Joseph Carlton Petrone (November 30, 1922

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- March 24, 2016

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) was an American Army Colonel and the

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in Geneva.

Personal life

A 1944

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graduate, Petrone served as a lieutenant in George Patton's 3rd Army in the

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. In the United States, Petrone was a White House military aide under

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and assistant military attaché to France. He retired from the army in 1970 having achieved the rank of colonel. Petrone died at his home in Naples. He and his wife Augusta Henderson also lived in

Dublin, New Hampshire Dublin is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,532 at the 2020 census. It is home to Dublin School and ''Yankee'' magazine. History In 1749, the Masonian proprietors granted the town as "Monadnock No. ...

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