Posted on 12/20/2008 6:04:53 PM PST by bruinbirdman
iNteresting, hadn’t heard the truck sidewhack & low-velocity projectile theory before.
Sad too, regardless, Patton was a great man. He deserved to die on a battlefield, not in a “road mishap”.
Where is my tinfoil hat?
I do not believe a word of this.
Patton was a great warrior, and a great American. “Wild Bill” would not have done this, nor condoned it.
Total Bunk.
Ahhh, but the poison delivered by a Russky had to nail the deal for this one. Ol’ Patton would not have gone quietly. ;-)
5.56mm
Low velocity means big drop over distance.
Further, some ‘bullet’ the size of a .45, would have to leave the barrel, not too slow, or it would drop at your feet, but not too fast to hit the spine and not tear the skin, or puncture.
There is no way, out in the field, on a moving target, on a near elderly man that this would work.
Bunk.
Not possible: FDR wouldn’t allow such a thing.
Well, it’s true that our alliance with Stalin had some very unfortunate consequences. I’m not sure I believe this, but it’s possible.
Didn’t Ike stop Patten so the Soviet army could take Berlin? That adds some credibility to this story.
And Ike was presumably leaned on by the Commies in the White House.
The author was on Coast to Coast last week. It was pretty interesting.
I am a big GSP.FAN hence my name this is a load of Bu*****t..
What next A Oliver Stone movie????
YITBOS & Merry CHRISTmas!
I don’t believe the story although it was odd that Patton suffered so serious an injury from what was apparently a minor accident.
I think Patton thought God had created him just to play his part in the war. After the was ended so did Patton’s role.
I do remember in one of the books they mentioned how they brought in a Scottish specialist who ordered hooks to be placed in Patton’s face to pull his neck back straight. It worked and he seemed to be getting better then suddenly took a turn for the worse.
Like I said, I don’t believe the story about the assassination but would like to see it investigated a little more.
This whole scenario is out of a 1970’s movie.
No, really. The whole account, arranged accident, “low-velocity projectile” and all, came from a screenwriters pen.
“Brass Target”, 1978, with Robert Vaughn, Max Von Sydow, Sophia Loren and Patrick McGoohan among many others - this was a star-studded cast.
I suspect that fellow telling the tall tales in his 80’s just gave a summary of a movie he once saw, and the writer fell for it.
I seem to recall that he corrected a journalist in the movie, Patton, saying that they were ivory handled.
Am I right about this?
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