General Patton's Death - Accident or Murder?
Was General George S. Patton, America's most famous WWII general, murdered in December 1945? And why? We examine the circumstances and the theories.
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A local man who recently died of old age once stopped Patton's car at a checkpoint at gunpoint. The car wasn't marked and he had no idea the General was inside. Patton defended the then young 17 year old private to his superiors saying "I wish I had another hundred boys just like him. He's a damn fine soldier who was doing his job." Patton recommended his promotion to corporal, which he recieved, written recommendation I read for myself from the man's scrapbook.
You watched the last days of Patton movie
That's an awful story lol. Now this child is a corporal in the us army.
@RogerwilcoFoxtrot his name was "Pepper" Martin. His father served as a private in the confederate army under General Sterling Price, and later as our circuit court judge
@@daviddigital6887 no I didn't know about that movie. This man was my neighbor. His name was "Pepper" Martin.
@RogerwilcoFoxtrot yes ol "Pep" said that they had orders to not allow anybody through, and that Pattons car was unmarked for some reason (I've forgot why, or if I ever heard why tbh)
They didn't want Patton coming home and getting into politics.
((They))
Don’t forget right before his “ accident “. He publicly stated we fought for the wrong side..
No one did. Thank god.
@@jackandblaze5956 yeah cause trump was infamously known for being tough and aggressive on american enemies
@@jumpkickman8524 Thoy
My uncle served under Patton and was wounded at the Battle of the Bulge. He was only given about 5 years to live after his injury. He died in 2008.
Cool story now delete it and move on no one wants to see your cringe lies
Precious
My Uncle as well served with the 101st Airborne @ Bastogne...
@kaymuldoon3575 - Same as my WW2 Combat Vet Dad, Wounded In The Battle of the Bulge.
I can never get over how Patton actually sounded..especially after having George C Scott’s portrayal embedded in my mind.
Omg I know. He had that old new York tang lol
George C Scott was a better Patton than Patton was.
You could not possibly get more hard nosed Yankee than Patton. @@AlphaFlight
@@craigthescott5074 ease up son hahahaha
@@Frip36he was literally an ethnic and cultural southerner. His accent sounds nothing like a New Yorker or a Californian from the era despite growing up in California
*[**1:40**] "Patton...was not slow in stating his opinions..."* This is British understatement working overtime.
@bartley butsford The English have always great manners. That is what makes "Our American Cousin still funny to this day.
patton had what was called his "Wagon Train" . Train cars , busses and large trucks where movie stars and celebrities could visit for photo ops . Far , far behind enemy lines and the action . My dad and uncle were 101st Airborne at the time and knew all about "Ole Blood and Guts " - "His guts and our blood" . Don't believe the movies and BS .
Agreed
@@QuantumMechanic_88 spot on 👍
His #1 trait, in my opinion, was the fact that he wasn't a pu$$y.
I find it odd that a drunk soldier joyriding in a military vehicle was not charged for killing one of the most famous generals in US history.
There is a huge difference in public attitude about driving drunk then and driving drunk now. The first drunk driving laws were not even implemented in this county until 35 years earlier in the State of New York. Drinking and driving was very common right up through the 1950's and pretty much acceptable by the public. I can remember being a little kid and driving home with my dad drunk as hell. Happened all the time among "The Greatest Generation."
@@jharback still ignoring the part where he killed the general. Even if he wouldn’t be arrested for drunk driving, he killed a general. Edit: General not his commanding officer
Maybe it got swept under the rug because Patton spoke out that we fought the wrong enemy.
@@charliekrips6533 I think he just thought we should’ve invaded both not an either or
@Charlie Krips They should of listened to Patten. They should of allowed Patten run them out of Europe back to atleast Russia. Patten was right. They took over half of Europe. But more aptly put. The Communists enslaved half of Europe. Communism is nothing more than a Satanic form of government.
"We defeated the wrong enemy." Those words sealed his fate.
Imagine speaking in favour of Nazi Germany 😂😂
@@dann5480he meant the Soviets were worse. He never said anything in favor of the Nazis
@@dann5480 Nazi Germany wasn't trying to conquer the world and kill everyone fool
@@dann5480Imagine being a tool who believes all the lies he’s been told.
@@dann5480 imagine reflexively calling someone a nazi sympathizer in 2024. the point is obviously that our actions essentially meant the communists won the war
My late uncle Adrien Gagnon from New Hampshire is buried in the same small American Cemetery in Hamm Luxembourg that Gen. Patton is buried in. I visited the cemetery in 1975 as an American US Army soldier. My uncle died in action on January 1, 1945 during the Battle of the Bulge. May God grant peace to the fine soldiers buried there.
I went there this year. Very calm, beautiful place.
It is a nice resting place for those brave men. Local families 'adopted' gravesites and placed flowers on them regularly as thanks to those who died liberating their country from occupation.@@Ellecram
@@Dan-gg8fk Very interesting to know. Thank you for your reply.
Mark Felton: Was it an accident or murder? History Channel: Def Aliens
ahaha yep....
YFW his death prevented the initiation of the XCOM project
Hahaha seriously
Aliens, tryin to survive in the mountains.
Ancient Aliens were never reported as NOT doing do, so what makes you think the modern ones WILL? (Off screen: "what am I talking about again?")
The fact that he wished to be buried amongst his men rather than Arlington deserves credit.
Assassinated because he did not want to fight the Germans + had a dislike for jews
Hum well Arlington wasn't what is today especially before JFK.
Arlington was originally done so Lee had live results of his actions.
Yes it does and in that he was great.
Yes
My uncle served under Patton in Africa; he had the utmost respect for him & said he was the greatest general.
What they don't mention is he had the same driver the entire war until this
Who are ‘they’, poppet? And why would that be important anyway?
@@robertcottam8824the jews
@@robertcottam8824Driver suddenly changes = inmediate "accident" in which driver lives and powerful individual does not = immediately suspicious Also, why are you so butthurt over the usage of "they"? "They" at this point after the fact could mean anyone and everyone, from historians to the CIA to contemporary political pundits.... but YOU seem pretty agitated over it's frankly innocuous throwaway usage here... why?
It is quite odd that a Private First Class would have been detailed to drive a Four Star General!
My initial reaction to hearing Gen. Patton speak...”He doesn’t sound anything like George C. Scott.”.
bruh i thought he sounded like trump for some reason
Yeah. I read a while back that he had a higher pitched (his enemies would say "pipsqueak") voice, so I was prepared.
His son, also a genera,l had the same reaction when he first saw the movie. That in reality, his real voice was kind of high pitched, not like GeorgeC.Scott.
