Bill O'Reilly investigates WWII Gen. Patton's life and death
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2014
- The "O'Reilly Factor" host's new book "Killing Patton" brings the great Gen. George Patton to life with a fresh look at how he died. He speaks to "CBS This Morning" co-hosts about Patton's strange death and how there's more to the story.
Patton knew who the real enemy was.
And who is the quote on quote "real" enemy specifically is?
Is the real question.
How do you identify a enemy who operates in the shadows? Never revealing their identity and have influence over the entire world and have a endgame motive unknown to you?
*O Y V E Y*
@Tan Y.E. what does that mean?
@@whattawhaddaya6561 Stfu
Just like JFK, and now Trump.
Ex girlfriend of mine, her grandfather is around 100, he was one of Patton's favorite soldiers, he knew him personally.
So Do did my father Eisenhower was a trader he had Patton killed because Patton knew and had proof that Eisenhower let hitler go
I just read Killing Patton. The way our country treated this Great General was sad and atrocious and shameful!
Good thing the book is fiction.
@@executivedirector7467 but if it's not. What if he was killed by the oss organisation.
@@rickyj5547 What if the earth was flat? What if the Japanese won WW2?
Those are equally valid questions.....we already know the answer. Not every cockamamie theory is worth pursuing.
@@executivedirector7467 ...Not only is it not fiction, but he didn't go far enough. Patton was right to want to go after Russia, but he didn't understand that of the 384 Commissars who took over Russia after their revolution, 264 came from America, including Leon Trotsky who was a personal guest of New York banker Jacob Schiif, who actually controlled Russia until their chosen one, Stalin entered the picture. It was Schiff who ordered the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family. Lenin and Trotsky had no say in the matter.
@@rickyj5547real talk
My father was an army officer with the 4th armored division in WW2. The 4th was part of Patton's 3rd army. But before that my father served with Patton in the 1920's before he made general. I always thought it was neat that my dad new George Patton personally. My dad was wounded at the battle of Bastogne , but returned to action in time for the push into Germany. My dad died in 1946 from the internal injuries he had suffered at Bastogne.
May God Rest His Soul🙏🇺🇸...
❤🇺🇸God Bless your Dad and all the heroes of the Greatest Generation. They saved the world!!
It's a good thing that he fought for the globalist side and for homosexual special right- I'm just such a big fan of both. What a hero your father was!!
Thank you for your family's sacrifice.
I just finished reading "Killing Patton" and I thought it was a fascinating book!Bill O'Reilly and his writing partner Martin Dugard do a great job!I have read all his books and everyone I enjoyed!I love watching "The Factor" as well,I'm a big fan of his!I wish we had General Patton today fighting against our enemies!
william Milligan- O' Reilly never believed what he was saying on the Factor. He was only playing to a neglected demographic which had a void that he could fill. He is all about promoting himself period. I also used to like the guy but he began to gradually sell out.
Patton was a blistering, insightful, profane and unapologetic warrior who won every battle he engaged. The American people loved him while politicians (Truman - Eisenhower) feared and hated him.
There was no way that Truman was going to allow him to return to the U.S.
Had Patton lived, the Korean War would have had a much different outcome.
I doubt it. Look at what Truman did to General MacArthur.
sound like our current POTUS.
Not true.
Yes we could have won the Korean war if Patton had been the General
Richard Hoepfner Richard you are exactly right. The north Koreans were being supplied by red china there were only a few routes over the mountains that the Chinese could use. Mac author wanted to bomb these bridges and totally destroy them and save many American soldiers lives. The powers that be would not let him down these bridges because they were afraid he might bombed the Chinese side of the bridge. What a joke! War is war.
We need more Patton's. Esapically in Washington.
Chris Flocco Mattis was a great general as well
Long live the USSR and Comrade Stalin, death to America and Capitalism.
Jeff Doe Mattis is a globalist.
Nikita Kuznetsov can i ask if that’s the 1917 eagle on your pfp or the 1889?
Well said,a gen Patton admirer
Greatest General the USA ever had !!
