Pat is retired from the Federal government, serving a total of 31 years. A native Georgian, she left in 1971 at the age of 18, enlisting in the U.S. Air Force and worked as a Medical Administrative Specialist for four years during the Vietnam Era. After her enlistment expired, she worked for the federal government and attended Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri, earning a Bachelor of Science Degree with a major in accounting. In her 31-year service with the “Feds,” she has worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District; US Army Audit Agency; US Naval Audit Service; US Marine Corps; and Defense Commissary. As an auditor, she worked at aviation depots, fleet supply centers, tank ranges, warehouses, ships, and at the Pentagon. In the federal civil sector, she worked for the US Justice Department, Transportation and Agriculture. Her interest in European military history began over 14 years ago, reading a second-hand copy of “The Rommel Papers.”

Patricia lives near Quantico Marine Base in Virginia. Her first book is, “BAYERLEIN, from Afrikakorps to Panzer Lehr, the Life of Rommel’s Chief-of-Staff, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein,” Her second book with co-author, Mr. Fritz Dittmar-Bayerlein, the General’s nephew, is “The Private AFRIKAKORPS Photograph Collection of Rommel’s Chief-of-Staff, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein.” Patricia is now working on her third book with co-author, Gary Wilkins, author of “The Collector’s Guide to Cloth Third Reich Military Headgear.” This third book about Bayerlein contains his denazification trial and a Gestapo investigation and provides many new family and wartime photographs generously provided by Mr. Dittmar-Bayerlein and have not previously been published. Her fourth book on General Bayerlein covers the "after action reports" he wrote as a prisoner of war.