Operation Undertone
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Operation Undertone, also known as the Saar-Palatinate Offensive, was a large assault by the U.S. Seventh, Third, and French First Armies of the Sixth and Twelfth Army Groups as part of the Allied inv
General Jacob Devers
SS General Paul Hausser
Ruins of a bunker in the Bienwald
Alexander Patch
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Alexander McCarrell Patch 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 t
LTG Patch, new commander of Fourth Army, August 1945
Senior officers aboard USS Catoctin (AGC-5), operation flagship, en route to the invasion area on 14 August 1944. Left to right: Brigadier General Gordon P. Saville, Air Commander; Lieutenant General Alexander Patch, Army Commander; Vice Admiral Kent Hewitt, Naval Commander; James Forrestal, Secretary of the Navy; Rear Admiral André Lemonnier, Chief of Staff of the French Navy
Three lieutenant generals in October 1944: Lucian Truscott, Alexander Patch, and Jacob L. Devers
Lieutenant Generals Jacob L. Devers and Alexander Patch at Lunéville, France, January 1945