You ever hear of Ulysses S. Grant?
Patton wasn't a good general.
@@markharrison2544 Right, he was simply the best general of WW2 and many other wars.
@@warriorfb2010 Hardly. He was a terrible general. He also praised the Holocaust.
@@markharrison2544 all he did was win, so explain
My Dad (who is buried in Arlington National Cemetery) agreed with Patton 100% that we should have continued on and attacked and defeated Stalin's Russia while we had our Army there in Germany.
There's something seriously wrong with the way we have been doing things in this country
Seriously wrong with people that give any credibility to what BO says about things like this.
Real talk
Had they listened to Patton, there never would've been a Cold War! A great American hero!
My PaPa loved Patton. He served in the 94th infantry 3rd Army at the Battle of the Bulge. He believed in Patton and believed OL Blood and Guts would get the boys home quicker. Patton knew who our enemies were.
Patton's driver didn't disappear. He went home to Kentucky and passed away in about 2003. Ike waited a long time to go visit Patton's grave. Patton knew too much and was considered a danger to the division of Europe which was the dream child of the New World Order.
General Patton was laid to rest at a US military cemetery in Luxembourg, just outside Luxembourg City, as I found out when I visited Luxembourg in June. The cemetery is a very moving, beautiful place and I would highly recommend a visit there. So although not buried at West Point,
He rests in the company of about six thousand soldiers and other military personnel whom he led.
Gen. Patton was a true hero that saved many U.S. soldiers lives by his decisive actions !
We Defeated The Wrong Enemy - George S Patton
then who was the real enemy? USSR? I don't think so !
They were
Patton praised the Holocaust: warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/general-george-s-patton-jr-death-final-days/
Joseph Stalin in the Commies murdered 85 million people and destroyed so many peoples lives they were the real enemy of World War II and George Patton was 100% right we fought the wrong enemy
@@haitaogao1290 There was no USSR at the time. You meant to say "Russia." They created the USSR in the ensuing years and that made them the enemy. It was called "The Cold War." You might have heard about it. LOL
We need more Generals like Gen Patton
Amen
Can you imagine Patton's opinion of Milley and today's Army.
I am a Brit but I sincerely believe that General George Patton was the greatest American who ever lived. I wish he was still with us.
He was murdered because our evil government, even then, was afraid he would run for president and win and they could not have that happen. He was a hero to a LOT of Americans.
He was not interested in politics.
CBS sits at a table and actually LAUGHS about the possible assassination of one of our generals.
What do you expect from the " Clinton Broadcasting System?"
Bobble heads
Shows you how ignorant they are.
That is because it is unresearched nonsense just to sell a book. Remember O'Reilly is the one that said on live TV, 'tide comes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that.' The man's stupidity is only exceeded by his arrogance.
Isn't it typical!? The news media is controlled. They don't know the truth if it slapped them in the face!
This is the only time I’ve watched CBS news, and this will be the only time; but this is fascinating.
For decades, stories like this were ridiculed, suppressed by the MSM and the publishing world. After the alternative media kept these stories and viewpoints alive for many decades, now, in recent years, these stories are not so ridiculous.
They are completely ridiculous, completely without foundation, and believed only by yahoos.
Target Patton is a much better book. They pulled the guards from his room. They meaning Ike, Bradly. They left him a sitting duck. Everything in target is fact checked, based on eye witness accounts, If the Russians did do it, most likely, they had US help. Patton was going to expose every mistake Ike did, including the stopping Patton from closing the Falaise gap, which allowed for the battle of the bulge and lengthening the war by at least 6 months.
It was very important that the American people didn't find out the real reason that WW2 was fought. The people in the USA had been lied to for decades before the War and those lies continued after the war. Ike was nothing but a political shill. Patton wasn't the first General that was assassinated to keep them silent. The Soviets and British killed Wladyslaw Sikorski , in a staged plane crash, because he gain information that proved that the Soviets murdered 20,000 Polish officers and intellectuals. This was going to split the Alliance by exposing the hypocrisy of the British in allying them selves with the Soviets. If the English people found out the truth they would never continue to support Churchills war.
