AN OUTSTANDING FIELD COMMANDER DIED

The Death of a General: George S. Patton, Jr. | The National WWII Museum | New Orleans

General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.         
       

While some have mourned what was a tragic loss at the time,
others over the decades have theorized Patton’s death was
anything but an accident.

Fueling speculation that the accident involving a U.S. Army
truck was not an accident but a coordinated assassination.


 

General Patton’s Car Accident Remains Controversial Today
A soldier inspects the damage to the car General Patton was riding in when the accident that would prove fatal occurred.
The damage to the front end of the vehicle was substantial.

General Patton points to a distant objective while standing on the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.   His aide, Sergeant William Meeks, stands to the general’s left.
On the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.

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