George S Patton Signed Envelope Cut & Unpublished Photos Sent Home to Wife!

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George S Patton Signed Envelope Cut & Unpublished Photos Sent Home to Wife!  Unusual!
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clipped Air Mail envelope cover, measuring 4" x 2 1/4", no place, postmarked May 1, 1944.  Patton's signature is present within the address on the cover, signed as "G S Patton Jr.".  The edges of the envelope have been clipped in places.  Light wear to the corners and edges.  Bold signature by the legendary U.S. Army general.
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atton sent the letter originally contained in this envelope to his wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton (1886-1953).  The Patton Homestead, comprised of the house where the Pattons had lived since 1928, was gifted to the town of Hamilton, Massachusetts in 2012 by Patton's daughter-in-law Joanne Holbrook Patton.
G
eorge Patton, Jr.
(1885-1945) - was a career military officer whose 36 years of military service spanned three military conflicts including both world wars.  Patton sortied against partisans of Pancho Villa in Mexico in 1915-1916, and he was later dispatched to the Western Front as a personal aide to General John "Black Jack" Pershing.  It was during World War II, however, that Patton made his most indelible mark. "Old Blood and Guts" served as an army commander leading Allied expeditions in North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, eastern France, the Benelux Countries, and Germany. Patton died of complications following a car accident in Luxembourg in December 1945.
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atton had received command of the Third Army in late January 1944. The Third Army would see 281 days of active combat between August 1944 and V-E Day.  Third Army troops, which numbered about 250-300,000 men, eventually reclaimed 81,500 square miles of territory including over 12,000 cities and towns from the Nazis.  Conservative estimates of Nazis killed, wounded, or captured by the Third Army exceed 1 million.
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