People still don't know the lengths Churchill went to continue the war when it should have ended. The Bengal famine that killed millions, the destruction of French Warships with thousands aboard. ect. This war was all to maintain the economic elites control over nations via the international medium of exchange currency. Germany pulled itself out of the system and it's success was something that could not be allowed to exist. The rest of the nations of the world would have soon followed and the elites control over those nations would be gone.
When you evaluate all the reasons given for the war by the British, it just doesn't hold up to objective analysis. The major reason given was that Germany attacked Poland. Well the USSR also attacked Poland from the East but the British not only did not go to war with them, but made them allies.
Moondog you’re referring to Vito Corleone..different story
@@WILTALK ...You don't know the half of how the entire world was suckered into this war that was actually planned in 1871. Americans actually created Bolshevic Communist Russia.
Complete nonsense.
There were no seat-belts in those cars, no one else was injured. Yet Patton was paralyzed?! Just makes me think is all....
Old Blood n' Guts! A great man.
Ole blood , guts , and glory
When interviewing somebody or asking him to tell a story why do you keep interrupting him.
They know next to nothing about Gen. Patton and there laughing at him.Shame on them.
I think you are confusing me with some else
I've seen the Patton car in Fort Knox. Looking forward to getting this book and giving my dad a copy too.
Bill just to let you know my stepfather William Wood ||| was General Patton's nephew I absolutely loved the stories you were absolutely right on point.
Mostly "Patton" is a myth. Mostly he was a good subordinate leader to Bradley and Eisenhower. He was meticulous, he was prepared, he was loyal toward his own subordinates and not the loud-mouthed brash bully to his staff that the movie portrays. He removed only a small number of his subordinates. He was VERY aware of the limits of logistics. He well knew that a WWII army travelled on fuel, food and ammunition and not just "guts". Patton's short-comings? He was not a particularly good communicator. His strength, he listened to his subordinates and he had an exceptional intelligence staff that had his ear.
Patton advocated to keep on marching into Russia...He knew, foresaw the real Russia..and was not afraid to announce the facts...
Patton had flaws. Does not mean he wa wrong.
Good Point ,Gilad. All considerations to O'Reily his Killing Series Books are excellent reading.
The interviewers are sad. You can feel their disdain while interviewing O'Reilly.
justified disdain
Because they work for and worship the Liberal Left!
daltexasone, they’re a bunch of communists giving this interview!! AHs
He's deserving of disdain; I'm only glad that he perceived it.
@@stankygeorge because these liberal people are pushing communism
Patton, you were a true American patriot.
I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Reilly but I respect this and I'm glad he's putting this out there.
Sad what a great American hero and one of my favorite generals besides general Washington..
Washington was a Freemason and a traitor to America.
@@Tboy439 America is a failed country
USA*
@@roskcity ...All countries are failed countries, controlled by the same entity, ROME!!!
I've always thought that Patton Was murdered. My Dad was in Pattons Army ,arriving in North Africa in 1942, ended up in Germany 1945. Ol Blood and Guts was a tuff guy.
Damn. Your father fought a long war. Thank you.
@@luciusvorenus9445 He was wounded at one point and received Purple Heart.
the red ball express was formed to keep patton supplied.
O'Reilly and Stone should make a series of movies based on O'Reilly's various "Killing" Books. That'd be a great series of movies!
Look up Doug Bazata. He is the one who claimed to have killed Patton and how he did it. Patton planned on leaving the military and wanted to come to the states as a civilian and say how he honestly felt.
Right because his son that was adopted lived in the states....Donald Trump. Trump is Patton's son.
