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Was Patton killed?
New York Post ^ | December 18, 2010 | ROBERT K. WILCOX

Posted on 12/19/2010 12:17:44 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Sixty-five years ago this month, Gen. George S. Patton Jr., hero of World War II and an outspoken critic of the Soviets, was en route to a Sunday hunting trip, a day before permanently leaving Europe, when he was critically injured in a vehicle accident on a deserted two lane highway near Mannheim, Germany.

A large US army truck that Patton’s driver later said was waiting for them, suddenly — and without signaling — abruptly turned into his limousine’s path, causing a head-on crash. Even though Patton had an aide with him and the driver of the truck had one or two passengers in the cab, no one but Patton was hurt. He suffered a paralyzing broken neck.

Despite it being early on a no-work day, a horde of military personnel, including a brigadier general, quickly arrived at the scene. And although there were facilities in Mannheim, he was taken to a hospital 20 miles away where, when he arrived, the prognosis was bad. They expected him to die.

But the tough general, vowing to go home and tell “block-busting secrets,” rallied. And in a little over a week he was fit enough to be readied for a grueling trans-Atlantic flight home. On the eve of that flight, he had a sudden relapse. Blood embolisms choked his breathing. Within 24 hours he was dead.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: coldwar; communism; conspiracy; eisenhower; fdr; fifthcolumn; generalpatton; georgepatton; georgespattonjr; godsgravesglyphs; patton; truman
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Some here will be interested in this.
1 posted on 12/19/2010 12:17:50 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement

Interesting,I saw something about this back a ways and the presumption then was he was killed by a blow to the neck with a rubber bushing fired at close range.


2 posted on 12/19/2010 12:24:08 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Thanks for posting, I’ve become increasingly interested in Patton’s death as the years go by.


3 posted on 12/19/2010 12:27:26 PM PST by infidel29 (Since 0bama is NOT a uniter, can we change the acronym to just plain P.O.S.?)
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To: Cheetahcat

From the grassy knoll.


4 posted on 12/19/2010 12:27:30 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (REPEAL WASHINGTON! -- Islam Delenda Est! -- I Want Constantinople Back. -- Rumble thee forth.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I don't know much about the circumstances surrounding Gen. Patton's death, but I know a bit about his life and what he meant to our nation. I only half jokingly ask God that if he could spare Ronald Reagan and George Patton for a while, we sure could use them back here in the USA right now to straighten things out.

A few more if they're not doing anything...George Washington, JP Jones, Thomas Jefferson (along with James Madison, if for nothing else, to explain to the ACLU what was meant in our founding documents) Stonewall Jackson and Blackjack Pershing.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

5 posted on 12/19/2010 12:27:55 PM PST by wku man (Still holding my breath, but exhaling a bit after Nov. 2...)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

Conspiracy bait.


6 posted on 12/19/2010 12:29:15 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ConservativeStatement
I have always felt that was the case. He would have started a war with the “b@stards”(his words) Russians and we would have become a different people because of it.
7 posted on 12/19/2010 12:29:22 PM PST by cameraeye (A happy kufir!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Hello All, here’s the link to Amazon for the recent book on this topic. An entire show on Coast To Coast AM was devoted to this topic.

http://www.amazon.com/Target-Patton-Assassinate-General-George/dp/1596986069/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1292789567&sr=1-5


8 posted on 12/19/2010 12:30:27 PM PST by GravityFree (Death is not the end, nor the beginning of the end, but only the end of the beginning.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
I read Target: Patton when it was released a couple years ago.

As much as one wants to believe our government would not have one of its greatest warriors iced, both his popularity and outspoken anti-communist views certainly would have been a huge impediment to the post-war agreements hammered out a Yalta. We're only now coming to grips with (and paying for) the level of communist infiltration into western diplomatic and intelligence circles. I can't say definitively that the OSS killed Patton, but I think it would be safe to assert that there's more to the circumstances surrounding his death than has been publicly aired.

9 posted on 12/19/2010 12:30:33 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There have been suspicions about this for many years.

This adds further details that I haven’t heard before.

It wouldn’t be too surprising. Roosevelt was surrounded by Communists, and was virtually a Communist himself. And although Harry Truman seems to be viewed more sympathetically by conservatives now than he was at the time, he was responsible for giving China to the Communists.

Patton, of course, wanted to take Berlin for the western allies, before the Russians got there, but he was not permitted to do it. Roosevelt had agreed to hand over Eastern Europe to good old Uncle Joe, as he was commonly called during the war.


10 posted on 12/19/2010 12:31:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ConservativeStatement
He was murdered because of his staunch Conservative stance and his threat to the emerging new world order of which he was opposed and vocal. He was going to run for US Senator from CA and expose what he new and fight it. He was aggressive with the Soviets and did a lot to keep refugees out of Soviet hands, played a lot of cat-n-mouse with them and won more often then not. Yup, he was murdered, its really just a question of which Government got him first.
11 posted on 12/19/2010 12:31:33 PM PST by 95B30 ( The Professional Left: "Their morals are crooked, their logic is flawed, their honor is stolen)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Conspiracy, no. Automobile accident, yes.


12 posted on 12/19/2010 12:31:53 PM PST by centurion316
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To: cripplecreek

“Conspiracy bait.”

Are you serious?

I am sure that you know that the man driving Patton’s limo on the fateful day was the same man who was driving JFK’s limo in Dallas on 11.22.1963.

Moreover, it was that very same limo driver who drove President Lincoln to Ford’s Theater.


13 posted on 12/19/2010 12:33:25 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: trumandogz

Even more amazing is the fact that the Titanic sank exactly 47 years (and some months and days) after Lincoln’s “assassination”.


14 posted on 12/19/2010 12:35:55 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ConservativeStatement
It is clear Patton’s death has been covered up. I think there is sufficient reason to initiate an official investigation. Until the truth is revealed, the rumors will persist, crucial history may be lost and an enormous crime may go unpunished. Patton deserves better.

I think that it is pretty clear that Patton’s death will go unpunished regardless of the results of any investigation.

As this article points out the driver of the truck is already dead. Those who ordered the assassination undoubtedly would be even older than the driver ensuring that they also are already dead.

Yes certainly Patton’s death should be investigated but the opportunity for punishment is long gone.

15 posted on 12/19/2010 12:36:35 PM PST by Pontiac
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To: cameraeye

He would not have started a war, but he would have been impossible to ignore, along with Macarthur on the subject of partial warfare, political BS. He most assuredly was killed by forces within our own govt.


16 posted on 12/19/2010 12:37:10 PM PST by runninglips (Don't support the Republican party, work to "fundamentally change" it...conservative would be nice)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

“From the grassy knoll.”

No from behind


17 posted on 12/19/2010 12:39:33 PM PST by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
FYI.

Patton's Third Army deputy intel officer briefly was on the KGB's payroll

18 posted on 12/19/2010 12:40:05 PM PST by Palter (If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
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To: cripplecreek

And it is even stranger that while President’s Lincoln’s name was Lincoln and Lincoln was born on a Continent, he choose not to drive a Lincoln Continental, but a Cadillac, which was named after a French explorer!


19 posted on 12/19/2010 12:41:33 PM PST by trumandogz
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To: ConservativeStatement

Patton’s military career was pretty much finished at the end of WWII because of his political views and outspoken attitude. There was no need to kill him.


20 posted on 12/19/2010 12:41:52 PM PST by neocon1984
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