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?
Not possible: FDR wouldn’t allow such a thing.
Watch the movie “Brass Target”, same plot and method to kill Patton. Is this true or a vivid imagination?
The proximity of the truck pulling across the median crossing in front of Patton’s staff car was sheer happenstance. The injuries received in the accident were consistent with an accident of this nature, where the General was thrown forward in the “secondary collision” within the vehicle in which he was riding.
But dying of “complications” while hospitalized with his injuries, would be entirely consistent with actions by the NKVD.
Patton’s plan, had he gotten to Berlin first, would have been to utilize all the German Army as a strike force to drive right on into Moscow. In fact, he had broken across the Rhine way ahead of schedule, and had already started the drive, apparently in defiance of the Supreme Commander, when he was called back across the Rhine, to hold in line until the Russians could bring their forces up from the East.
Patton said the next time an opportunity would have presented itself, he would have smashed all his radios and plunged full speed ahead, damn the consequences. In 1944, he knew very well who the US would be fighting their next war with.
If Patton had returned to the US and appeared before Congress and the nation, he would have been nominated and elected President by acclamation, because he was going to “rip the lid off” all the undercover and subversive agents in the whole US government.
Bazata started selling his BS nonsense in the early 90’s.
I think the point of this article is that he did not die in a road “mishap”