I personally buy the story of Bazata murdering Patton up to a point but like Bill says it could have just been one of those 'Counterfeit Traitor" stories spooks put out to scam the other side into thinking they can trust them like undercover cops use to infiltrate drug cartels. Bazata more probably was getting orders and money from Stalin than Donovan since Stalin had way stronger motives than Donovan for wanting Patton dead and for all we know could have used Alger Hiss or one of the many other Communist spies infiltrating the Truman State Department to set it up to make Donovan the patsy they could blame for it if the plan went South, just like they tried to put the blame for Oswald killing JFK on the CIA or the Mafia. That's the sort thing Communists do. That's why you should always count your fingers after shaking hands with a Communist. Honesty is not one of their strong points.
Two world wars and Patton died in a car accident...... kinda strange.
Very few people realize that Bill O'Reilly was considered perhaps the best investigative journalist in the business during his early career, including his time at CBS. He won numerous awards - particularly for his detailed style of investigative reporting. He was one of the very first "connect the dots" ground reporters, and he made a lot of enemies in the process. So many, in fact, that they lured him out of investigative reporting and into a more situational role, including Inside Edition for ABC, which was basically a gossip forum. O'Reilly HATED the format, even though he made a ton of money, and garnered a ton of recognition and success. His passion was putting the puzzle together, piece by piece. I remember early on when Mike Wallace - a legend himself - criticized O'Reilly's style as "Too slow - too determined - too labor-intensive in the television era. The people want stories, not investigations with updated segments." In retrospect, this was - perhaps - the beginning of the end of responsible reporting. Everyone needed to deliver the complete story - verified or not - which has resulted in the DEATH of investigative journalism. I remember the late William F. Buckley giving a speech where he mentioned a session at a prominent Journalism program at a fairly prestigious University. He said that he spoke for just under an hour, in total, but that he took a recess in the middle of his presentation to interact with the students on a one-on-one basis. He said that he conducted general banter with each of the students, but that he made sure that he asked each of them one specific question: Why did you choose Journalism as a profession? When he resumed his presentation to the class, he recounted exactly what I've just mentioned - that he asked each of them the same question. And then he said "...almost to the individual, you've all give responses that - at least on the surface - disqualify you from being effective Journalists." He went on to say "... each of you offered some brand of response that was tantamount to - I want to make a difference - or - I want to tell the story..." Then he said "...the function of the Journalist is not to TELL THE STORY, but to INVESTIGATE the story, and to report the facts. The function of the Journalist is not to MAKE A DIFFERENCE, but to record and report the facts of the matter, and let the true story tell itself. The moment you see yourself as the difference between the STORY and the TRUTH, you've just nullified Journalism." So, tell me - do you think the Nightly News is giving you the NEWS, or the STORY?
Patton knew the military better than anyone. He was promoted from Colonel to General when the US started preparing for war at age 55. This was a time when most officers 55 or older were thanked for their service and put in retirement. I once asked a retired colonel who was 70 years old if the army called him back, would he go. He said yes, but they would be taking from the bottom of the barrell. War is a young man's game." In the beginning of the war he did a first class job taking Casablanca. So much so, that he was put in charge the North Africa Campaign. He was getting the headlines as well all the jealousy from all other generals. As a general, no one could beat him. In his career he only lost one battle. He was relieved of command during the Italian Campaign. When that happened the momentum of the Italian campaign was lost and was never regained. It cost a great deal of American casualties because of him being relieved.
Looking at that car... that does NOT look like a fender bender !
Its said not to be the original car.
I though our goverment killed him
i think that what people can't get over is patton survives the entire war only to be killed in a freak accident. they made a movie about it titles the last days of patton with george c scott.
Paul, that's how it normally happens. A guy survives war and gets killed walkng across the street. War is Hell!
My uncle served under Patton. HE did say, "The man gets respect....his guts and our blood."
Read the book its a good read.
Its a bs book .. OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..
Great job Bill,, My dad was a Master Sgt, with the 4th Armored Division, Third Army. He told me that his guys thought Patton was crazy, but TO A MAN,, they would have followed him to Moscow. Now it does not take a rocket scientist to know why he was murdered.
Every WWII Veteran I spoke to would tell me what platoon, company and division they served in, EXPECT veterans of Patton's commands. They would say "I rode with Patton!"
