Third United States Army ‘Season’s Greetings’ Christmas card, circa 1944, featuring an image of an American tank rolling toward Berlin, measuring 5.25 x 4, inscribed inside in Patton’s hand, “Merry Christmas to Mary Jane.” In fine condition, with light creases. Accompanied by a Third Army insignia shoulder patch, 2.25″ in diameter, originally kept by the recipient, Mary Jane Krieger, in her scrapbook. Patton kept regular correspondence with Krieger throughout the war, revealing a softer side of the man remembered as a hard-driving, unrelenting military hero—one of the last four letters he ever wrote, one year after this one, was to thank her for a book of poems she sent as a Christmas gift. RR Auction COA.