George C Scott was the real Patton, the other one was a phoney.
George C Scott had more panache! :)
My great grandfather (on my moms side) was a tank commander for Patton. When Patton got mad at him, he would rip his patches off, then would apologize and give them back. A crazy story is that my grandfather was having a lunch break sitting outside his tank when he noticed that there was an allied plane being attacked by an axis plane. My grandpa told his men to shoot down the enemy plane, and when they did that, the allied plane saw my grandfather and waved. Later my grandfather found out that he was my grandmother’s brother who he saved.
Wow.
Sounds very erratic for a 3 star General! *
Patton was in Washington 1932 killing war veterans from world War 1 how does that sound karma is a beautiful thing
an amazing story.
Sounds like a nut job.
It is a honour that the grave of this man is in my country. Every where in my country you will find memorials for this man. We will never forget that him and his soldiers have liberate our country. Greetings from Luxembourg
General Patton was murdered is without question. His history of saying what he thought with little regard for the consequences is what brought about his demise.
There is a fine line between genius and madness that is often precariously walked by the most powerful characters in history.
Genius or not he was still a POS towards a) his soldiers b) other soldiers (e.g. italian POW)
Yeah but the line between sane and deranged is very clear.
@kickingmustang good on you for repeating fake MSM cliches.
@@burnstick1380 Patton would have fit in the pacific war. Unofficial American policy was never to take Japanese prisoners alive due to Japans abuse snd murder of American POWs.
@@MrWolfstar8 do you have a source on this? But still doesn't excuse his behaviour
My wife's grandfather (Emil Bongiovanni) was a medic with the 117th. Normandy through the end, including Bastogne. He says that Patton saved his life. Emil's best friend was the first attending medic to Patton's "accident". The anti-Soviet rhetoric was well-known. Emil said that Patton said, "We are here, we are mobilized, we are strong. They will be the next problem. Let's take care of them now while they are weak". Emil is still alive as of this comment. He is 98. Update: Emil passed away at 99 years old, about a year after this comment, just short of 100. To his deathbed he maintained that Patton saved his life and the Russians had Patton killed, which the first responding medic also was certain of in his own words. My wife's late grandmother Gloria also knew this medic well. Sergeant L. Ogden I believe. They were all close friends and good folks.
God bless your wife's grandfather!
Not that they were weak. The Soviets had the biggest standing army in the European theatre by far, about 500 rifle divisions and roughly a tenth of that tank divisions. It was a good thing to call it a day.
@@haraldhimmel5687 they’re leadership was broken and they just lost 8.6 million men. We supplied them a lot and we were technologically way ahead of them. Our military was at 16 million compared to their 11 million, so uh we could’ve easily taken them if we wanted
@rian marky nah, they would’ve had B-29’s take off from Japan and drop Atomic bombs on Moscow
@@WarInHD and we had nukes on the way which they didnt. That the US left some lands such as in Czechoslovakia that later fell under Stalin is horrible. Imagine that suffering going from being under the Nazis to then being under the Soviets.
Of course the press wouldn't like someone who isn't afraid of telling truths.
Eh? What? The press don’t like idiots who don’t know when to shut up? Are you serious? Why d’ya think they followed General Numb-nuts around? Hahahahahah! It was the press and that movie that made ‘Ole Poltroon’ a hero - Patton certainly didn’t!
SO being pro Nazi is "truth" now? Follow your leader.
...and is a asshool.
Tell the full story. There was more than one so-called accident. They tried and failed to kill him before.
Can you explain more please, I would like to look into this
Did you find out? I'm curious too@@aamir.vision
Oh wow
Where is this listed?
Whose the "they"? Andy McKane, 10 February 2024, Maunaloa, Hawaii.
A drunk AWOL soldier kills a 4 star general and no charges filed!? Hmmm
He didn't kill the general. The general was injured and was taken to a hospital. Such minor accidents were common in the Army. If they filed charges every time some soldier bumped his truck into another vehicle, they would still be holding trials today.
@@leezaslofsky4438 But he was drunk (no test) in a truck he should not have been in and rammed a 4 star generals car, who then dies, not an ordinary minor accident
@@clivebaxter6354 And did you see the picture of the damage to the car? That was not a bump. It likely was an accident but no charges? The driver of the truck was lucky Patton was injured and passed out cause he likely would have shot him right there in the street.
@@rodbenson5879 You are upset because the young impaired driver had caused a non lethal road accident (Patton was injured; he died later in hospital) was not thoroughly investigated? You are upset because no one thought there was any kind of conspiracy behind the accident? You would have ordered a thorough investigation? This is what conspiracy thinking leads to: endless suspicion, endless calls for investigation, endless complaints that "they're hiding something". And in the end, nothing is clarified, nothing is revealed, it was all a big waste of time. (Think: Benghazi or Whitewater). In those days, they had better things to do than sit around "investigating" a road accident to see if someone was "behind" it.
I highly doubt there was anything sinister about the accident. I mean, sure the driver of the truck screwed up and turned right in front of the car, but that's no guarantee that Patton would be killed in the crash. There are certainly better ways to assassinate someone. Poison their food and then claim they died of a heart attack, for example.
When you drive into a 4 star general killing him, and no futher charges are made. You know whats up.
Imagine this exact scenario but on the German’s side. Wouldn’t end well for the person who caused it.
Patton told the MP's not to charge the driver.
this is what happens when you dont wear seat belts (or when they dont even exist yet)
There were a staggering number of deaths and injuries from vehicle accidents in WW2... as already mentioned... no seatbelts... fatigued drivers ... little lighting at night etc. Sometimes accidents just happen.
@@trooperdgb9722 Thank You some sense in the comment section
Murder. He talked about the wrong people, places, and things. Got shut up for good. Wasn't useful anymore. Was in fact dangerous.
I love how one program ultimately destroyed one guy's theory that he had over a decade "researching". And many fail to remember that Patton had a previous neck injury, one that had nearly killed him.
So he was literally getting better, then dies with no autopsy. Big think.
Once people start suspecting an assassination conspiracy an intelligence agent comes out with a story so ridiculous that it couldn't be true. Then the press, that never coordinates with intelligence agencies, elevates the obviously false story, thus disproving the entire theory of an assassination conspiracy. Brilliant analysis!
This happens all the time even today though. It was especially common back with 1945 medicine.
@@Gargatul0th It's just a coincidence, everyone knows that the good side won the war, look at the world now, everything is okay *-*
@@Gargatul0th Indeed. Look into Gareth Williams of GCHQ.. died in suspicious circumstances to say the least and then the media publishes a story about his activities based on likely falsified information provided by his previous employer.
