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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Target Patton by Robert Wilcox
a good book for Christmas :)
Nam Vet
I truly believe he was killed by the Communist in the US government.. Patton a strong anti-communist and the powers that be at the time were appeasing the Russians... Its time for the truth to be told..
Years ago I read speculation that a Czech debris gun was used to try and kill him. Sounds like further efforts may have been used to silence him. As a side note I think Gen Patton was a warrior in a previous life and time. And I can remember doing a book report long ago and I was most curious that it didn’t list his dob - a point I had to defend with the teacher.
Bwahahaha....
Yes, he was taken out by the US Military.
Wouldn’t surprise me that Patton got killed. At that time like today, those people who speak their mind without bowing to the altar of political correctness end up getting silenced !
Neil Armstrong didn’t do the moonwalk—Michael Jackson did.
That was the propaganda at the time. Do you think Mao was better?
And this is precisely why the truth will likely never be told.
he was murdered. many when i was in the army many were convinced of this.
Ahh but the real kicker is that if you rearrange the letters in "Titanic" and "Lincoln" it doesn't even come close to spelling "Leonardo DiCaprio"...
(However you can rearrange the letters in "Leonardo DiCaprio" to spell "A Ironclad Odor Pie".
“He was also a threat to FDR as a Presidential candidate, he may have changed our future”
Huh? The only way that could be true is if FDR was running for president in hell
Would it not have been simpler, less suspicious, and more practical for the assassins to have finished the job at the scene of the accident?
You can’t with any degree of certainty kill a person in a slow-moving vehicle by putting a truck in front of him. So let’s say that Patton’s broken neck had some other cause there at the scene of the accident.
Are we to assume that the Russians don’t know how to do this properly? So that he’s dead instead of just paralyzed and requiring additional violence later?
Meanwhile he’s alive and might possibly speak?
Not to mention the witnesses at the scene. Very messy situation, very unprofessionally arranged.
Conclusion: assassination not likely.
“Years ago I read speculation that a Czech debris gun was used to try and kill him. Sounds like further efforts may have been used to silence him. As a side note I think Gen Patton was a warrior in a previous life and time. And I can remember doing a book report long ago and I was most curious that it didn’t list his dob - a point I had to defend with the teacher.”
The more I hear it sounds like he was silenced and no accident.
He was progressing until ‘specialists’ from Washington arrived to take over his medical care. He didn’t survive long under their ‘treatment’.
All conspiracy theories are funny.
These were not Iranian type "human waves" as were used in Stalingrad, but crack fighting troops that rolled over the Wehrmacht. And they had top equipment because we gave it to them (except for their tanks and artillery, which often used our designs). It would have been a disaster of the first order to send about 80 divisions (allowing for some to police Japan and the Pacific) against 200+.
We didn't have a bomber capable of flying to Moscow and back with atomic bombs (see "Hollow Threat" by USAF Col. Harry Borowski) and only had 100 bombs period by about 1947. When you account for planes shot down---in a-bomb raids you can bet every single Soviet fighter would be up---a-bombs would not have proven tactically useful in an invasion.
Our strat was the right one, as Reagan ultimately showed: box them in, make Communism fail economically, don't give an inch of new ground. Play defense militarily, offense economically and technologically.
Agreed. Reality is hard to take for some people.
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