LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
November 5, 1953
ROBERT J. PATTON
---Mr. and Mrs. Jess Patton received word by telegram Monday night of the death of their son, Airman 2-C Robert J. Patton, 20, who was killed the previous evening while on duty with the Air Corps in the Philippine Islands. He lacked only a month completing his four year enlistment.
---The telegram contained no details other that that "he was struck near the heart with an unknown object. The cause surrounding the accident were not reported." The telegram said a letter would follow giving more information and the date of arrival of the body back to the states.
---The death of young Patton, unusual in view of its occurrence in a "quiet" part of the world, may be explained by the fact that Patton was a military policeman.
---Robert Patton attended Oklahoma school near La Plata and the local high school for three years.
---He was the youngest of seven boys in the Patton family and one of four with a service record. One boy, Lonnie, is serving in Korea.
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The following was sent to me by FAG contributor, Darrell Hisey: "I was stationed with Patton while we were at Clark Air Force Base Philippine Islands. There was a night time curfew and GI's who had been in town all crowded into buses returning them to the main gate. The night Patton was killed there were blacks and whites fighting at the bus stop. Myself and several other off duty Air Police were present during the altercation. It [his death] had nothing to do with the fact that Patton was an Air Policeman. Some of us that were present but not involved in the fracus felt that someone threw a rock that hit Patton in the chest resulting in his death. The Provost Marshall ?? had hearings after his death but insofar as I recall no one was ever identified as the rock thrower."
November 5, 1953
ROBERT J. PATTON
---Mr. and Mrs. Jess Patton received word by telegram Monday night of the death of their son, Airman 2-C Robert J. Patton, 20, who was killed the previous evening while on duty with the Air Corps in the Philippine Islands. He lacked only a month completing his four year enlistment.
---The telegram contained no details other that that "he was struck near the heart with an unknown object. The cause surrounding the accident were not reported." The telegram said a letter would follow giving more information and the date of arrival of the body back to the states.
---The death of young Patton, unusual in view of its occurrence in a "quiet" part of the world, may be explained by the fact that Patton was a military policeman.
---Robert Patton attended Oklahoma school near La Plata and the local high school for three years.
---He was the youngest of seven boys in the Patton family and one of four with a service record. One boy, Lonnie, is serving in Korea.
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The following was sent to me by FAG contributor, Darrell Hisey: "I was stationed with Patton while we were at Clark Air Force Base Philippine Islands. There was a night time curfew and GI's who had been in town all crowded into buses returning them to the main gate. The night Patton was killed there were blacks and whites fighting at the bus stop. Myself and several other off duty Air Police were present during the altercation. It [his death] had nothing to do with the fact that Patton was an Air Policeman. Some of us that were present but not involved in the fracus felt that someone threw a rock that hit Patton in the chest resulting in his death. The Provost Marshall ?? had hearings after his death but insofar as I recall no one was ever identified as the rock thrower."
LA PLATA HOME PRESS, La Plata, Missouri
November 5, 1953
ROBERT J. PATTON
---Mr. and Mrs. Jess Patton received word by telegram Monday night of the death of their son, Airman 2-C Robert J. Patton, 20, who was killed the previous evening while on duty with the Air Corps in the Philippine Islands. He lacked only a month completing his four year enlistment.
---The telegram contained no details other that that "he was struck near the heart with an unknown object. The cause surrounding the accident were not reported." The telegram said a letter would follow giving more information and the date of arrival of the body back to the states.
---The death of young Patton, unusual in view of its occurrence in a "quiet" part of the world, may be explained by the fact that Patton was a military policeman.
---Robert Patton attended Oklahoma school near La Plata and the local high school for three years.
---He was the youngest of seven boys in the Patton family and one of four with a service record. One boy, Lonnie, is serving in Korea.
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The following was sent to me by FAG contributor, Darrell Hisey: "I was stationed with Patton while we were at Clark Air Force Base Philippine Islands. There was a night time curfew and GI's who had been in town all crowded into buses returning them to the main gate. The night Patton was killed there were blacks and whites fighting at the bus stop. Myself and several other off duty Air Police were present during the altercation. It [his death] had nothing to do with the fact that Patton was an Air Policeman. Some of us that were present but not involved in the fracus felt that someone threw a rock that hit Patton in the chest resulting in his death. The Provost Marshall ?? had hearings after his death but insofar as I recall no one was ever identified as the rock thrower."
November 5, 1953
ROBERT J. PATTON
---Mr. and Mrs. Jess Patton received word by telegram Monday night of the death of their son, Airman 2-C Robert J. Patton, 20, who was killed the previous evening while on duty with the Air Corps in the Philippine Islands. He lacked only a month completing his four year enlistment.
---The telegram contained no details other that that "he was struck near the heart with an unknown object. The cause surrounding the accident were not reported." The telegram said a letter would follow giving more information and the date of arrival of the body back to the states.
---The death of young Patton, unusual in view of its occurrence in a "quiet" part of the world, may be explained by the fact that Patton was a military policeman.
---Robert Patton attended Oklahoma school near La Plata and the local high school for three years.
---He was the youngest of seven boys in the Patton family and one of four with a service record. One boy, Lonnie, is serving in Korea.
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The following was sent to me by FAG contributor, Darrell Hisey: "I was stationed with Patton while we were at Clark Air Force Base Philippine Islands. There was a night time curfew and GI's who had been in town all crowded into buses returning them to the main gate. The night Patton was killed there were blacks and whites fighting at the bus stop. Myself and several other off duty Air Police were present during the altercation. It [his death] had nothing to do with the fact that Patton was an Air Policeman. Some of us that were present but not involved in the fracus felt that someone threw a rock that hit Patton in the chest resulting in his death. The Provost Marshall ?? had hearings after his death but insofar as I recall no one was ever identified as the rock thrower."
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