Bill O'Reilly investigates WWII Gen. Patton's life and death

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  • @stonegraysky1311
    @stonegraysky1311 5 лет назад +348

    Patton knew who the real enemy was.

    • @thorshammer7883
      @thorshammer7883 4 года назад +11

      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?

    • @whattawhaddaya6561
      @whattawhaddaya6561 4 года назад +15

      *O Y V E Y*

    • @roskcity
      @roskcity 4 года назад +2

      @Tan Y.E. what does that mean?

    • @roskcity
      @roskcity 4 года назад +2

      @@whattawhaddaya6561 Stfu

    • @dennist.8018
      @dennist.8018 4 года назад +21

      Just like JFK, and now Trump.

  • @Brandonmwow
    @Brandonmwow 6 лет назад +99

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

    • @Stongray67
      @Stongray67 3 года назад +4

      So Do did my father Eisenhower was a trader he had Patton killed because Patton knew and had proof that Eisenhower let hitler go

  • @alanaadams7440
    @alanaadams7440 5 лет назад +49

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

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад +1

      Good thing the book is fiction.

    • @rickyj5547
      @rickyj5547 Год назад +4

      ​@@executivedirector7467 but if it's not. What if he was killed by the oss organisation.

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 Год назад

      @@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.

    • @FranciscoVilla-e7p
      @FranciscoVilla-e7p Год назад

      ​@@rickyj5547real talk

  • @richardhoepfner1633
    @richardhoepfner1633 7 лет назад +194

    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.

    • @williamdean4101
      @williamdean4101 6 лет назад +14

      I doubt it. Look at what Truman did to General MacArthur.

    • @dave-yj9mc
      @dave-yj9mc 5 лет назад +1

      sound like our current POTUS.

    • @TheSaltydog07
      @TheSaltydog07 5 лет назад

      Not true.

    • @alanaadams7440
      @alanaadams7440 5 лет назад +7

      Yes we could have won the Korean war if Patton had been the General

    • @christopherrich1031
      @christopherrich1031 5 лет назад +9

      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.

  • @911dispatcher1956
    @911dispatcher1956 8 лет назад +216

    Greatest General the USA ever had !!

    • @091053JG
      @091053JG 6 лет назад +7

      You ever hear of Ulysses S. Grant?

    • @markharrison2544
      @markharrison2544 6 лет назад +2

      Patton wasn't a good general.

    • @warriorfb2010
      @warriorfb2010 6 лет назад +11

      @@markharrison2544 Right, he was simply the best general of WW2 and many other wars.

    • @markharrison2544
      @markharrison2544 6 лет назад

      @@warriorfb2010 Hardly. He was a terrible general. He also praised the Holocaust.

    • @warriorfb2010
      @warriorfb2010 6 лет назад +15

      @@markharrison2544 all he did was win, so explain

  • @dedowd9335
    @dedowd9335 5 лет назад +10

    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.

  • @jmtjet
    @jmtjet 6 лет назад +31

    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.

    • @southwestgal7
      @southwestgal7 2 года назад +3

      May God Rest His Soul🙏🇺🇸...

    • @garronwarwick6090
      @garronwarwick6090 Год назад +4

      ❤🇺🇸God Bless your Dad and all the heroes of the Greatest Generation. They saved the world!!

    • @joelglanton6531
      @joelglanton6531 Год назад

      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!!

    • @luciusvorenus9445
      @luciusvorenus9445 11 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you for your family's sacrifice.

  • @LookHereMars
    @LookHereMars 7 лет назад +395

    We Defeated The Wrong Enemy - George S Patton

    • @haitaogao1290
      @haitaogao1290 6 лет назад +6

      then who was the real enemy? USSR? I don't think so !

    • @shadow4769
      @shadow4769 6 лет назад +62

      They were

    • @markharrison2544
      @markharrison2544 6 лет назад +8

      Patton praised the Holocaust: warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/general-george-s-patton-jr-death-final-days/

    • @philiphoward1731
      @philiphoward1731 5 лет назад +61

      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

    • @brianchase9251
      @brianchase9251 5 лет назад +4

      @@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

  •  5 лет назад +91

    He needs to write a book on "Killing Jeffrey Epstein."

    • @beasix9384
      @beasix9384 4 года назад

      He's not dead. Very likely hes is Israel now.

  • @davidcook5705
    @davidcook5705 4 года назад +33

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

  • @chrisflocco8084
    @chrisflocco8084 5 лет назад +158

    We need more Patton's. Esapically in Washington.

    • @CultofThings
      @CultofThings 4 года назад +4

      Chris Flocco Mattis was a great general as well

    • @nikitakuznetsov8446
      @nikitakuznetsov8446 4 года назад +2

      Long live the USSR and Comrade Stalin, death to America and Capitalism.

    • @AEL231
      @AEL231 4 года назад +1

      Jeff Doe Mattis is a globalist.

    • @whattawhaddaya6561
      @whattawhaddaya6561 4 года назад +1

      Nikita Kuznetsov can i ask if that’s the 1917 eagle on your pfp or the 1889?

    • @thomasmurallo9688
      @thomasmurallo9688 4 года назад +3

      Well said,a gen Patton admirer

  • @garronwarwick6090
    @garronwarwick6090 2 года назад +10

    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.

  • @jjhkjhgkjh
    @jjhkjhgkjh 10 лет назад +20

    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!

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад

      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.

  • @keithchrysler3732
    @keithchrysler3732 5 лет назад +13

    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.

  • @olivergrumitt8033
    @olivergrumitt8033 5 лет назад +17

    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.

  • @bertkilborne6464
    @bertkilborne6464 4 года назад +21

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

  • @AmWestColl
    @AmWestColl 5 лет назад +16

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

  • @joeroyle1399
    @joeroyle1399 2 года назад +11

    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.

  • @rick3514
    @rick3514 2 года назад +11

    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.

    • @JAM661
      @JAM661 Год назад

      He was not interested in politics.

  • @705butler
    @705butler 9 лет назад +71

    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.

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад +13

      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.

    • @hipqban169
      @hipqban169 5 лет назад

      Moondog you’re referring to Vito Corleone..different story

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 4 года назад

      @@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.

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      Complete nonsense.

  • @parranoya100
    @parranoya100 6 лет назад +157

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

    • @williamdean4101
      @williamdean4101 6 лет назад +25

      What do you expect from the " Clinton Broadcasting System?"

    • @zangardo3937
      @zangardo3937 5 лет назад +5

      Bobble heads

    • @CMRinehart
      @CMRinehart 5 лет назад +9

      Shows you how ignorant they are.

    • @mattsmith87
      @mattsmith87 5 лет назад

      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.

    • @K-Denton
      @K-Denton 4 года назад +2

      Isn't it typical!? The news media is controlled. They don't know the truth if it slapped them in the face!

  • @wyckoffwilliam5950
    @wyckoffwilliam5950 2 года назад +19

    We need more Generals like Gen Patton

  • @stevemccoy8138
    @stevemccoy8138 Год назад +4

    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.

    • @luciusvorenus9445
      @luciusvorenus9445 11 месяцев назад +1

      Damn. Your father fought a long war. Thank you.

    • @stevemccoy8138
      @stevemccoy8138 11 месяцев назад

      @@luciusvorenus9445 He was wounded at one point and received Purple Heart.

  • @abelabner
    @abelabner 5 лет назад +7

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

  • @jamesmanzano5231
    @jamesmanzano5231 6 лет назад +6

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

  • @karencarter4072
    @karencarter4072 5 лет назад +12

    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.

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      They are completely ridiculous, completely without foundation, and believed only by yahoos.

  • @iamrichrocker
    @iamrichrocker 5 лет назад +11

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

  • @WillCarter1976
    @WillCarter1976 5 лет назад +28

    Old Blood n' Guts! A great man.

    • @mike.j4893
      @mike.j4893 2 года назад

      Ole blood , guts , and glory

  • @lowellleber1722
    @lowellleber1722 8 лет назад +23

    Patton had flaws. Does not mean he wa wrong.

  • @danielneece6404
    @danielneece6404 5 лет назад +37

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

    • @josemoreno3334
      @josemoreno3334 4 года назад +5

      They know next to nothing about Gen. Patton and there laughing at him.Shame on them.

    • @thomasmurallo9688
      @thomasmurallo9688 4 года назад

      I think you are confusing me with some else

  • @LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk
    @LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk Год назад +4

    Patton, you were a true American patriot.

  • @daltexasone
    @daltexasone 6 лет назад +58

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

    • @willmoore8708
      @willmoore8708 5 лет назад +3

      justified disdain

    • @stankygeorge
      @stankygeorge 5 лет назад +12

      Because they work for and worship the Liberal Left!

    • @terry4137
      @terry4137 5 лет назад +5

      daltexasone, they’re a bunch of communists giving this interview!! AHs

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 3 года назад +1

      He's deserving of disdain; I'm only glad that he perceived it.

    • @brianmorales2079
      @brianmorales2079 3 года назад +1

      @@stankygeorge because these liberal people are pushing communism

  • @mariosmanesis8376
    @mariosmanesis8376 10 лет назад +137

    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.

    • @mariosmanesis8376
      @mariosmanesis8376 10 лет назад

      ευχαρηστω Ζωη

    • @mariosmanesis8376
      @mariosmanesis8376 10 лет назад +1

      thanks Mo Jo

    • @EHRROR
      @EHRROR 7 лет назад +2

      marios manesis JFK would have been a poor President. R.I.P. though

    • @victorluu2818
      @victorluu2818 7 лет назад

      marios manesis ngjm

    • @JOHNTOPG
      @JOHNTOPG 6 лет назад +4

      the kennedys were criminals.

  • @geraldwilson681
    @geraldwilson681 Год назад +2

    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!!🇺🇸

  • @monaobryant9107
    @monaobryant9107 5 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @CallmeDaBreeze1971
    @CallmeDaBreeze1971 10 лет назад +12

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

  • @pointman1dmzpatrol116
    @pointman1dmzpatrol116 10 лет назад +13

    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.

  • @MrBudcole
    @MrBudcole 4 года назад +4

    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?

  • @lastofthefinest
    @lastofthefinest 7 лет назад +10

    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.

    • @saved_by_grace75
      @saved_by_grace75 3 года назад

      Right because his son that was adopted lived in the states....Donald Trump. Trump is Patton's son.

    • @Texasjim2007
      @Texasjim2007 Год назад

      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.

  • @AKAKDOG
    @AKAKDOG 5 лет назад +19

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

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 4 года назад

      Washington was a Freemason and a traitor to America.

    • @roskcity
      @roskcity 4 года назад

      @@Tboy439 America is a failed country

    • @roskcity
      @roskcity 4 года назад

      USA*

    • @Tboy439
      @Tboy439 4 года назад +2

      @@roskcity ...All countries are failed countries, controlled by the same entity, ROME!!!

  • @wesleyhite8203
    @wesleyhite8203 5 лет назад +12

    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

  • @GuyFromTheSouth
    @GuyFromTheSouth 4 года назад +2

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

  • @robertpatrick9128
    @robertpatrick9128 7 лет назад +16

    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.

    • @imalt8271
      @imalt8271 5 лет назад +3

      Why no autopsy then?

    • @beckywatt5048
      @beckywatt5048 4 года назад

      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.

    • @Hambone571
      @Hambone571 4 года назад +3

      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.