@Derek Jackson Why Orwell's death is shaddy? I found nothing on Google.
The motor accident seems neither here nor there, but the sudden deterioration in hospital could stand dilating on
Indeed.. And yet.. Mark here seems to dismiss the possibility out of hand.
I believe you are right. The accident was caused by drunkeness and misfortune but why were the soldiers driving drunk not punished? He was recovering in the hospital AND PLANNED TO WRITE A BOOK DENOUNCING THE USA GIVING UP EASTERN EUROPE TO THE RUSSIAN SOVIET BOLSHEVIKS! Warmonger U.S. Pres. Truman who used A bombs on behalf of Joe Stalin against Japan twice and hoped to get the U.K. to do it again would have been hurt by Gen. Patton's allegations against his administration and the USSR wanted him dead! Poison to do him in in the hospital is a reasonable suspicion!
@@djpy6574 keep sniffing wood glue, sparky.
@@djpy6574 Patton's book would have been one of many produced by the right wingers in America, along with many articles and broadcasts. His opinion was not unusual. He was part of a loud but not very numerous faction who regretted the alliance with the USSR and would probably have been happier fighting alongside Hitler. But Hitler declared war on the US, so he outsmarted himself and made it impossible for the right wing to argue against fighting him. Another bold gamble by Hitler than went badly wrong.
The guy is a historian, he makes videos about things he can verify actually happened. If he starts giving light to conspiracy theories he would lose his credibility
This was a common talking point for my Grandmother. Her husband was a pilot associated with Gen Clark and the European, North African, and Italian campaigns under him fly reconnaissance missions. They both met and were friendly with Patton although I am not aware that he had actually ever served with them directly. I cannot recall who he was flying for (command) for the invasion of Germany proper. She was absolutely convinced that his accident was actually murder and would argue a case for it till just before she died.
Patton began to see what is not allowed to be seen. He was going to be vocal about it too, and given his status as a respected general, people would have listened to him. Once you understand this, its easy to conclude that he was relieved of his vital functions by a certain group who are too powerful to be spoken of openly in any way that is not rooted in praise and support.
Big brain comment
yeah he hated the bolshevik small hats
@@lupaswolfshead9971as should everyone.
@@bubdubs5294 yeah, but that's not all of that group. Everyone should hate the elites that manipulate the world
Amen brother in christ ✡️
“we fought the wrong enemy”. This is the reason
But the Nazis hated the USA.
A bankers war
@@dragosstanciu9866 Not its people, just the politics.
He knew who the real enemy was just as captain Archibald Ramsey did.
@@dragosstanciu9866 no just who was running the USA, 😉
" I prefer a German Division in front of me , than a French Division behind me." General Patton
Not to speak about a whole Greek division behind him , the horror....
" I say quotes he never said to receive internet points " Cumbrain Aldo Fitla
"Meme untill they cry, then make memes about them crying" -Heinz Guderian
"The NKVD send their regards" -Drunk American truck driver
Which is such a dick thing to say since I think the French taught Patton how to fight in WW1.
We the public will never know. It would not surprise me the least if this man was murdered. After all look at all the suspicious deaths since. Thanks for sharing.
For some reason I've always had doubts about Patton's death...
I heard he and Elvis are doing well.
Patton didn't like jews and said we fought the wrong enemy... how right he was.
I’m sure he’s a very spritely 139 year old.
That’s what happens when you start talking about the Semitic influence
Here in the Czech republic he is a legendary and respected figure to this day for his anti-soviet stance and attempt to push eastwards and liberate the country before Soviets do. Of course his role and the fact that he got all the way to Pilsen, refuting the idea that Central Europe was liberated entirely by Russians, was covered up and virtually illegal to say for 45 years. During the communist era, there was even a widely known underground rock song that goes "I insist that Pilsen was liberated by Patton".
My father ended WWII in Pilsen. I'm guessing he must have been with Patton after reading your comment. He was a 2nd lieutenant. He had an indian head insignia patch on his shoulder.
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@f4ust85 You might want to consider looking up Operational Unthinkable which wasn't released till 1998. Winston pushed for this in about June 1945 ( a square deal for Poland) likely to enforce at the time the recently signed Yalta Agreement. There was Polish and Czech fighter pilots who helped defend Britain in the Battle of Britain who had escaped their own countries when they had fallen to Germany. In June 1941 Hitler ordered Operation Barbarossa to invaded the Soviets, Stalin turned to the allies for help, Stalin agreed to release the Polish military Stalin had in prisons since Stalin invaded Poland to fight under British against the Germans, Stalin agreed then there would be an independent Poland. Only when Germany surrendered when the Polish men who returned to Poland were persecuted, jailed and killed by the Soviets. The Soviets couldn't be trusted then, the same for the Russians today.
@@franceyneireland1633 I am of course well aware of that and find it equally bizarre and hilarious. The sheer idea that he (Churchill) could have any kind of military success against the Red Army machine in mid-1945 when he had one third of the forces on the continent was absurd. Moreover, the Poles that Stalin still mentioned in political talks were long burried in Katyn or dying in forced-labour farms in Kazakhstan, he simply didnt want to admit that he wiped them off, read Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder for details. But the idea that "hot" conflict is inevitable and approaching has been actively promoted in Central Europe until mid-1950s by Western media such as Radio Liberty/Free Europe/Voice of America and even led to various unfortunate excesses and local uprisings that of course in turn recieved zero western support and were destined to fail. People in early 1950s really expected its a matter of months. A good example are the Mašín brothers who set up an underground network and literally blasted their way into West Germany with guns in their hands and joined US special forces, wanting to soon return on an American tank - only to be bitterly disappointed that no such plans or eventuality ever existed and it was all just propaganda and empty posturing. They havent returned to this day.
My grandfather met him and shook his hand in Stockholm one month before he died.
Your grandfather killed Patton? Lol
Does your grandfather celebrate hannukah?
Hope he didn't carry an umbrella with him
My grandfather married A. Hitler and Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker.
@@kantenklaus9753 calling bs
Assassination by 20mph traffic collision? Who the hell would think that up?
Oh say the same one that had a mafia night club owner walk into a police station and shoot a self proclaimed “patsy” for running his mouth too much.
I always like to hit like for comments made but, Dr. Mark this is an all day job with your videos. Hope you realize how enjoyed they are!!
I love how in a span of a few years Patton's views on the Russians went from being an embarrassment to being the norm
People were pissed about communism but they tried to be diplomatic about it. Patton was just too straight to the point.
