Patton's .357

[The War Wagon]

Watched "Patton" again this morning, and got to looking him up on the computer again.

Nothing new here - just a picture;

Because it's just THAT damn cool...

 

[ifithitu]

That's very nice!

 

[ViperJeff]

Patton is one of the people from history that would have made a lifetime to meet and talk too

 

[The War Wagon]

Patton is one of the people from history that would have made a lifetime to meet and talk too

My great uncle was a CSM under Patton during WWII. He was not much different, if the movie is anywhere near accurate.

 

[kwo51]

That is why the CIA killed him, he would have been president if he lived.

 

[The War Wagon]

That is why the CIA killed him, he would have been president if he lived.

Nope. I don't think he'd of taken the job, if they'd given it to him by acclamation. The west was still TRYING to play kissy-face with the USSR (which they would do, until the Berlin blockade and the development of Russian hydrogen bomb, a few years later); Patton was a definite impediment to THAT, and as he was NOT as strong a proponent of "de-Nazification" as TPTB liked, he had to be "removed."

And so he was.

 

[kwo51]

After he got done with USSR he would be the MAN. Hard to imagine were we would be if he would have finished..

 

[SilvrSRT10]

You guys just learn't me somethin'.

Articles: The Mysterious Death of Gen. George S. Patton

 

[kwo51]

The truth is stranger than fiction.