair Emily Miller on 15 September 2018. [3]
Patton was the fourth in his line to be named George Smith Patton. His great-grandfather, the first George Smith Patton , was a colonel in the Confederate army during the American Civil War . Commanding a brigade at the Battle of Opequon , also known as the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19, 1864, he was wounded, captured and died.
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Virginia Ann Marie Patton Moss (June 25, 1925 – August 18, 2022) was an American actress. After appearing in several films in the early 1940s, she was cast in her most well-known role as Ruth Dakin Bailey in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In 1949, Patton retired from acting, and her final film credit was The Lucky Stiff (1949).
Queen Camilla is a member of the royal family — and an active grandmother to her 10 grandkids. Camilla shares five grandchildren with her ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. The pair were married ...
Manfred Rommel (24 December 1928 – 7 November 2013) was a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), who served as mayor of Stuttgart from 1974 until 1996.