No one was more surprised than me. I was in Patton's army for about 3 weeks in 1944. He always seemed to be 'on the edge' of something. I think it was an accident. Patton lived only for war. He died on active duty, in uniform, no doubt wearing his pearl handled pistols. War was over, peace reigned, Patton was no more. Let it be.
They were ivory. Only a pimp in a New Orleans whorehouse would have pearl handled revolvers!
It was ... it could be construed that God was calling Patton home in order to make him available for another war. Patton always believed he was reincarnated from an earlier warrior who commanded in war.