George S. Patton died at age 60, the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident several days earlier.
The general's daughter woke up in the United States and saw him standing, in full uniform, at the foot of her bed, where he smiled. His daughter Beatrice received a phone call in which he asked "Little Bee, are you alright?'” An attempt to confirm the call in the morning ended up in the information that no oversees call had been placed.
Such incidents are not uncommon. A fairly large number of people experience post death visitations of people they knew, with it most commonly being the case that they happen very soon after the person's death. Indeed, in ancient times, Jews believed that the spirits of the dead were not aware of their deaths for a three day period, and the Irish custom of a wake stems from a desire to stay awake with the recently departed to help them know that they had died.
Patton was one of the most controversial American generals of the Second World War. A member of the cavalry branch, he's famously recalled as an armor general. Almost all of the really effective armor generals in the U.S. Army from the Second World War were cavalrymen. While now hugely admired, during the war the two slapping incidents he was involved in nearly cost him his career.
Patton, although he died due to an accident, fits into a fairly large collection of senior military officers that died right after the war.
The Battle of Shaobo in China ended in a Communist victory. It was another one of the battles in which Chiang Kai Shek pitted Chinese collaborationist units that had rejoined the Nationalist against the Communists.
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It's now closed.
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