Was General George S. Patton murdered?
On December 21, 1945, America’s iconic four-star General, who had triumphed from the deserts of North Africa to Hitler’s doorstep, was pronounced dead at the 130th Field Hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. He was 60-years-old. Twelve days earlier, General Patton had set off on a pheasant hunting trip near Mannheim when his Cadillac staff car collided with a two-and-a-half ton U.S. Army truck. Patton was immediately paralyzed from the neck down. His driver, PFC Horace Woodring and his chief of staff, General Hap Gay, walked away with barely a scratch. Was it just a freak automobile accident as the Army concluded or was it, as some conspiracy theorists believe, a calculated assassination attempt by the Russians or the OSS? In “War Stories Investigates: The Remarkable Life and Mysterious Death of General Patton,” we tried to uncover the truth. Our investigation uncovered very few records from the accident. When we dug through Patton’s military personnel file at the National Archives in St. L
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