Patton died of injuries received from a simple automobile accident. These conspiracy theories are all nonsense with authors cashing in on Patton’s legend.
I agree. It sure wasn’t an effective way to eliminate him. Hell, as it was, he almost survived.
I have read that Eisenhower stopped the US advance toward Prague and Berlin for the simple reason that he did not want to subject our troops to the anticipated horrendous casualties anticipated in the final push. Let the Russians suffer the losses.
The American public could care less about the Russians. They just wanted to stop the losses of our troops.
Ike was correct. We had given enough.
RIGHT-—And Vince Foster committed suicide in Fort Marcy Park.
"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!"
He was killed by a drunk driver and the guy felt guilt and remorse for his actions. I believe he took is own life years later over it.
I thought so as well until in the 1980s a WW II veteran friend expreseed his shock at the way the story was beginning to come out. A fluent German speaker, he was part of an Army intel unit in Europe at the end of WW II and read reports that Patton had been assainated because he was determined to solve the theft of billions in gold from US Army custody. As my friend explained, a large swath of senior US generals were involved and feared ending up ruined, humiliated, and in hard time in Leavenworth had their thievery been exposed by Patton. Officially, the disappearance of the German gold remains a mystery.
Secretary of Defense Forrestal—did he jump, or have assistance in departing a 16th floor window? He died from injuries related to the sudden stop after a long free-fall.