Posted on 12/21/2019 4:55:54 PM PST by DFG
Seventy- five years ago this month, General George S. Patton was en route to a Sunday afternoon hunting trip in the devastated region of Mannheim, Germany when his Cadillac limousine collided with a military truck parked on the side of the road. The two other passengers in the vehicle were unharmed except General Patton who was left with a massive head wound and paralyzed from the neck down.
Patton was swiftly taken to an Army hospital 20 miles away where he made rapid strides in recovery over the course of 12 days. His presiding physician had given him the medical clearance to make the gruelling trans-Atlantic flight back home when suddenly on December 21, 1945, the indestructible general who revelled in his nickname ‘Old Blood and Guts’ was pronounced dead.
No autopsy was ever performed. All the reports and investigations into the accident have mysteriously disappeared. In 1979, an American spy with a sterling reputation named Douglas Bazata claimed that he was ordered by the Office of Strategic Services (a precursor to the CIA) to kill Patton and make his murder look like an accident.
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Look at the car photos at the wreck scene.All windows rolled up.Sitting at the front of the seat in a caddy limo will not allow you to hang your head out the window anyway.The rear windows in the picture are partially over the rear wheelwells and do not lower.
Tell me that many pertinent records did not wind up in Sandy Berger’s socks. Patton was outspoken about the Soviet threat, the infiltration of the U.S. government by Soviet agents and the U.S. role in the slave trade agreed to in the Yalta Agreement. Most comments concentrate on his possible murder in the hospital but the traffic accident was suspicious. It may have been an accident, however knowing how dirty the government was it would not be beyond the realm of possibility.
Not feasible in a caddy limo while seated.
What’s your point?
I’ve read most of the accounts, including step by step treatments that they used trying to save his life. Patton died of a blood clot to the lung. He was susceptible to blood clots, having almost died of some clots. He died of his injuries.
I understand all of the reasons they’d want to do him.
“Wild Bill” Donovan was a first class son of a bitch and I don’t doubt that he was capable of killing him..
I read that eyewitnesses (who included his wife) said he had his head out of the window when the accident occurred.
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How could his wife be a witness??
As the Trump-Russia collusion proves, the high ranking deep staters would never attempt a conspiracy. </S>
And had Hillary won not a shred of evidence would have come out about Trump/Russia either.
As I see it, there are three primary pieces of evidence in hand on the subject: (1) former wartime OSS agent Douglas Bazata claimed to have arranged the assassination of Patton, with a polygraph test showing no sign of deception; (2) Patton's medical condition was improving but he died suddenly and mysteriously while in hospital; and (3), the road accident that put Patton in the hospital was suspicious and pertinent records are almost all missing.
These do not add up to proof that Patton was murdered but do sustain a reasonable suspicion to that effect. Further investigation by historians may yield a definitive conclusion.
I saw that movie when it came out years ago. Burly and with a deep voice and gruff manner, George Kennedy made for a good Patton on screen, but casting him was not historically accurate. In actuality, Patton was short and on the thin side with a high pitched voice. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was to become a commanding presence and flamboyant personality in spite of such handicaps.
You may be thinking of General Walton Walker, 8th Army commander in the first year of the Korean War. He was killed in a roll over jeep accident.
He was succeeded by one of the greatest commanders in US history, Matthew Ridgeway, who went on to become UN Supreme commander when MacArthur was fired by Truman..
For example, Bruce Lee's path-breaking Marching Orders recounts numerous discoveries he made in the records of of the intelligence analysis of high-level Japanese and German codes during WW II. Yet he was denied access to some records and was told that they would never be made available to researchers.
I thought I read she was in the car. The war was over, he wasn’t in a military setting.
The Democrats needed you on the Intelligence Committee. Crazy Land, sorry.
Probably so!
Getting old & not as sharp as I used to be.
It was a staff car in the movie, too.
When he and Bradley had a talk about what’s next?
That was a staff car? If so it shows its been a long time since I have seen the movie.
“I thought I read she was in the car. The war was over, he wasn’t in a military setting”.
That’s one of the most ignorant and idiotic things I’ve ever read here.
I hope you are kidding.
Actually yes, they probably were lucky. It’s a crap shoot some times. I’ve seen one person wake up alive and well from an accident where I saw the picture of the car and was certain someone had died in it, but they didn’t, and another situation with a minor dent and the driver sustained permanent neurological damage. Heck, I was in an accident about 5 years ago myself where a group of college girls blew through a red light and sheared the front of my car off (literally the entire engine block). If they had been a quarter of a second slower or I had been a quarter of a second faster, the full 60 mph impact would have been on my driver door. Parts of my car all over the road; when the first cop arrived on the scene I was clearing some debris off the intersection to open at least one lane for traffic; cop looks at my car, asks where’s the driver? I point at myself. He shakes his head in disbelief and comes over and shakes my hand.
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