the approach to Newark Airport in Elizabeth, New Jersey; he was age 60. Works In 2012, the University of Tennessee Press published The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War, edited by J. Garry Clifford. In 2014, the University of Tennessee Press published his previously unpublished 1947 memoir Arming the Nation for War, with a foreword by Robert M. Morgenthau, former Manhattan district attorney, and edited by Brian Waddell, associate professor at the University of Connecticut. The World War I Memoirs of Robert P. Patterson: A Captain in the Great War (2012) Arming the Nation for War: Mobilization, Supply, and the American War Effort in World War II (2014) References Sources Eiler, Keith. (1997) Mobilizing America: Robert P. Patterson and the War Effort, 1940-1945. Cornell University Press. External links 1891 births 1952 deaths People from Glens Falls, New York Lawyers from New York City Military personnel from New York (state) United States Army personnel of World War I Union College (New York) alumni Harvard Law School alumni Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York United States district court judges appointed by Herbert Hoover Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States court of appeals judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt 20th-century American judges United States Secretaries of War Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United States) United States Army officers Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1952 Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in the United States Accidental deaths in New Jersey Presidents of the New York City Bar Association Truman administration cabinet members 20th-century American politicians United States Assistant Secretaries of War Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler people