MILITARY PERSONNEL

Alexander Patch

1889 - 1945

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Alexander McCarrell Patch (23 November 1889 – 21 November 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. With an invasion of Japan still an apparent likelihood, Patch returned to the U.S. in August 1945 to take charge of the Fourth Army headquartered at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Patch has received more than 399,444 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alexander Patch is the 1,877th most popular military personnel, the 8,330th most popular biography from United States and the 138th most popular American Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Alexander Patch ranks 1,877 out of 2,058. Before him are John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, Lyman Lemnitzer, Don Carlos Buell, Andrew Scott Waugh, Stanley A. McChrystal, and Mariya Smirnova. After him are William T. Anderson, Eugene Bullard, Oliver Leese, Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough, Raymond T. Odierno, and Robert L. Eichelberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Alexander Patch ranks 258. Before him are Francis Spellman, Nikolai Aseev, Otto Scheff, Anna Kéthly, Rolf Johnsson, and Hans Walter. After him are Alexia Bryn, Aleksei Dikiy, José María Belauste, Wesley Ruggles, Claude McKay, and Louis Ségura. Among people deceased in 1945, Alexander Patch ranks 325. Before him are Richard Friedrich Johannes Pfeiffer, Kārlis Skalbe, Ferdinand Kiefler, Boris Galerkin, Petar Gabrovski, and Alexey Favorsky. After him are Tom Taylor, Lucille La Verne, Thomas Lewis, Rudolf Lippert, Charles Williams, and Toon Oprinsen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alexander Patch ranks 8,330 out of 20,380. Before him are Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), J. Searle Dawley (1877), Brian Littrell (1975), Bessie Barriscale (1884), Pepper Adams (1930), and Corey Allen (1934). After him are William T. Anderson (1839), William H. Welch (1850), Robert Brandom (1950), Henry J. Kaiser (1882), Sidney Blackmer (1895), and Richard Mulligan (1932).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Alexander Patch ranks 138. Before him are A. P. Hill (1825), Michael Mullen (1946), Theodore Van Kirk (1921), Lyman Lemnitzer (1899), Don Carlos Buell (1818), and Stanley A. McChrystal (1954). After him are William T. Anderson (1839), Eugene Bullard (1895), Raymond T. Odierno (1954), Robert L. Eichelberger (1886), Edmund Kirby Smith (1824), and Chesty Puller (1898).

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