The Bolsheviks created what we know as the Soviet Union, very few if anyone knows it wasn't 'Russians' who overthrown the Russian Empire in 1917 and even created the 'Red Army', I wonder why that is? Maybe it's due to that 'influence' in the media that Patton spoke about, which is still very much alive today.
Most people in the west, including the politicians and top brass from the western allied countries, always knew exactly what the soviets were like, but they had too be diplomatic about the delicate situation they were now faced with. Patton definitely wasn't.
@@afkorey2151 And who created the Bolsheviks? who financed them and so on. you have to dig deeper and you realise thats still going on today.
@@afkorey2151 The Russian Empire that kept the country of Russia was overthrown by Russians and not only the Bolsheviks had the vast majority of Russians supported the Bolsheviks the Bolsheviks themselves were majority Russian indeed, however they were ethnically diverse.
You don't just end up 50 miles from where you are supposed to be when you are on duty. I think allegations of foul play are at minimum warranted.
Absolutely! BTW if you're related to Heidi & Andrea, I went to grade school with them! 💝
I don't know. I thought quite a bit of malarkey was tolerated, with the war just being won and all.
More than that, car accidents typically don't cause pulmonary edema, or heart failure...Especially when it was not even present at the time of the crash; Immediately diagnosed with only a Stethoscope...Literally the FIRST LESSON in medical school! MURDER! What DOES cause pulmonary edema/heart failure; POISONING!
@@LesSharp Not "that" kind of malarkey; He realized the TRUTH; Banksters, and crooks start wars to send OTHER PEOPLES KID'S to DIE for a PROFIT! That's why the "fools" comment...Mothers get their children back in boxes( If they are lucky), and a few very rich men, get even RICHER off of their blood! Name a SINGLE modern POLITICIAN that carried a rifle in the war that they started? NONE!
@@brentfarvors192 You've nailed it squarely, Brent. I always said "The CFR only plan wars; they never fight in them." I'm guessing you are familiar with the Council on Foreign Relations, hmm? 😭😒🐍
Patton was the only one that truly understood how dangerous the Soviets were. He understood that if they were not stopped while United States was on a war posture that they would dominate Europe and Asia.
Brother When You Find The Time Look Up The Heartland Theory
Not the only one. Google operation unthinkable
@@sehu1291 Just When I Thought It Couldn't Get Any Deeper. Time To Pour A Drink
Patton didn't like jews and said we fought the wrong enemy... how right he was.
Absolutely not the only one, the US was already on their way to preparing the cold war long before ww2 ended. The difference between Patton and many more political figures like Roosevelt was the rhetoric he used. Like seen in this video, he had a view of Russians that was similar to how the Nazis saw them, as inferior human beings, even elevating german citiens above russians. He saw communism as a threat not only because it would hurt people who lived there, but because he essentially saw it as a rival religion that must be crusaded against. This is where he went wrong, and it's absurd to me that I see so many people blindly defending him in this comment section with absolutely no regard to either this or the fact that he was essentially using his army for personal errands, and that he literally permitted the use of war crimes.
My grandfather fought under him in Sicily and also believed he was assassinated because of his hatred for the Soviet Union. He was a no bs guy but his love for his country and freedom was unmatched. He was right about the Soviets too. Rip George, thank you for taking care of my grandpa and warning everyone about the Soviet Union.
I think Pattons' love of self was stronger than his love of country Otherwise he would not have behaved as he did
My uncle (1920-2002) fought under him, too. He said he was difficult, but he liked him very much.
The United States has a peculiar track record of “unlucky” undesirable leaders who pass under “totally normal” circumstances.
Nonsense.
I think you've misplaced this: Allende, Sankara, Castro (survived) etc. The US assassinates any popular movement not serving capital & racism
@@KcarlMarXs Yeah, racism and money are the answer to everything. That's totally why the US spent all that money fighting Germans and Russians.
Don’t you find it telling that we have the derogatory term “conspiracy theorists “ but no “coincidence theorists”?
@@gourmetwaters6916 When did the US fight Russians? Never, that's when.
" We've defeated the wrong enemy " -- General George S. Patton Jr
he was an ideologue, he would have fought in the white army had he been born 20 years prior.
@@anasevi9456 He would? Now I like him even more
He admitted ,once the German surrendered, he wanted to re arm them, join the allied forces to them , and defeat the Russians .I wonder what this world be like if that would have happened. I will always believe he was murdered.
@@davidpowell6098 he was aware of Stalins purge of millions, prior to WW2
@@davidpowell6098 America could have gotten the Japanese on board against the communist as well invading Russia from the east.
There are people that have speculated that Patton may have been suffering from some sort of illness or even brain damage toward the end of WWII. Patton had famously suffered numerous concussions in his life having been thrown from his horse a number of times. Brigadier General Oscar Koch, Patton's intelligence officer supposedly stated that Patton seemed confused at times after the war. It's all speculation but it would explain a lot of his erratic behavior.
He excelled at War and didn't enjoy everyday life. He was made to be on a Battlefield
"The difference between genius and insanity is measured only by success." - Elliott Carver
or wealth
That's a good quote
You quote a James Bond movie character? Thanks.
@@alfa-psi I think that's what was said by the commenter. Beware the authoritarian. All of them, without exception.
Actually, no. Many corrupt @$$h0les have purloined or suppressed the work of greater, more adept and inventive, creative people. The ones who think outside the box, or shift the inside contents of "the box" are willing to be more outre' (than the stodgily prosaic) and thus, "ccentrics, and thus also more vulnerable to exploitation and intellectual properties Scientific discovery thefts. Boo! Lisa Rae Rousseau a.k.a. Lisa R.R.McGuire-Smith, writer, mother, wife, artist.
My Dad was in the Army during WW2. He was in North Africa. One day he was sitting on the ground with his back against a tree. General Patton approached. My Dad started to get up. Patton said, don't. By the way, my Dad was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action. He very rarely talked about it, but I read the citation. He was a hero. This was before cell phones.They communicated by wire. My Dad laid the wire. From the Citation, his unit was under heavy fire. The enemy kept shooting out the communication line. His unit was , in effect, isolated. They were in a forward position, under heavy fire with no outside communication. My Dad found a way around the shooting.. He laid the wire and was able to restore contact with the main unit
Im a hero too
@@kubaAk47 your generation is cut from a different cloth... is it because you came out of the closet? So heroic
@@Hosidius Everybody who is wearing uniform in this country is automaticly a hero. Dont you know that? Dont you wach fox news?
