Posted on 04/18/2019 6:38:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
You’re right!
I don’t have my books handy. Relying on my increasingly aging memory!
But not necessary to kill him. Nothing prevented Eisenhower or Truman from relieving him of his command.
Patton had stated that professionalism prevented him coming forward on some issues while still in uniform. He planned on exposing some after the war. Dismissal would have speeded this up.
I still contend that the Russians deliberately had his window opened in his hospital room causing him to catch pneumonia and Die.
But Patton did not die of pneumonia...
I wonder when Bill O’Reilly is going to come out with a book “Ghost Writing for Bill O’Reilly: The False Intellectualizing of a Media Blowhard”?
Postwar, Patton was possibly going to be nominated as US Army Ground Forces Commander. But as the US Army Air Force was about to be spun off as a separate service branch, the position was being done away with. I mention this as it would have been possible to “promote” Patton out of the limelight. Bury him in the Pentagon where reporters had less access to him. In short, it wasn’t necessary to murder him.
RIGHT-—And Vince Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park.
I understand. Me too on the memory thing.
You’re right about his handling of Metz. He eventually took Metz but at great cost. It should have been one of the bypassed areas...starve them out.
“I still contend that the Russians deliberately had his window opened in his hospital room causing him to catch pneumonia and Die”.
Yeah, sure. He had full time nurses and doctors. They put on jackets when they went into his room?
He was not left alone for long periods of time.
"Okay, we need to kill Patton. Here's the plan: we'll have an army truck hit his car at low speed. Patton will be sure to have his head close to the glass partition, so he'll hit that and break his neck. Then, we just have to wait two weeks while he lies in the hospital in a body cast for him to catch pneumonia and die. It's foolproof!"
It was just a guess since remakes these days put all that in although as you said, you’ve only seen the trailers not the whole movie.
Admit it. George C. Scott is how we picture Patton, The movie is more familiar to Americans than the history.
(I mistyped history as histroy, which would have been condign, but misread)
The trailer proves that it is not PC. I will not see the movie. I have read a lot about his death and it was simply a tragic ending.
He had no business being put in the position of Military Governor of Bavaria. He didn’t have the temperament for that kind of job.
I agree with Centurion 316 and Laplata regarding there was NO conspiracy to kill Patton. And for all his otherwise faults, Bill O’Riley makes that clear at the end of his book “Killing Patton.” Patton’s decision to go hunting on the day of the accident was made that morning according to statements of his driver and General Hobart Gay, Patton’s companion on the trip. If I can find the review I wrote about Reiley’s “Killing Patton” I will post it in this thread.
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Introduction to “The Patton Episode” by Dr. R. Glen Spurling, MD.
The death of General George S. Patton, Jr., on December 21, 1945, in Heidelberg, Germany, has produced a cottage industry of examinations and/or speculation about the cause of the auto accident on December 9 near Mannheim, Germany, and whether or not he was murdered in the Heidelberg Hospital.
The following document entitled “The Patton Episode” was written afterward by the attending neurosurgeon, Colonel R. Glen Spurling, M.D. Colonel Spurling was the Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery for the Surgeon General of the US Army. After the auto accident that left General Patton paralyzed, Colonel Spurling was ordered to fly to Germany and personally attend to the general. This account provides a detailed description of the injury, the treatment General Patton received and the cause of his death on December 21, 1945. Colonel Spurling wrote his account in March, 1957, in response to the various theories about “the real cause” of Patton’s accident and death. He provided a copy to the US Army Center of Military History, where this document currently resides.
Author’s name redacted by GreyFriar
Chief, Historical Resources Branch,
US Army Center of Military History.
Unfortunately when Patton arrived in front of Metz in September, 1944, was at the same time of the gasoline shortage and Ike decided to give priority on gasoline supply to Monty. In hindsight, that gasoline would have been better used allowing Patton to continue his offensive, bypassing Metz which was mostly empty of German troops and reaching the Rhine river and the Franco-German border before the fall rains began. The halting of Patton gave the Germans time to stop running, re-organize their shattered units and to reinforce Metz.
S&A is correct, although it was feared that Patton would contract pneumonia while in the hospital, his cause of death was a pulmonary embolism. Mrs. Patton informed Dr. (Lt. Col) Spurling, the Army’s top neurosurgeon, that the General had broken his right leg “15 or 20 years before and had almost died of a pulmonary embolism.”
I am convinced that the only way the average American knows any history is through TV or movies. People just don’t read!
To me it explains why TV advertising is so effective!
Your theory about the “Russians opened his window....” is fantasy. Patton was in a heavily guarded US controlled hospital in Germany and he was surrounded by US medical personnel and his wife was with him in his hospital room within a couple of days after the accident until his death. General Marshall ordered the USAAF to fly her to Germany to be with her husband.
Hence, General Patton and President Trump.
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Got a ring to it; but, could they get along...??????
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