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conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about Tank, Royal, Regiment with the genre: Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People?
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conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Patton's Third Army at War'
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conversations.value: Give me the first paragraph for this book.
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conversations.value: Patton's Third Army at War
  When April 1945 began Third Army armored spearheads were bursting out from positions 60 miles east of the Rhine, and by the end of the month the enemy were on their last legs, unable to offer any properly organized resistance. Their tanks were almost all destroyed or captured, their replacement system broken down, and their communications shattered. Complete collapse was not far off, as Third Army continued its drive deep into the Fatherland.
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conversations.value: Give me five more paragraphs.
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conversations.value: About the middle of the month orders were received to shift Third Army's direction of advance to the southeast, into Bavaria, in order to attack the German-Austrian "National Redoubt" area. This change of direction was an enormous undertaking which can be likened to what happened during the Battle of the Bulge. Once again it was achieved without a hitch. On April 21 the campaign to cross the Danube, enter Czechoslovakia and Austria began. Enemy resistance was encountered at Neumarkt, Regensburg, and on the Altmuhl, Danube, and Isar rivers. On April 26 they captured a field order from the German First Army, which disclosed that the enemy intended to attack Third Army's open left flank with the 11th Panzer Division. The attack did not materialize, however, and the complete panzer division later surrendered en masse.
  By the end of the month armored units of XII Corps were 15 miles inside Austria and enemy resistance had all but completely collapsed. The first eight days of May saw the end of the German war machine. Third Army had split the Reich in half, its armored spearheads were at the Czech border, across the Danube, Isar, and Inn rivers and deep into Austria. Once higher headquarters lifted their restraining orders Third Army was able to plunge ahead into Czechoslovakia and to capture Pilsen. They were also able to blast into the "National Redoubt" area so swiftly that even if the Germans had wanted to make a last stand there they just weren't given the opportunity!
  During this final sweep through Germany the biggest treasure trove of the war was accidentally discovered by XII Corps in a small village called Merkers, northeast of Fulda, as the XII Corps history relates:
  The Corps history goes on to amplify the fascinating story, which was copied from a wartime magazine, with the following footnote:
  Other dramatic discoveries made in the closing days of the war were such stark evidence of Nazi brutality as to make the average GI almost doubt his own eyes, First were the emaciated survivors of the infamous death marches, when the SS moved prisoners away from the advancing Allies. The XII Corps history tells the dreadful story thus:
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conversations.value: Give me the last three paragraphs.. Start with the sentence 'At noon on October 7, 1945 the transfer of command ceremony took place in which Gen Patton handed over to Gen Lucian K'.
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conversations.value: At noon on October 7, 1945 the transfer of command ceremony took place in which Gen Patton handed over to Gen Lucian K. Truscott. It was a simple ceremony and Patton made a short speech:
  On December 9, 1945 Gen Patton was traveling in his car along the Frankfurt- Mannheim road with his Chief of Staff Maj-Gen "Hap" Gay. The car was a 1939 Cadillac, driven by Pfc Horace L. Woodring. Shortly before midday they were in collision with a big truck belonging to a quartermaster corps unit. The front of the car was smashed but Gay, Woodring, and the driver of the truck were unhurt. Patton, however, had been thrown forward and then hurled back. He was bleeding from cuts on his head and appeared to be paralyzed. He was driven to the 130th Station Hospital at Heidelberg, which was commanded by an old friend, Gen Geoffrey Keyes. There he was taken to surgery where it was discovered that he had broken his neck and was paralysed from the neck downwards.
  Mrs Patton arrived during the afternoon of December 11 and by the 13th Gen Patton had shown such improvement that his doctors began to consider the possibility of flying him back to the States. But it was not to be. On the 19th a crisis suddenly developed, he had great difficulty in breathing and the pressure on his spinal cord increased. For two days he struggled for survival, but at 5.50pm on December 21 he died of acute heart failure having confided to his brother-in-law that "this is a hell of a way for a soldier to die."