I was in ww2 as well full stop.
@@kubaAk47 say who
His home was around the corner from my childhood home in San Marino CA. We got to tour it when I was a kid. My grandfather fought under him at the end of the war in The Rhineland Campaign. It seems to me that he was possibly assassinated because he understood the workings of the Kazarian Mafia.
These presentations are just wonderful.
Patton wasn’t wrong about the Soviets... look how out of control they were at the end of and after WW2.
They were also traumatized by Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, and America's heavy involvement in Europe after the war aroused a lot of very understandable paranoia on the part of the Russians.
@@Diabetic_Chicken69 Had it not already been agreed upon that Greece would fall under the American and British spheres of influence?
Winston Churchill tried, to no avail, to make FDR see the threat of the Russian Commies. After an all day meeting with Stalin, Churchill asked him about starving the Ukrainians and Stalin shrugged it off. See Churchill: A Life by Martin S. Gilbert.
@@lawsonj39 Stalin and his Commies were WORSE than the Nazis. They murdered many more millions in the gulags than the Nazis did in the death camps. Stalin was also more unhinged than Hitler was. The only difference were their victims.
@@white-dragon4424 yeah and if Hitler got his holding in Soviet territory like he wanted the genocides there would be far worse than that is I would say the nazis were worse by a lot except for Stalin we was quite close for the atrocities
My grandfather who served in WWII went to his grave insisting Patton was terminated. By whom was one of his favorite topics to discuss
Gods chosen people?
Ben Gurion...
@curtis allen Zionism is the Problem KZhead The king David's hotel bombing and The Sergeant's Affair...
@curtis allen with all due respect, hasn't britain been a vassel of the rothschilds since the bank of london? So gods chosen people
@Robert Freisler sabbatai zevi sir?
When your general behaves and speaks the type of language of the enemy with whom you are at war and begins to act on own motives outside supreme command, there is one hell of a serious problem.
Great work, I love the reporting and view.
On the day Patton died, he had been improving and he was due to be transferred. His nurse checked on him and he was in good spirits. She went to run some errands. When she returned, Patton was dead, having died from pulmonary edema. Very strange indeed.
And you would not be in good spirits with pulmonary edema and it doesn't just suddenly come on. It is a slow debilitating death.
Similar to Princess Diana. EMS at first say she was gonna survive then at the hospital some strange people came by....and then she died.
This kind of thing happens all the time. Patient seems to improve, people become hopeful, but the improvement was temporary.
@Womb Raider He's here to spread left-wing rhetoric the same way I'm here to spread right-wing rhetoric. He's just too much of a sperg to pull it off. Nobody cares about your lengthy youtube essays, Lee. All of us here know the US Govt is guilty as sin.
@@oregrug2201 well said
If ever a man deserved to have over 1 mil subscribers it is Felton. A living legend.
I always refer him whenever I watch any war documentaries. Nobody complained or said a bad word yet. I'm so glad I discovered this channel. Made quarantine easier for sure
I’ll be back
So it's not Pewdiepie. Interesting.
Nazi lover he is loving Himmler and Goering etc.
He loves Nazis Felton
Ok but can we appreciate that cool ass helmet he’s always wearing, just seems very iconic to me
My dad was a pilot and served in three wars . WW2, Korean and Vietnam. He served 33 years and loss many of his friends. He was on the corner of the street when General Patton funeral procession passed by . He had several stories of Patton , several of the same things this professor has talked about. I love the work this professor does. Everything he puts out is interesting. I love history especially European history and WW2 history. My dad is 94 and is still taking care of his own business.
Does your dad know we fought the wrong enemy?
@@ken_caminiti I have no idea.
@@deborahkelly1489 I hope he's doing alright! Fighting the wrong enemy or not, he was defending his country.
@@zaramby Thank you very much he is doing great. I hope to go down to Florida when I get back on my feet from surgery. You have a good day/ evening.🙂
@@deborahkelly1489 your dad is still alive????
Why do records always go missing? If there wasn't something to hide then the records would still be there.
Nothing to hide. Missing paperwork is common in all bureaucracies.
That’s just simply not true… it was the middle of a war records are not the top priority by a long shot. Also damage time and human error always account for the vast majority of lost records.
@@mizzouranger134 There were plenty of witnesses who saw the accident, who cared for Patton in hospital. If someone deliberately got rid of any records to cover up a serious crime, that person could have been severely punished if found. Why would anyone risk that?
@@leezaslofsky4438 You definitely have some sort of emotional attachment to this. I've seen so many paragraphs (including a massive essay of yours on an above comment) about all of this. "If someone deliberately got rid of any records to cover up a serious crime, that person could have been severely punished if found. Why would anyone risk that?" Why do people commit any crimes at all? Money. OR like in your case... ideology, the same reason you're obsessed with this comment section. Because human beings have a Will to Power and will exercise their agendas no matter what.
Let me remind you that during WW2 we almost killed the president on board a battleship because the crew accidentally loaded live torpedoes. On top of this, Kennedy's brain is still missing. So is it really not that hard to say that these things just.. happen?
It must be kept in mind, there is no one that is invulnerable, everyone is replaceable.
I hate KZheadrs who refuse to think critically, Not all conspiracy theories are wrong, and not everyone who believes in them is a bad untrustworthy person And this channel is one of them.
Dr. Mark, I have never heard Patton’s voice before. Thank-you for this! I’ve only ever had to image his voice like George C. Scott’s portrayal.
Yeah, his real voice is quite a revelation. A little more high pitched and nasally than what I imagined.
His voice sounds effeminate
@@BadWebDiver George.... HE IS Patton!! (sorry!!) I find the real one a bit of a disappointment. His voice and his stature just don't measure up to George C. Scott.
sounds a bit like Donald Trump - even has the same lip movements
It was reminiscent of cartoonist Mel blanc and absolutely nothing like gcs
As a Pole I have to agree with Patton - we have lost the war...
The way the Poles were done in was unacceptable and the way we put remembrance over history has to end
If the Germans had won, you wouldn't be a Pole. You wouldn't be. And nor would I.
@@japeking1 Hear me out on this but perhaps the op was referring to Patton's statements as being defensive of Western (European) civilization and vehemently anti communist. Look at the state of the US as well as Western Europe, especially with the mass migration and changing demographics. These people are no longer hiding their hatred towards us.
@@paulcoleman5512 "These people are no longer hiding their hatred towards us." Which people? And who are "us"? Throughout history all societies have grown, flowered, then faded. Demise always feels sad but is in fact just a stage in an ongoing process which we can do little to direct. And so far the attempts to direct society have been disastrous ( Sparta being a prime example, but Fascism, Communism, Xianity, and Nazism being other more recent glaring failures.)