I wonder if Bill O'Reilly ever saw the movie "The Last Days of Patton" staring George C. Scott?
Hey Bill. The biography is fantastic. Just as fantastic as GSP.
I have a story from my family archives. It's true.
My grandfather, Ralph Agnone was an expert tailor. Everything done by hand.
He worked a small shop on 114 th street in Manhattan during the war. The other half of the shop made book. The policy game...anything to make a few extra bucks.
Now to the story. Grandpa crafted two cashmere coats that we see the General in.
I was surprised that that honor bestowed my family.
It's now a part of American history and he sure looks sharp. I wonder where they are now. The Patton family my have on and one may be in a museum. Hopefully.
I remember over 30 years ago ---
it was said Patton was murdered'
my cat has the name Patton.
he is in my bed every night .
two hero's.
I'm not sure why but your comment brought tears to my eyes..
My great-grandmother was General Patton's cousin. He was also descendants of Hugh Mercer.
The killing books are unique in as much as they provide many unknown bits & pieces of information seldom published anywhere else. Excellent reads...
Seldom published anywhere else because they are nonsense
Got all of O'Reilly Killing Series great history books.
OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..
One thing , people who are paralyzed at times suffer from blood clots and die all of a sudden when a clot breaks away and either enters the brain of invades the heart.Hard to tell especially in the mid 40's.
Why no autopsy then?
Robert Patrick Blood clots are infection , the teeth , due to scurvy are the most infected part of the body, what's termed a cold infection , see Dr.Weston A Price, and the IAOMT.
But being the popular general he was, why no autopsy? It does seem strange. Especially if doctors just thought he was paralyzed and would somewhat recover and leave the hospital.
Patton was an average US general, like Simpson, Patch, Hodges, etc. No more.
_"The Allied armies closing the pocket now needed to liaise, those held back giving way to any Allied force that could get ahead, regardless of boundaries - provided the situation was clear. On August 16, realising that his forces were not able to get forward quickly, General Crerar attempted to do this, writing a personal letter to Patton in an attempt to establish some effective contact between their two headquarters and sort out the question of Army boundaries, only to get a very dusty and unhelpful answer. Crerar sent an officer, Major A. M. Irving, and some signal equipment to Patton’s HQ, asking for details of Patton’s intentions intentions and inviting Patton to send an American liaison officer to the Canadian First Army HQ for the same purpose._
_Irving located but could not find Patton; he did, however, reach the First Army HQ and delivered Crerar’s letter which was duly relayed to Third Army HQ. Patton’s response is encapsulated in the message sent back by Irving to Canadian First Army; ‘Direct liaison not permitted. Liaison on Army Group level only except corps artillery. Awaiting arrival signal equipment before returning.’ Irving returned to Crerar’s HQ on August 20, with nothing achieved and while such uncooperative attitudes prevailed at the front line, it is hardly surprising that the moves of the Allied armies on Trun and Chambois remained hesitant."_
- Neillands, Robin. The Battle of Normandy 1944
Patton refused to liaise with other allied armies, exasperating a critical situation.
_"This advance duly began at 0630hrs on August 18 which, as the Canadian Official History remarks,16 ‘was a day and a half after Montgomery had issued the order for the Canadians to close the gap at Trun, and four and a half days after Patton had been stopped at the Third Army boundary’. During that time, says the Canadian History, the Canadians had been ‘fighting down from the north with painful slowness’ and the Germans had been making their way east through the Falaise gap. They were not, however, unimpeded; the tactical air forces and Allied artillery were already taking a fearful toll of the German columns on the roads heading east past Falaise._
_Patton’s corps duly surged away to the east, heading for Dreux, Chartres and Orléans respectively. None of these places lay in the path of the German retreat from Normandy: only Dreux is close to the Seine, Chartres is on the Beauce plain, south-east of Paris, and Orléans is on the river Loire. It appears that Patton had given up any attempt to head off the German retreat to the Seine and gone off across territory empty of enemy, gaining ground rapidly and capturing a quantity of newspaper headlines. This would be another whirlwind Patton advance - against negligible opposition - but while Patton disappeared towards the east the Canadians were still heavily engaged in the new battle for Falaise - Operation Tractable - which had begun on August 14 and was making good progress."_
- Neillands, Robin. The Battle of Normandy 1944
Instead of moving east to cut retreating Germans at the Seine, Patton ran off to Paris. John Ellis in _Brute Force_ described Patton's dash across northern France as well as his earlier _“much overrated”_ pursuit through Sicily as more of _“a triumphal procession than an actual military offensive.”_
*Patton at Metz advanced 10 miles in three months.* The poorly devised Panzer Brigade concept was deployed there with green German troops. The Panzer Brigades were a rushed concept attempting to plug the gaps while the proper panzer divisions were re-fitting and rebuilt after the summer 1944 battles.
