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   General Alexander McCarrell Patch (November 23, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific, and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe .

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   Lieutenant General Alexander McCarrell Patch II died of pneumonia on 21 November 1945 at Brooke General Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, TX. He is buried at the United States Military Academy Post Cemetery in West Point, Orange County, NY, in Section 2.

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   • General Alexander McCarrell Patch (November 23, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was a senior United States Army officer who fought in both world wars, rising to rank of general. During World War II, he commanded U.S. Army and Marine Corps forces during the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific, and the Seventh Army on the Western Front in Europe .

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   Who was General Patch?

   • Fifth Army in Italy, General Patch took over the Seventh Army and all Anvil planning. Born at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, on November 23, 1889, Patch was the son of a cavalry officer and had graduated from West Point (with Patton) in 1913.

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   Who was Lieutenant General Alexander Patch?

   • Little is known about lieutenant-general Alexander Patch. One of his subordinates, general Lucian Truscott, praised Patch as ''a man of outstanding integrity, a courageous and competent leader, and an unselfish comrade-in-arms''. Patch avoided rough language and cared for his men.

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   When did General Patch liberate Dachau concentration camp?

   • Forces under Patches command liberated Dachau concentration camp on 29 April 1945. After driving the Japanese out of Guadalcanal in 1943, General Patch commanded US Seventh Army from the landings of Operation Dragoon in August 1944 to the surrender of German 19th Army on May 5, 1945.

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   Alexander M. Patch. After driving the Japanese out of Guadalcanal in 1943, General Patch commanded US Seventh Army from the landings of Operation Dragoon in August 1944 to the surrender of German 19th Army on May 5, 1945. He liberated the Alsace region with French general De Lattre and the Dachau concentration camp near Munich. Little is known ...

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   Jul 10, 2015 · A former name retained. Alexander McCarrell Patch, Jr., born 23 November 1889 at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., graduated from the U.S. Military Academy 12 June 1913 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Infantry. Prior to World War I, he served in Texas and Arizona; and from June 1917 until May 1919 he joined the 18th Infantry in France participating in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihel, and Meuse ...

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   Aug 7, 2018 · Returning home to head the Desert Training Center in 1943, the fifty-four-year-old Patch was personally selected by General George C. Marshal, the army chief of staff, to command the Anvil operation, with the approval and support of Lieutenant General Jacob L. Devers, the deputy Mediterranean theater commander.

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   Alexander Patch was an army brat who attended Lehigh University for a year before attending West Point (class of 1913.) He participated in the Punitive Expedition in Mexico and saw front-line service in the First World War, directing the Army Machine Gun School and participating in the battles of Aisne-Marne, Saint-Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne.

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   Aug 23, 2017 · A favorite of Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, Sandy Patch was the only American general to have commanded in both the Pacific and European theaters. Patch and his Seventh Army had beaten Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s Third Army to the Rhine. Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower offered Patch his own B-25 and pilot in the spring ...