Aide-de-camp to General George S. Patton. He was killed along with two others in an air raid four miles east of El Guettar. The attack narrowly missed General Omar N. Bradley.
He was originally buried in the town cemetery along with 20 other soldiers. They were buried on mattresses because there was no wood to make coffins.
He was from Pasadena, California and is said to have been General Patton's favorite aide. According to his diary, Gen. Patton clipped off a lock of Maj. Jenson's hair to send home to his mother. He wrote "He was a fine young man and officer. He had no vices. I can't see the reason that such fine young men get killed. I shall miss him a lot."
Patton told reporters "Captain Jenson . . . had volunteered to go to the front as an additional officer in our tank force on the Gabes road. When Stukas came over this morning he was standing only a few feet from one of our generals [Omar Bradley]. Both dived into slit trenches. A heavy bomb landed almost at the edge of the one in which Jenson lay. He was killed instantly . . ." (Time, April 12, 1943)
He was originally buried in the town cemetery along with 20 other soldiers. They were buried on mattresses because there was no wood to make coffins.
He was from Pasadena, California and is said to have been General Patton's favorite aide. According to his diary, Gen. Patton clipped off a lock of Maj. Jenson's hair to send home to his mother. He wrote "He was a fine young man and officer. He had no vices. I can't see the reason that such fine young men get killed. I shall miss him a lot."
Patton told reporters "Captain Jenson . . . had volunteered to go to the front as an additional officer in our tank force on the Gabes road. When Stukas came over this morning he was standing only a few feet from one of our generals [Omar Bradley]. Both dived into slit trenches. A heavy bomb landed almost at the edge of the one in which Jenson lay. He was killed instantly . . ." (Time, April 12, 1943)
Aide-de-camp to General George S. Patton. He was killed along with two others in an air raid four miles east of El Guettar. The attack narrowly missed General Omar N. Bradley.
He was originally buried in the town cemetery along with 20 other soldiers. They were buried on mattresses because there was no wood to make coffins.
He was from Pasadena, California and is said to have been General Patton's favorite aide. According to his diary, Gen. Patton clipped off a lock of Maj. Jenson's hair to send home to his mother. He wrote "He was a fine young man and officer. He had no vices. I can't see the reason that such fine young men get killed. I shall miss him a lot."
Patton told reporters "Captain Jenson . . . had volunteered to go to the front as an additional officer in our tank force on the Gabes road. When Stukas came over this morning he was standing only a few feet from one of our generals [Omar Bradley]. Both dived into slit trenches. A heavy bomb landed almost at the edge of the one in which Jenson lay. He was killed instantly . . ." (Time, April 12, 1943)
He was originally buried in the town cemetery along with 20 other soldiers. They were buried on mattresses because there was no wood to make coffins.
He was from Pasadena, California and is said to have been General Patton's favorite aide. According to his diary, Gen. Patton clipped off a lock of Maj. Jenson's hair to send home to his mother. He wrote "He was a fine young man and officer. He had no vices. I can't see the reason that such fine young men get killed. I shall miss him a lot."
Patton told reporters "Captain Jenson . . . had volunteered to go to the front as an additional officer in our tank force on the Gabes road. When Stukas came over this morning he was standing only a few feet from one of our generals [Omar Bradley]. Both dived into slit trenches. A heavy bomb landed almost at the edge of the one in which Jenson lay. He was killed instantly . . ." (Time, April 12, 1943)
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