@@japeking1 Which people? I'm pretty sure you know what their ethnicity and religion is. I'll give you a hint 'Bergs, Steins' etc. Every anti white article I've read, as well as NGO's whom promote and actually bring migrants from the third world are of that tribe. Also the West is currently being murdered shall we say. Diversity isn't a strength by any means, it has completely destroyed any and all cohesion that once used to exist. In order to get a better picture of what's coming and the future these 'elites' want try and watch a KZhead channel titled "Way of the World".
20 miles an hour, a broken neck, and a huge laceration on his head? Sounds a little fishy to me.
Have you ever hit your head while going at 20 mph? 😅 I guess not.
Patton ordered the medical staff to pull the plug on the ventilator that was keeping him alive. In 1945 they did not know how to fix a broken spine and with Patton being a General, he knew the injury was untreatable. Shortly after a Doctor figured out a way to fuse the spine of someone with a SCI (Spinal Cord Injury). That's why there are paraplegics and quadriplegics today.
Remember this was before the days of seat belts and air bags. A minor car accident today was no laughing matter back then. Also, coming to a sudden stop even at 20 mph can launch people.
@@dikferrari1396 yes
What's fishy is that no one was charged and the accident was considered a fender bender. In reality a drunk driver destroyed a car carrying a 4 star general. Eventually resulting in his death.
He was killed because he realized we fought on the wrong side and he spoke out. You cant say bad things about "them"
Can't imagine being jostled around in the back of one of those military ambulances with a broken neck for 50 minutes.
James Dean died in a similar way. He was loaded, breathing, into a station-wagon ambulance. That ambulance got in an accident. His head slammed the bulkhead - and he (further) broke his neck.
@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking God damn
I was surprised to find his snow covered grave in an American cemetery in Europe. Luxembourg, I think. Beautiful place.
Glad you visited his Grave.
Yes, did you happen to notice the German cemetery opposite? At least he is buried next to his friends and foe. Like he wished, and not in Arlington.
Samu Crow It seems Patton himself may have agreed if that quote tumbling around the internet is authentic.
@@samucrow7564 They killed our people first and declared war on us first. We obviously were supporting the communists, but they shot first when they shouldn't have. Shame.
You'd think one would remember such a discovery, in such a 'beautiful' place, with a little more precision than 'Luxemburg, I think'.
My dad worshipped Patton. Accidents happen to important people too. Especially when they're drunk and driving around.
One thing for sure is hes the only person that died from an accident in back seat of a Cadillac at 20 mph.
"We fought the wrong enemy" - General Patton.
He wanted another war right after ww2, but against the Red Army. He was wrong. The US would have lost that one. Britain did not want to fight. The rest of Europe had been crushed and had nothing to fight with. The plan was to rearm the German army and use them to fight the Soviets. The same depleted German units that had been running away from the Soviets at top speed for a year. Germany had been reduced to using old men and young boys to try to defend Germany itself, and they were getting crushed like paper. Use THEM to fight the Soviets?
@@danielch6662 Patton would have had the A bomb to use on Moscow
@@fannybuster And how do you think those bombers would of gotten there? with Free Sky miles? The russian military had a vast air defese force.
@@Holret The B29 could fly higher than and ground defense could shoot.Russia would have been toast
@@michaelsmith-ec8uh We also could have attacked the Soviet Union from Japan and China. There were three million Japanese troops in China at the time. The USSR would have been fighting a war on two fronts, three if you count invading from the middle east/Iran. With the A-Bomb on our side the Soviets would have been destroyed.
I find it interesting that when people today think of General Patton they tend to think of George C. Scott's performance but in reality Patton sounded more like Elmer Fudd lol.
I recently watched Patton for the first time and then went and listened to the real Patton speak.....I was blown away lol
George Scott was a brilliant actor. Patton brutalized US veterans who marched on DC to cash their war bonds. To hell with him.
@@boathemian7694 lol okay guy......while I do not agree with everything about Patton, I still respect the man. He fought in 3 different Theatre’s of war. The Nazis feared him and for good reason, and while brash and outright dumb in some of the things he has said or believed. His ability to command troops was important to winning the war. So while he was kind of a dick, he was still a badass.
@@boathemian7694 While Patton was there (so was Eisenhower) it was MacArthur who ignoring orders advanced on the Veterans.
@@jamesmcgrath1952 Absolutely correct. In fact, Patton disliked the orders to oppose the vets.
Interesting analysis and commentary on one of history's greatest generals. Thank you very much for examining the alleged conspiracy behind Patton's death carefully and intelligently. I've never made a study of General Patton's death or even an in-depth study of Patton's life and career. That having been said, he's long been my favorite U.S. Army combat commander of the Second World War. Great job with putting this objective and open-minded video together! Andy McKane, 10 February 2024, Maunaloa, Hawaii.
I wonder if that truck shared the jeep's steering design. It had a well-known flaw which could force the wheels to suddenly turn left, if one were not gripping the wheel tightly.
The “accident” didn’t kill anyone else but Gen. Patton. That fact alone is suspicious. Were his injuries survivable? Then, he improved only to take a turn for the worse. Maybe it was a stroke of bad luck, but the missing details of the wreck add to suspicion. And all the other factors, and no autopsy. One of those things we’ll never know for sure, but it doesn’t sound right.
good riddance
He was a old man when he died
Ask what Patrons son thinks.
Poisoned just like Stonewall Jackson
@@bluesky6985poor old stonewall. Fragged.
_"I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind."_
Brilliant
So true
Plenty of British troops said that but replaced French with American.
Daaaaaamn!
@@knightowl3577 That the British got off the beaches at Dunkerque was due in large part to the extraordinary bravery and sacrifice of the French who held the line against overwhelming odds. Read the German accounts of French soldiers (not the generals).
Like many of us, Patton lacked a filter.
Patton was a fantastic general on the macro scale, but his decisions on the micro scale such as troop etiquette, morale, and battlefield improvisations were downright dangerous
My father was a WWII fighter pilot in the Pacific. He was a career military officer in the USN until 1959. He always believed Patton was assasinated as opposed to an accidental death. For what its worth....
Let’s be honest here though, don’t you think that part of that may be because it’s hard to believe that a minor car accident killed a man as legendary as him? I’d be in disbelief too, but that’s because it would make me think about my own mortality even more. It’s hard to believe that a man as great as him could die in such a mundane accident.