The Panzer Brigades had green crews with little time to train, did not know their tanks properly, had no recon elements and didn't even meet their unit commander until his arrival at the front. These were not elite forces.
17th SS were not amongst the premier Waffen SS panzer divisions. It was not even a panzer division but a panzer grenadier division, equipped only with assault guns not tanks, with only a quarter of the number of AFVs as a panzer division. The 17th SS was badly mauled in Normandy and not up to strength at Arracourt in The Lorraine.
Patton's Third Army was almost always where the best German divisions in the west were *NOT.*
♦ Who did the 3rd Army engage?
♦ Who did the 3rd Army defeat?
♦ Patton never once faced a full strength
Waffen SS panzer division nor a
Tiger battalion.
In The Lorraine, the 3rd Army faced a rabble. Even the German commander of Army Group G in The Lorraine, Hermann Balck, who took command in September 1944 said:
_"I have never been in command of such irregularly_
_assembled and ill-equipped troops. The fact that_
_we have been able to straighten out the situation_
_again…can only be attributed to_ *_the bad and hesitating_*
*_command of the Americans."_*
Patton was mostly facing a second rate rabble in The Lorraine.
Patton was neither on the advance or being heavily engaged at the time he turned north to Bastogne when the Germans pounded through US lines in the Ardennes. The road from Luxembourg to Bastogne saw few German forces, with Bastogne being on the very southern German flank, their focus was _west._ Only when Patton neared Bastogne did he engage _some_ German armour but not a great deal at all. Patton's ride to Bastogne was mainly through US held territory. The Fuhrer Grenadier Brigade was not one of the best German armoured units with about 80 tanks, while 26th Volks-Grenadier only had about 12 Hetzers, and the small element of Panzer Lehr (Kampfgruppe 901) left behind only had a small number of tanks operational. Patton did not have to smash through full panzer divisions or Tiger battalions on his way to Bastogne. Patton's armoured forces outnumbered the Germans by at least 6 to 1.
Patton faced very little German armour when he broke through to Bastogne because the vast majority of the German 5th Panzer Army had already left Bastogne in their rear moving westwards to the River Meuse. They were engaging forces under Montgomery's 21st Army Group. Leading elements were engaging the Americans and British under Montgomery's command near Dinant by the Meuse. Monty's armies halted the German advance and pushed them back.
On the night of the 22 December 1944, Patton ordered Combat Command B of 4th Armored Division to advance through the village of Chaumont in the night. A small number of German troops with anti tank weapons opened up with the American attack stopping and pulling back. The next day fighter bombers strafed the village of Chaumont weakening the defenders enabling the attack to resume the next afternoon. However, a German counter attack north of Chaumont knocked out 12 Shermans with Combat Command B retreating once again. It took Patton almost *THREE DAYS* just to get through the village of Chaumont. Patton's forces arrived at Chaumont late on the 22nd December. They didn't get through Chaumont village until Christmas Day, the 25th! Hardly racing at breakneck speed.
Patton had less than 20 km of German held ground to cover during his actual _'attack'_ towards Bastogne, with the vast majority of his move towards Bastogne through American held lines devoid of the enemy. His start line for the attack was at Vaux-les-Rosieres, just 15km southwest of Bastogne and yet he still took him five days to get through to Bastogne.
