[Southack]

My personal friend's father was Patton's Italian translator, Moore (responsible for the ring kiss of the Pope).

And while General Patton would have "whupped up" on the Soviets if given a chance, he most wanted to be transfered over to the Pacific Front to speed up the fall of Hirohito.

Also, keep in mind that the Germans feared and hated the Soviets far more than Patton and the U.S...the Nazi insurgency was more concerned with keeping the U.S. in the game as a Soviet counter-balance.

...And the Soviets knew that Patton wanted to be transferred to the Pacific to take on the very armed forces that had humiliated the Russians 40 years earlier (the 1905 invasion that was beaten by the kamikazis).

So the Italians loved him (and switched sides in the war greatly because of him), the Soviets knew that he wanted to be transferred, and the Germans wanted him alive to counter-balance the Soviets.

In short, his death was not due to Man, but Fate.

[spanalot]

"And the Soviets knew that Patton wanted to be transferred to the Pacific "

That may be after it became apparent that we did not have the resolve to stop the Russian invasion of eastern europe.

But he lobbied heavily to stand firm against the Russians but was denied.

[When do we get liberated?]

Really? Kamikaze's fought the Russians to a draw in 1905? 1905? When airplanes were backyard toys they had the payload to sink anything bigger than the U.S.S. Minnow?
The "kamikazi" is translated to divine wind in Japanese. It refers to a typhoon that sank a mongrel hoards fleet that came to take Japan. About 900 years earlier.

[higgmeister]

In short, his death was not due to Man, but Fate.

Occam's Razor would seem to corroborate your observation.