@@Sniperboy5551 It could be, since everything is possible. Some folks just are more curious than others and want to learn more if there's more, while most folks just don't care and they just bite the ''official'' story for absolutely everything and they laugh at those who are trying to find out what really happened and call them crazy conspiracy theorists. I'd rather be called a crazy conspiracy theorist, than an NPC who believes every official narrative and doesn't even try to think or to connect the events or whatever and accept it as it is. Isn't everyone who goes against the ''norm'' and what is ''accepted' called crazy? If Patton really was assassinated, what would you expect them to say? The military especially are well known for having their secrets and their favorite phrase to the public being - ''that's all you need to know''.
My dad was a navigator in the Army Air Force, fighting in the Pacific. He understood that Patton was killed in an auto accident.
@@Foxtrot-jr5qu please us army known screwed killings of folks not well executed assassination . That oss or cia or nsa
Why because army quiet effective assignations?
I find it strange that driver of the truck wasn't charges with something.
Grinning like a fool and he gets off Scot free
It's pretty much just the standard way cops treated drink driving back then. "Ok mate just drive carefully back home, then tuck yourself into bed with a nice Bonox. Take the back roads next time"
Story I heard from my Dad who was in Third Army during and post WWII. That Patton himself called off the MP's. That was what the story was at the time. Guess there was quite a bit of drunken unauthorized joy ridding going on after the war.
In the earliest accounts of this accident ,IMMEDIATELY following the incident. PATTON directed that NO CHARGES were to be brought against the truck driver. I believe all this hullabalou about assination is an attempt to SELL BOOKS.
@@edwardhollon3914 I agree about the book's. But again according to Dad, Patton had lined things up in such a way. Rearming the Germans and kicking the Soviet's butt. Could have happened easier than not. Was why Patton got transferred to 15th Army. The recovery he was experiencing in hospital, then not, is suspicious. Plus the NKVD was afraid of him. They pulled off the murder of Polish Officers in Katyan Forrest and it didn't come out till the 90's I believe. That it was true the Soviets not the Germans did that.
Another book not mentioned here is "Killing Patton" by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard (2014). My father loaned me this book, although I have not had a chance to delve into it.
In my opinion, the book doesn't live up to its billing.
O'Reilly isn't much of an historian. There are better books around.
The Bill O’Reilly? 😂😂
@@jeffrorichard2765Yes, the one and only.
@@jeffrorichard2765 The one and only (thank god).
Ok, I'm in. My grandfather also commanded a tank unit under Patton. Somewhere in N. Italy, there was a logjam of military vehicles and he was trying to direct traffic when Patton walked up and relieved him to return to his tank. It was even in the movie
note: If you are an important political/ military figure NEVER go on any "hunting trips"...
But if you are a young soldier on a joyride, riding an army truck 50 miles from where you actually had to travel,.. You can have as many accidents as you want. No charge will ever be filed,...
Reminds me of Dick Cheney. Never stand next to him if he handles a shotgun.
basically every big wig should avoid hunting.. would You miss a chance to Hunting Accident nancy peloci? i wouldnt ..soo we dont hunt here lol safer for every one..
@Honkler Bear: ....or never enter an Invitation to be driven in a Cabriolet, especially in Dallas....;-)
EUIV flashbacks to max stat heirs dying in hunting accidents...
Men like Patton are hated until you need them, then once their done with him, you hate him again!
So true.
Pretty much. Effective assholes never stop being assholes, they just increase their efficiency to compensate.
*they're
Exactly. Look at Bomber Harris
We need more like Patton and strong military men that will stand behind men like Patton!!
Patton knew what he was doing. He lived his life. Did a job. Then he left. His delivery is so Donald
"Nothing was said about a conspiracy until thirty years after his death." Maybe not officially, but it was a well-known and oft discussed subject amongst the veterans who served under him. My grandfather was wounded at Bastogne and believed it was a conspiracy almost from day one. He wasn't the only one. Amongst Patton's men, it was a relatively common belief. Generally, it was believed he wanted to get into politics and the powers-that-be wouldn't allow that to happen. I can date my grandfather's assertions personally to the late 1970s. I'm 50 years old and I know he was telling me this in 78 or 79. I know he'd never read the book, nor did he see the movie. In fact, the last movie he saw in the theater was "Patton" in 1970 or 1971. My mother said that he had told her this when she was a child in the late 50s or early 60s.
It is really astonishing that he died after all the war operations in car accident. It is simply not to believe. Probably he was dangerous for after war situation because he was not typ that you could manipulate.
your grandfather was one of Patton's men? if so tell me do you believe he was murdered or assassinated because I'm not sure about that really Patton was a hot head and got in trouble many times for his month and anger you really think anyone was worried about him don't think so
@@charlestorruella8591 I don't know. I never said anything about what I believe. Read what I said. The narrator said that the "Patton was murdered" accusation only became a thing thirty years after he died because of a book. That simply isn't true. I was just adding to the information that the video was conveying. Whether or not Patton would have been electable isn't something that I know for sure. What I do know is that a certain segment of the population idolized Patton and the political and military establishment hated him. Many of the soldiers he commanded and some civilians believed he might run and the powers that be had him eliminated. I think that is certainly possible, as no one in the political establishment would have wanted Patton anywhere near D.C. So, to answer your question, I don't know if he was murdered to prevent a possible run for office, but my grandfather and many other people believed it long before the book mentioned in the video advanced the idea.
@@vidavuk1649 Assassinating someone with a car accident is extremely inefficient. Especially when they survive and are sent to a hospital. A plot like that requires way too many people to be involved with it. It’s a preposterous plan, and I seriously doubt any professional assassin would come up with plan that would involve so many different points of failure and so many people that would increase the chances of it being uncovered.
It is what I alwayns thought
My dad spoke of Patton's killing long before 1974. Many men from that time thought the same thing. no accident
Also he's being rather condescending, he usually is above that sort of thing
@@Android3008 - to mention first discussed in 1974 shows he is clueless.
@@kosmicman2011 Try being rational, you "Patton was murdered" nutz seem to forget that you lack any evidence.
Could you imagine Patton dealing with these kids today?
