Killing Patton The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General (50 page)

North Africa

Noville

Nuremberg Trials

October Pause

Office of Strategic Services (OSS)

Ohrdruf

Oldham

101st Airborne Division

Operation Baseplate

Operation Greif

Operation Market Garden

Operation Mickey Mouse

Operation Plunder.
See also
Rhine offensive

Operation Tink

Operation Watch on the Rhine.
See
Battle of the Bulge

Oppenheim

Oppenheimer, Robert

O’Regan, Richard H.

Ott, Mel

Pacific Theater

Palatinate campaign

Paluch, Ted

Paris

parlementaires

Patterson, Robert

Patton, Beatrice

Patton, George S.

auto crash and controversy

Battle of the Bulge

children of

death of

Driant assault

ego of

Eisenhower and

end of combat career

enemies and near-death “coincidences”

four-star rank

Jean Gordon and

as military governor of Bavaria

Montgomery and

at Ohrdruf

Operation Tink

Palatinate campaign

Pearl Harbor predicted by

physical appearance of

relieved of Third Army command

religion of

Rhine offensive

Sicily campaign

slapping incidents

Soviet Union and

speech to Third Army

Spitfire incident

tactical brilliance

Task Force Baum

Truman and

vulgarity of

in World War I

Pearl Harbor

Pearson, Drew

Peiper, Joachim

penicillin

Pershing, John

P-47 Thunderbolts

Phillips, ZeBarney Thorne

Poland

concentration camps

pontoon bridges

Postyshev, Pavel

Potsdam Conference

Prague

press

British

military

Patton and

Soviet

Prettyman, Arthur

prisoners of war

Allied

German

Malmedy Massacre

Soviet

Task Force Baum

women as

Purple Heart

radio

intercepted messages

silence

rape

Rayburn, Sam

Red Army.
See
Soviet army

Red Cross

refugees

Reims

Remagen Bridge

Rhine offensive

Rhine River

Roberts, William

Romania

Romans

Rommel, Erwin

Rommel, Manfred

Roosevelt, Alice

Roosevelt, Anna

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Churchill and

death of

fourth inaugural

Jews and

New Deal

physical ailments

Stalin and

at Yalta

Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy”

Royal Air Force

bombing of Berlin

Spitfire incident

Rutherfurd, Lucy Mercer

Saint-Mihiel

St. Vith

Sardinia

Schroeder, Christa

Schwalm Creek Valley

“Screaming Meemie” rockets

Scruce, Joe

Sedov, Lev

Serbia

Seventh Army

Sicily campaign

Sheridan, Philip

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Sherman tanks

Shoumatoff, Elizabeth

Siberia

Sibret

Sicily

Siegfried Line

Sinatra, Frank

Skorzeny, Otto

Skubik, Stephen

slit latrine

Slovakia

Smith, Walter Bedell

Sobibor

Sochi

Somerville, James

Soviet army

at Auschwitz

Battle of Britain

in Berlin

rape and

Soviet Union

British relations with

Christmas in

communism

expansionism

German invasion of

Katyn massacre

nuclear weapons

Patton and

postwar

U.S. relations with

Speer, Albert

spies

Soviet-U.S. spy war

Spitfire incident

SS (
Shutzstaffel
)

at Auschwitz

Battle of the Bulge

Malmedy Massacre

Panzer divisions

racial purity

Waffen

Stalin, Joseph

Churchill and

health problems

Katyn massacre

Potsdam Conference

reign of terror

Roosevelt and

Sochi villa

Truman and

at Yalta

Stalin, Svetlana

Stalingrad

Stephenson, William

Stimson, Harold

Stone, Harlan

Strassmann, Fritz

Strong, Kenneth

Summersby, Kay

Switzerland

tank corps, U.S.

at Bastogne

Task Force Baum

Team Desobry

Tehran Conference

Tenth Armored Division

Third Army

Battle of the Bulge

Driant assault

Palatinate campaign

Patton’s speech to

Rhine offensive

Task Force Baum

see also specific corps, divisions, and companies

Thompson, John

Thompson, Robert L.

327th Glider Infantry Regiment

Time
magazine

Tommies (British soldiers)

Treblinka

Trier

Trotsky, Leon

Truman, Bess

Truman, Harry S.

becomes president

Patton and

Potsdam Conference

Stalin and

Tunisia

Twelfth Army

Twentieth Amendment

Twentieth Corps

Twenty-Second Amendment

U-boats

United Nations

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army.
See specific armies, corps, divisions, and companies

U.S. Navy

urinating on enemy soil

Verdun

Versailles

Vienna

Villa, Pancho

von Goeckel, Günther

von Paulus, Friedrich

von Rundstedt, Gerd

von Wangenheim, Freiherr

Walker, Walton

Wallace, Henry

Walpole, Horace

War Agencies Appropriations Act (1944)

Warm Springs, Georgia

Warsaw

Washington, DC

Washington, George

Waterloo, Battle of

Waters, Beatrice Patton

Waters, John

Wehrmacht

Battle of Berlin

Battle of the Bulge

deserters

Driant assault

Panzer divisions

Rhine offensive

Welles, Orson

Wenck, Walther

Werbomont

West Point

White House

William the Conqueror

Willkie, Wendell

Wolf’s Lair

Women’s Army Corps

Woodring, Horace

World War I

Wunsch, Franz

Yalta Conference

Yezhov, Nikolai

Yugoslavia

Zborowski, Mark

Zhukov, Georgy K.

Ziegenberg

Zyklon B

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