"Target: Patton " Topic

Take some minutes and read this interesting thread from another forum.

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By the way, they show as much "love" as in our dear TMP (smile).
But their comments are interesting.

What do you think?
Any probability of Target Patton?

Amicalement
Armand

A examination of the allegations,
"The death of General George S. Patton
Although the accident and subsequent death of General George S. Patton in December 1945 is beyound the scope of my book about the Netherlands American Military Cemetery in Margraten, I'd like to share my research and comments about an alledged plot on this subject. General Patton is buried at the Luxembourg American Military Cemetery, and is the highest ranking and most famous soldier buried overseas."
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Wow…started reading the thread and for a moment I thought I was on the Nappy's board on in a conversation here on "Why Historicon should be held at The Host"!!!

Did they put radioactive isotopes in his helmet polish?

Glad you had enjoy the thread boys.
Thanks for the data Robert!.

What's your own opinion about it?

Amicalement
Armand

My Greatuncle claimed he was a medic and attended to Patton after he was shot by a sniper. All those at the site were rounded up and held until they signed papers saying they would not disclose the real cause of death. His service record shows he was in the area of the car crash when it happened. He also claims that Patton was buried overseas to prevent any exhumation of the body. It was a closed casket funeral. The reason for the coverup was the fear that the Russians had assassinated him and disclosure would start another war in Europe. At least that's what he claimed.

Wow

About 1 in 5 old British soldiers also claim to have driven Monty/Churchill.

A sniper would have an easy head shot on Patton, given the size of it.

John

Nick I love the adolescent smugness with which you summarize books you have never read.

Ouch!

And Patton was indeed going home, and was actually hurt in the car accident the very day before he was leaving. Furthermore Patton was not retiring but resigning from the Army and he was planning to speak out re: corruption within SHAEF and expose what the Russians were really up to in Europe. He was resigning so that he could no longer be ordered to shut his mouth. So his death was either A) An extremely lucky accident for the Russians B)a plot to silence him.

But yeah, it's ludicrous to believe that Stalin would ever plot to have anyone killed, right?

Interesting. Of course, it turns out that Stalin had many spies in the British and US administrations. Think of the number of "atomic" spies who were eventually rounded up.

How people love conspiracy theories. Stuff like that comes out in the wash at some point. Would the Russians really take the risk of the US finding out and starting a war when the US had the A bomb? No.
Would the US murder its own generals? No

And did Patton know anything about what the Russians were doing that others did not know? Very doubtful.
The truth is that Roosevelt had been conned by Stalin who had exploited the division between the Western leaders. Roosevelt resented Churchill because Churchill wanted to use the US for British ends. However, Churchill, a man loaded with faults, was way better at foreign policy than Roosevelt who was frankly naive. Stalin went behind Churchill's back to Roosevelt and Roosevelt welcomed this. The world was to be carved up between the big two. The French were alt
Ready of no account, the British exhausted. Roosevelt loved it. He refused to go with Churchill on two key points
1) the war had been fought for Poland. At its end Poland should have its territory restored plus East Prussia.
2) all liberated countries should have been given guarantees of non interference. The British managed to get to help the Greeks in 47', but the US A would not stand up to Russia.
It is understandable that Truman wanted out of the war and the troops back hone, however, it took US administrations 3 years to understand that, despite having won the war the west was engaged with a worse enemy than the Nazis and had handed that enemy the advantage of holding all of Eastern Europe.

Roosevelt was not conned. He got what he wanted. Roosevelt was totally indifferent about the fate of Eastern Europe.
Heck, had he lived, the French would have never got back to retake Indochina.

If anyone was conned, it was Truman, and for that I blame Roosevelt who kept him totally in the dark.

OMG, those bozos make ME look "helpful"!

Totally agree with you John!

Amicalement
Armand

I think the Grassy Knoll did it.

Or possibly Monty…..