He was clearly talking about fighting the Soviets. He's referring to the fact that the US and the UK capitulated to most of Stalin's demands because they knew that Stalin could have taken all of Europe if he wanted to. Stalin had 14.3 mi high morale soldiers (before counting the newly conquered armies) and had immediately started dismantling factories east of Nuremberg and moving them beyond Moscow and the Ural Mountains. Now, he'd have to deal with a massive resistance movement, but it was absolutely in the cards. One thing which isn't clear to people today is that the deployment of the atomic bombs had one role, and one role only: scare the bejeezus out of Stalin. It had nothing to do with pushing Japan to submission; Japan had no anti-aircraft defense and the day of the bombing three others cities were similarly destroyed just on conventional bombs. They were meant to tell Stalin: sure, you have enough anti-aircraft to oppose the RAF and USAAF, but do you have enough AA to guarantee not a single bomber will make it to Moscow? NATO doctrine from day one was deploying nuclear artillery shells because they knew they could not beat an advancing Soviet army back with conventional weapons.
“Patton spoke his mind, people tend to hate that
Sounds like someone else universally hated by the elites
@@johnburns4017 About what? He was right about the Soviet Union. They should have been dealt with at that time. Would have saved Eastern Europeans and Russians 50 years of misery... and a very near miss nuclear war in 1962.
That is actually a requirement in the US military. Considering they are under a very rigid command structure they are subject to reprimand/punishment to undermine any superior. Even generals are subject to this strict censorship as long as they are still in service. Even MacArthur had to learn that no matter his experience he cannot undermine his superior in public. If he had disagreed with his his superior (and by that time it was only the president) then he could only say so confidentially to him.
Of course they didn't want him speaking his mind during such an extremely delicate situation, of having two heavily armed, battle hardened armies facing each other in Germany. No doubt all the politicians and generals from the west, shared his views about the soviets, but understood the diplomatic situation at hand. Remember, rightly or wrongly, the post war sphere of influence map had already been drawn up, way before the fall of Berlin. They didn't need an ego driven, war hungry US general, throwing any matches on a, worsening by the day relations wise, tinder box. I don't think he was murdered for it either by the way.
@@SH-lb1nu are you referring to 45? If so I can tell you I'm not an elite and abhor the drivel trump spews from his lying gaping maw. If he's speaking his mind then all I can say is it's a mind totally bereft of an iota of morality or intelligence.
9:30 I think he misquoted patton, this is the quote I found, "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." I couldn't find the quote Felton used.
Really? That changes things significantly.
@@archlich4489 Google it, it's the only thing that comes up. I tried googling what felton wrote and that doesn't come up. It's possible he said both and what felton found is too obscure to come up.
lol if thats the real quote i dont think i can take anything else in these vids seriously again
@@cabin_fever I'm just saying that's the quote that comes up, page after page when I enter the keywords that Felton said. It's entirely possible he said what felton quoted, but is obscure and didn't come up in search. Try searching for it and let me know what you find.
@@annereilley4892 You'd probably need to go to a library to find local articles from that day. Surely they would write about a general calling fallen troops fools.
The Patton museum down in Fort Knox, Ky is an amazing Tank museum my father took me too multiple times as a kid teaching me all about Patton. He was a bad ass, and one of our greatest generals. You have to wonder how different our political landscape would have been had Patton not died when he did.
Mark Felton is the best.
My Grandfather who fought in WW1 and worked on PT boats in WW2 believed right away that Patton was taken out by the US because he was causing international issues and they knew they could never shut him up. Many of his former solider colleagues felt the same way.
My uncle who served under Gen. Patton and years later the CIA in Vietnam always said the general was murdered.
@Steve Acho shut up tankie. We all know damn well he died because of the gov
It was very strange that the accident that killed him was not investigated throughly.
Hmmmm👃
Reportedly, it wasn't the accident that killed him.
He was poisoned in the hospital.
We defeat the wrong Enemy...... George Patton
Hmmmmm.......the USa Government covering up something....never.......
Nice one yet again Mark. Your explanation settles it for me!
My mom was in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Payton’s Army liberated. Her name is listed in a book written by another surviving prisoner who was a lawyer educated enough to write it “Greek Women in Nazi Camps” What she described in that book is what my mother described.The only difference is the author was taken out of the camp in a Death March while my mother was left behind.They tried to gather and remove the prisoners but left because Pattons Army was just about there. My mother said they all got up from bed and looked out the window and saw the last German solder the older or oldest one she said he was, leaving the camp with gate open. The first thing they all did was run down to the kitchens to get food. The author of that book was on that march and survived by escaping while on that march.
My Grandfather served under Patton. Always had high praise for him. Told me about Patton personally pinning on his Purple Heart, then telling him to "Get up off your ass and get back to work!". Grandad always chuckled when he told that story.
Your like a breath of fresh air! Nice to read some facts. All this other BS in the comments was fouling my lungs. I am living a life of 'comparative' freedom, because of men like your Grandfather and Patton. Praise to them both.
Patton’s men HATED him. With a passion. I’m not sure your grandpa remembers it correctly or perhaps time and nostalgia has modified his opinion. His men feared him more than the enemy.
@@C0wb0yBebop What a fn liberty. Telling someone you don't know, how their Grandpa (who you also don't know) just might have got his memories crossed, about a war that you never fought in. What a T.W.A.T you are!
@@C0wb0yBebop ah yes so you are the representative of all the men who served under him throughout the entire war? Didn’t think so.
You'd had to have met my Grandfather. He was a bigger hardass than Patton ever could've been. I'm sure that some of his men hated him. Maybe most, I wasn't there. He certainly didn't seem to care much about the butcher's bill. But those same traits that caused people to dislike him endeared him to others. My grandfather was a hard-nosed, hard driving, often angry man. I did/do love him but his children didn't like him much.
I wish my grandfather was alive to see your channel. He would have loved the clear explanation and details of your stories
No negative reprimands , demotions , fines , penalties for drunk Sargeant who drove into his Patrons staff car😡😡😡
A drunk solider 50 miles from his post, crashes into a general, who eventually dies from his injuries, and what happened to Thompson the driver?
My uncle fought under Patton in the 3rd army. He loved Patton. I’ve read my things and heard many more theories about his death. There were too many of the theories not really taken seriously. There if I’m correct in my reading about the truck driver and Payton’s driver causing the accident, only the truck driver was sent out of the country. There are too many inconsistencies. If you don’t trust him recall him to the states.
A convenient death for an inconvenient man?As for whether it was an accident or murder,I can’t say for certain.But I’m sure many of his enemies breathed a sigh of relief when he died.
The ones that were left
@@Atti19216 he died in 1945
@@chrishandsome4267 yes and before he died in 1945 he helped defeat a lot of his enemies. Or was enemy killing not allowed until 46?
He was a genius in war, no matter what faux pas came out of his mouth. I believe he was murdered with all my heart.
@@sheilagravely5621 How was he a "genius"? He was a charismatic war leader, that's true. But what did he do to be rated a "genius"?