“best combat general the US Army ever had!”
Well, I don’t know if I would call him the “best”, but he certainly is in the top 5% of operational level commanders for the entire period of US history.
However, this nonsense about the Russians assasinating him has been going around since 1945. It was nonsense then, and it still is today. The Russians just weren’t clever enough in 1945 to pull off such a feat. IF I were (which I do not) going to suscribe to a conspiracy theory....it would be about our own top brass offing him. However, that is nonsense as well.
The whole assassination conspiracy notion is just absurd. To believe it, you have to believe that the best plan someone could come up with was to stage a car accident, run up to Patton's car and use some sort of magical weapon that would break his neck, then wait a couple of weeks for him to develop a pulmonary edema and congestive heart failure from being laid up in a body cast.
They were smart enough to infiltrate damn near every level of our gubmint were they not? Never underestimate the bear, never.