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Major Richard Norman “Dick” Jenson. Aide-de-camp to General George S. Patton. He was killed along with two others in an air raid four miles east of El Guettar. The attack narrowly missed General Omar N. Bradley. He was originally buried in the town cemetery along with 20 other soldiers.
Nov 5, 2019 · Richard Jensen Raised in Pasadena Capt. Richard Jensen, aide and friend to Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton, and who was killed during a dive-bombing attack in Tunisia, lived at 465 S. Grand Ave...
Feb 28, 2019 · He also met Captain Richard “Dick” Jensen, Patton’s aide-de-camp and an avid motorcycle rider. Jensen often checked a motorcycle out of the motor pool and eventually talked Craig into riding with him.
Richard N. Jenson (March 23, 1916 - April 1, 1943) was born in Washington and graduated from South Pasadena High School. During World War II, he was Aide-de-Camp to General George S. Patton and was killed in action in Tunisia.
The faces of General Patton’s Western Task Force: Colonel Hobart “Hap” Gay, Patton’s chief of staff; Patton; Colonel Kent Lambert, chief of operations; Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Keyes, Patton’s deputy commander; and Captain Richard Jensen, Patton’s aide-de-camp.
The second best scene in "Patton," according to General Patton, is the burial scene in a North African military cemetery after his father's young aide, Captain Richard Jensen, is killed. "The way he walked in that scene at the Jensen funeral," General Patton says, "was incredible.
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George Patton's aide Captain Richard Jenson was killed during a German air attack; Patton shed tears over Jenson's body and cut a lock of hair, keeping some of himself and sending the remaining to Jenson's family.
