My sources: The biography “Patton” and consensus of all historians (not Russian) who stated that if the Allied Commanders would have listened to Patton, WWII would have ended at least a year earlier and saved hundreds of thousands of Allied troops. The Commanders thwarted Patton intentionally (gas for tanks) to make him unsuccessful because of his brilliance and popularity in the US.
Ike was terrified of his popularity because of his own political ambitions...yet, even though Patton always had stated that he never wanted to run for office, the egos of the Allied Commanders envied and hated Patton because he was brilliant and so much wiser and smarter than them.
The book, “Target: Patton” and, of course, other sources in many other books and on the internet, and the visiting of museums in Luxembourg, and the hit lists of Stalin and “allies” have convinced me that assasination is much more plausible than “accident”. The review on the following book on Amazon explains the “proof” much better than I can.
Nothing happens by accident in politics....wisdom of FDR.
http://www.amazon.com/Target-Patton-Assassinate-General-George/product-reviews/1596985798
Nonsense and false to boot. No one ignored Patton and there was NO way the war could have been ended a year earlier. Stalin was screaming at the allies because the invasion did not occur earlier. Yet, the generals supposedly commie were the ones saying it could not be done earlier. You can’t have it both ways.
Bradley was not willing to take the chance of Patton getting too far ahead of everyone else and not for far in the future political considerations.
Patton fought a blitzkrieg style of war and the danger with that is out running your supply lines and having them overrun by the enemies. There was not enough petrol for quite a long time while the allies were rebuilding the ports the Nazis destroyed. They had to lay a pipeline under the English Channel to get the oil over. And storms made that difficult and disrupted it more than once.
Of course, everyone knows that the commies regularly assassinate their enemies by having a truck driven by an American GI crash into their cars to break their necks. What a load.
The last thing Ike was thinking of in 1945 was running for president. He was not concerned about any such thing merely eliminating the Nazis. From everything I can see about this is that it was indeed an accident. God was just as likely to have removed him because his work was done as because of any nefarious plot.
Historians do not believe anything you said about this being anything but an accident.
You won’t find anyone who loves a good conspiracy more than I do either.
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There is nothing that could have ended the War a year earlier (May 1944 - even before a Western Front???).
Patton could have (maybe) gotten to Berlin a few weeks earlier than the Russians at best.