Car accident averts WWIII?

[WrightAvia]

Conspiracy? Was there a guy on a grassy knoll waiting to snap Patton's neck after the accident? Would Patton have led the charge to invade Russia after WWII, leading to a third world war?

Driver in Patton's Fatal Crash Dies

WHITE LAKE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- The World War II soldier who was driving Gen. George Patton's limousine when the car crashed, causing injuries that killed the four-star general days later, has died.

Horace L. Woodring died Sunday of heart failure. He was 77.

Woodring, who was a 19-year-old Army private first class when he became Patton's driver, said President Dwight D. Eisenhower didn't blame him for Patton's death.

"Ike told me no way was I responsible," Woodring said in 1994. "It made me feel great. ... I never question myself about the accident."

Woodring was taking Patton on a hunting trip in Germany on Dec. 9, 1945 when another vehicle turned in front of the Cadillac limousine. Patton's neck was broken and he died 12 days later.

Woodring was a resident of White Lake Township near Pontiac and a longtime auto broker.

Jinger DeMent, Woodring's daughter, said her brother was named John Patton Woodring in honor of the general.

"My father ... thought (Patton) was one of the most terrific people he had ever met in his life, such a unique individual."

Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[Pilotadjuster]

Nope

No conspiracy there. Patton had already been relieved by Ike and would have been on his way back to the states and probable retirement when he died.

Definitive Patton biography-- "patton" by Ladislas Farago.

Not that GSP couldn't have driven all the way past Moscow, given half a chance, possibly saving us 50 years of cold war....

 

[flywithastick]

Re: Nope

Not that GSP couldn't have driven all the way past Moscow, given half a chance, possibly saving us 50 years of cold war....

Being an Aggie, I'm pretty sure Gen. Patton could have taken care of the situation, if called upon. Ironic, but just think of the progress we made under the competition with the Rooskies. Humans need competition to stay at their best. Communism/humanism proponents fail to account for this.

"Give me an army of West Point graduates, and I'll win a battle. Give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war."

- General George S. Patton, Jr.

"There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled $#it in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-God-D@mned-Bi+ch named Georgie Patton!"

- General George S. Patton, Jr (June 5, 1944)

http://www.kilroywashere.org/05-Images/05-Misc-Patton.jpg

 

[LR25]

"God help me, I do love it so"

 

[Pilotadjuster]

GSP

I see Fly has the REAL transcript of the Patton speach...

Also--the movie, which was meant to be anti-war (failing miserably at that), had the men standing passively and listening to him make that speach. The reality was they loved the speach and were laughing most of the way through. The man really new how to literally rally the troops.

not sure its accurate but my favorite from the movie--

"where ya goin general?"

(as he passes in his jeep)

"Berlin! I'm gonna personally shoot that paper-hangin son of a b!tch!"

 

[Salty Dog]

Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance...

 

[ozpilot]

My favourite Patton quote:

'You don't win a war by dying for you country, you win by making the other son-of-a-bi^tch die for his!"

 

[NookyBooky]

Patton, MacArthur, and Jenna Jameson-the three finest human beings too ever walk the face of the earth.

Hans Joachim-Marseille would have made the list too, but he flew for the wrong god **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** side. Doh!

 

[Galland]

Hans Joachim-Marseille would have made the list too, but he flew for the wrong god **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** side. Doh! [/B][/QUOTE]


...don't think he flew for the wrong side....

Na, was sagst Du dazu "NookyBooky" ? ( Don Gentile's plane wasn't it ?)

 

[NookyBooky]

Hans Joachim-Marseille would have made the list too, but he flew for the wrong god **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** side. Doh!

...don't think he flew for the wrong side....

Na, was sagst Du dazu "NookyBooky" ? ( Don Gentile's plane wasn't it ?) [/B][/QUOTE]

H.J. Marsielles' side lost. That, among a few "other things," makes them the wrong side, but thats a can of worms I don't want to open.


Kit Carson's Mustang, er 4 of kit carsons Mustangs were named NookyBooky I-IV. If I remember correctly, he had 18.5 swastikas on the side of his plane making him the highest scoring Pony Pilot in the 357th, which was Yeager and Bud Anderson's FG. He might of been the highest scoring Mustang pilot of the war, but I can not remember that one for sure.


Oh well, Enough history for me. It's friday, time to ........