In Normandy in 1944, the panzer divisions had been largely worn down, primarily by the British and Canadians around Caen. The First US Army around St Lo then Mortain helped a little. *Over 90% of German armour was destroyed by the British.* Once again, Patton faced very little opposition in his break out in Operation Cobra performing mainly an infantry role. Nor did Patton advance any quicker across eastern France mainly devoid of German troops, than the British and Canadians did, who were in Brussels by early September seizing the vital port of Antwerp intact. This eastern dash devoid of German forces was the ride the US media claimed Patton was some sort master of fast moving armour.
Patton repeatedly denigrated his subordinates.
♦ In Sicily he castigated Omar Bradley for the tactics
Bradley's II Corps were employing
♦ He accused the commander of 3rd Infantry Division,
Truscott of being _"afraid to fight"._
♦ In the Ardennes he castigated Middleton of the
US VIII Corps and Millikin of the US III Corps.
♦ When his advance from Bastogne to Houffalize
stalled he criticised the 11th Armoured Division for being
_"very green and taking unnecessary casualties to no effect"._
♦ He called the 17th Airborne Division _"hysterical"_ in
reporting their losses.
After the German attack in the Ardennes, US air force units were put under Coningham of the RAF. Coningham, gave Patton massive ground attack plane support and he still *stalled.* Patton's failure to concentrate his forces on a narrow front and his decision to commit two green divisions to battle without adequate reconnaissance resulted in his *stall.* Patton rarely took any responsibility for his own failures. It was always somebody else at fault, including his subordinates. A poor general who thought he was reincarnated. Oh, and wore cowboy guns.
Patton detested Hodges, did not like Bradley disobeying his orders, and Eisenhowers orders. He also hated Montgomery. About the only person he ever liked was himself.
Read:
_Monty and Patton: Two Paths to Victory_ by Michael Reynolds;
_Fighting Patton: George S. Patton Jr. Through the Eyes of His Enemies_ by Harry Yeide
Which would made him Chief of Staff in The British Army.Go take a swim in the Channel an old British Tradition
Exactly. He was good but not great. I saw the movie. O’reilly is just selling books for money. I see through that
Patton was a hero !
Bill O'Reilly isn't stupid. In fact, he's a whole lot smarter than people think he is. Bill tells the truth and the truth hurts those who aren't capable of facing the truth. Bill O'Reilly would make a great Secretary of State, or an excellent foreign ambassador.
That sir is the truth.
Pointman, wait, were you being sarcastic?
Your'e joking, right?
We all know how credible bill is. It wasn’t a car that hit him it was a truck
In reading about the Sherman tank, it was reported that, despite widespread criticism, General Patton gave full approval for full-scale production with little, if any modifications. So, is this accurate?
O'Reilly got it wrong. The vehicle that ran into Patton's car, was an Army duce and a half truck. It is
said that it was stolen or either taken from a motor pool with out an authorized Trip Ticket.
I thought I knew alot about WWII. I learned more from this book than any where else.
No you didn't. If you read this book you will become less knowledgable. O'Reilly hasn't got a clue.
He was anticomunist, a real hero compare to other generals and the goverment thats wy. the old American way. like J.F.K. and R.F.K. all 3 R.I.P.
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thanks Mo Jo
marios manesis JFK would have been a poor President. R.I.P. though
marios manesis ngjm
the kennedys were criminals.
Bringing O'Reily back bit by bit ...
Where is Pattons streets named after him where are the airports, libraries? Hmmmm? The great general was silenced and forgotten. Wtf?
A pretty good read. Thought provoking and really a mystery about a great national hero.
OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..
There is no mystery. The facts are very well known and O'reilly is just a huckster.
I thought this mystery had already been solved. On the show "History Decoded" a living relative of Patton verified that Patton wanted to keep the whole incident quiet because he didn't want to get the driver of the truck who was in the army in trouble. That is why there was so much secrecy surrounding the accident and that is why the driver of the other vehicle was never charged.
