Patton knew who the real enemy was.

Ex girlfriend of mine, her grandfather is around 100, he was one of Patton's favorite soldiers, he knew him personally.

I just read Killing Patton. The way our country treated this Great General was sad and atrocious and shameful!

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!

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.

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.

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.

We need more Patton's. Esapically in Washington.

Greatest General the USA ever had !!

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.

Had they listened to Patton, there never would've been a Cold War! A great American hero!

There's something seriously wrong with the way we have been doing things in this country

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.

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.

Gen. Patton was a true hero that saved many U.S. soldiers lives by his decisive actions !

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.

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.

CBS sits at a table and actually LAUGHS about the possible assassination of one of our generals.

We Defeated The Wrong Enemy - George S Patton

There were no seat-belts in those cars, no one else was injured. Yet Patton was paralyzed?! Just makes me think is all....

This is the only time I’ve watched CBS news, and this will be the only time; but this is fascinating.

We need more Generals like Gen Patton

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.

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.

When interviewing somebody or asking him to tell a story why do you keep interrupting him.

Old Blood n' Guts! A great man.

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.

I've seen the Patton car in Fort Knox. Looking forward to getting this book and giving my dad a copy too.

Patton advocated to keep on marching into Russia...He knew, foresaw the real Russia..and was not afraid to announce the facts...

The interviewers are sad. You can feel their disdain while interviewing O'Reilly.

Patton had flaws. Does not mean he wa wrong.

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.

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?

I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Reilly but I respect this and I'm glad he's putting this out there.

Good Point ,Gilad. All considerations to O'Reily his Killing Series Books are excellent reading.

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.

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

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!

the red ball express was formed to keep patton supplied.

Looking at that car... that does NOT look like a fender bender !

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.

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.

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.

Sad what a great American hero and one of my favorite generals besides general Washington..

I wonder if Bill O'Reilly ever saw the movie "The Last Days of Patton" staring George C. Scott?

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.

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.

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.

Two world wars and Patton died in a car accident...... kinda strange.

We all know how credible bill is. It wasn’t a car that hit him it was a truck

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'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.

Patton, you were a true American patriot.

My great-grandmother was General Patton's cousin. He was also descendants of Hugh Mercer.

Where is Pattons streets named after him where are the airports, libraries? Hmmmm? The great general was silenced and forgotten. Wtf?

If you want to know what happened to General Patton the last agency you want on the case is the U. S. Justice Department.

Read the book its a good read.

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?

Got all of O'Reilly Killing Series great history books.

"They" say the cause of death was a post-accident embolism, yet it is said there was no autopsy on him.

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

Bringing O'Reily back bit by bit ...

The killing books are unique in as much as they provide many unknown bits & pieces of information seldom published anywhere else. Excellent reads...

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.

Patton was a hero !

The swamp existed even back then in 1940s

A pretty good read. Thought provoking and really a mystery about a great national hero.

I'd say that was a bit more than a fender bender. By the thickness of the metal in cars in that day??

I thought I knew alot about WWII. I learned more from this book than any where else.

He should be reburied back at West Point and Be Thou at Peace!

"Hello Gail". The disdain for her is hilarious.

Please listen to "Benjamin Freedman 1961 speech", on KZfaq.

Gen.George S.Patton Best General Ever Sherman,Grant Great Military Strategists "Old Iron Guts"

People criticizing the book. Read it if you can't read have someone read it to you.

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!

Too bad O'Reilly hasn't written a book a book called Killing Diana. How about a book called Killing Franz Ferdinand?

Maybe why Bill's show was kicked off fox?

His resemblance to another strategic genius is uncanny

He was MURDERED

My neighbor is Patton's grandson...indicating O'Reilly is just peddling "stuff"...

A by gone era when CBS cared about reporting.

That's not a simple fender bender. That's like a 30 or 40 mile collision damage. LOL

Eisenhower took him out. No secret lol.

In the movie German officer Steiger says, Patton would not survive without war. I think he was right.

I still want answers

dam bill after all you have seen and been through and still it's hard to name the real enemy.

Thank You Bill, This has festered too long. Time for Justice.

Thay didn't want him getting into politics😵‍💫

I am a history expert. Patton was going pheasant hunting, to a location far from his base, he never took that route before, he went on the spur of the moment, and maybe4 people knew where he was going and no one knew the route he was taking. Thank you.

Charlie Rose looks excited about the whole thing, probably thinking about what's going to happen to him later down the road.

See how fast they laughed at the idea and changed the subject. Of course it happened. Rommel hit.

Everyone is looking at him like he is insane. You can tell they are very skeptical of his claims. I think it's plausible.

what kind of injuries did he sustain

Patton was Silenced....

Happy that OReilly finally revealed this story, we knew he was murdered ,

Waiting for the book, “ killing Scalia “.

My great-grandfather was murdered because he wanted to go to war against the U.S.S.R. right after ww2 ended

It was Christmas time. These guys hadn't been home for Christmas in 3-4 years. Thats why they buried him and moved on. He wasn't killed by anyone

The accident didn't warrant the injury he received...