What I want to know was when was Patton a member of the Joint Chiefs, and when was the "Personal physician" to them born? To be what he claims to have been would require him to be about 90 years old if not more.
Embellish a little here, embellish a little there and the next thing you know, the story's full of talking serpents, people-swallowing whales, and people rising from the dead.