The accident might have been an accident, but his dying in the hospital was not. The guy who stated he was part of the plan to assassinate him stated that him being in the hospital made it easier. The could just poison him and it would be attributed to his accident.
@@WILTALK Baloney
If you want to know what happened to General Patton the last agency you want on the case is the U. S. Justice Department.
Amen brother.
I'd say that was a bit more than a fender bender. By the thickness of the metal in cars in that day??
I forgot about that very smart 💥
The swamp existed even back then in 1940s
"They" say the cause of death was a post-accident embolism, yet it is said there was no autopsy on him.
I still want answers
Please listen to "Benjamin Freedman 1961 speech", on UA-cam.
Paton knew what Stalin had in mind. no one wanted to hear it. Churchill and Montgomery knew it. when the German soldiers surrendered to the British, Montgomery told his men to stack the rifles, so that if the Russians attacked, they could give them back to the Germans
He should be reburied back at West Point and Be Thou at Peace!
He is buried with his Soldiers
Stfu Maria, as a woman you should not say anything about him and reburrying him.
People criticizing the book. Read it if you can't read have someone read it to you.
I did my own research. I know Bill is not a truthful man and wrote this book to make money. Most comments here are not well thought out. The story about his death is both logical and unfortunate as death can always to someone as well known as Patton. I do like Patton though and liked the movie.
Thank You Bill, This has festered too long. Time for Justice.
Gen.George S.Patton Best General Ever Sherman,Grant Great Military Strategists "Old Iron Guts"
"Hello Gail". The disdain for her is hilarious.
what kind of injuries did he sustain
Maybe why Bill's show was kicked off fox?
He was MURDERED
dam bill after all you have seen and been through and still it's hard to name the real enemy.
His resemblance to another strategic genius is uncanny
I wouldn’t call Trump strategic.
He didnt become a billionaire and president without it. He literally wrote a book on strategy.
@@PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx he’s a con artist…..but he’s not stupid either I’ll give you that.
Thay didn't want him getting into politics😵💫
In the movie German officer Steiger says, Patton would not survive without war. I think he was right.
Didn't the German high comand refer to general Patten as violent
Charlie Rose looks excited about the whole thing, probably thinking about what's going to happen to him later down the road.
Patton was Silenced....
Too bad O'Reilly hasn't written a book a book called Killing Diana.
How about a book called Killing Franz Ferdinand?
Do you know the actual reason why they murdered Franz Ferdinand?
@@Tboy439 to start the world war one
Eisenhower took him out. No secret lol.
4:39 - wow
A by gone era when CBS cared about reporting.
Patton was rubbed out
Waiting for the book, “ killing Scalia “.
Bradley, Eisenhower, Marshall, Collins.
Patton said: "we defeated the wrong enemy"!
I have read many theories on this blog and no one has said who that enemy was and still is!
Our own government!!!
@IKnow Daway Is there a difference?...
Wrong
@@Tboy439
My neighbor is Patton's grandson...indicating O'Reilly is just peddling "stuff"...
Indeed. This is more BS manufactured from the conspiracy industry.
The bs is he was. Murdered my father was there showed me the proof Eisenhower ordered it
Eisenhower was a trader that let Hitler go
See how fast they laughed at the idea and changed the subject. Of course it happened. Rommel hit.
How
Patton had a hatred of communism and the Soviet Union and he knew we would have to face the menace that they were at that time. Patton actually stated that he wanted to ally his 3rd Army with skilled German Army officers and soldiers to attack and push the Red Army back into Russia. Because of this Patton was portrayed as radical, mentally unstable and a "danger" to so called post war peace. On the contrary as it turned out Patton was absolutely correct about the communist threat and Stalin's menace. Those who attacked Patton particularly in the press were for the most part ignorant to the reality of what was to come and just hated Patton. God grant eternal rest to America's greatest general!!🇺🇸
Happy that OReilly finally revealed this story, we knew he was murdered ,
OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..