  • @ROXKSTARPRO
    @ROXKSTARPRO 10 лет назад +2

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

  • @johnmaloney7518
    @johnmaloney7518 3 года назад +2

    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.

    • @luciusvorenus9445
      @luciusvorenus9445 11 месяцев назад

      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!"

  • @paulpisano8538
    @paulpisano8538 10 лет назад +11

    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.

    • @pointman1dmzpatrol116
      @pointman1dmzpatrol116 10 лет назад

      Paul, that's how it normally happens. A guy survives war and gets killed walkng across the street. War is Hell!

    • @ELAINEMORRIS1
      @ELAINEMORRIS1 9 лет назад

      My uncle served under Patton. HE did say, "The man gets respect....his guts and our blood."

  • @kevinhealey6540
    @kevinhealey6540 6 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @brianchase9251
    @brianchase9251 7 лет назад +15

    Complete fiction. Everything about this CBS interview and the O'Reilly's book is complete fiction. General Patton was not injured/killed in an accident with a "car" as O'Reilly claims. His car was hit by a very large U.S. Army truck. Patton was murdered. Patton, like many other military commanders at the "end" of WW2, knew that it was time to take on the Russians and push them back to Russia. This would avoid a communist occupation of Eastern Europe. He got one thing right. Russia was basically down to its last bullet at the end of the war and America was fully supplied in Europe with more supplies crossing the Atlantic. Truman took the easy way out by declaring "victory in Europe," because he simply didn't know what he was doing. Patton was quite vocal about this, and extending the war into fighting the Russians to avoid the Cold War. That's what got him murdered. Not by a "car," but by a U.S. military truck. Google it.

    • @Joe-kb1sm
      @Joe-kb1sm 6 лет назад +1

      Brian you are exactly right........Joseph Patton.

    • @randallanthony1794
      @randallanthony1794 6 лет назад +1

      one thing truman was in with the globalists.

    • @brianchase9251
      @brianchase9251 5 лет назад

      @@Joe-kb1sm It amazes me that this CBS crew sat there and bought all of this crap from this shlock journalist. And I have never used the word "amaze" with more meaning. Unbelievable.

  • @luciusvorenus9445
    @luciusvorenus9445 11 месяцев назад +1

    Patton was the American General Officer that the German Command feared most.

  • @paulpisano8538
    @paulpisano8538 10 лет назад +11

    the red ball express was formed to keep patton supplied.

  • @paulsimmons5726
    @paulsimmons5726 5 лет назад +2

    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!

  • @aa64912
    @aa64912 5 лет назад +8

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

  • @johnburns4017
    @johnburns4017 6 лет назад +3

    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

    • @bigwoody4704
      @bigwoody4704 5 лет назад +1

      Which would made him Chief of Staff in The British Army.Go take a swim in the Channel an old British Tradition

    • @carminepetrangelo5732
      @carminepetrangelo5732 Год назад

      Exactly. He was good but not great. I saw the movie. O’reilly is just selling books for money. I see through that

  • @AmWestColl
    @AmWestColl 6 лет назад +4

    Patton was a hero !

  • @AwesomeBeatles
    @AwesomeBeatles 8 лет назад +24

    It is obvious The US was occupied during this time, Because The US was fighting on the wrong side of the war. The world owes Germany an apology. Please view a video titled "Benjamin Freedman 1961 Speech".

    • @Ascending4111
      @Ascending4111 8 лет назад

      Great speech by a wealthy Jew businessman. Thanks for sharing.

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад

      People seem to think that the media control via propaganda has just started recently. It has been active for a long time.

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад

      b52gf16c------You have to listen to the whole thing. You can find it on RUclips. It covers quite a bit.

  • @setituptoblowitup
    @setituptoblowitup Год назад +4

    Thay didn't want him getting into politics😵‍💫

  • @flightparamedic505
    @flightparamedic505 7 лет назад +38

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

  • @williameudy6615
    @williameudy6615 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @chris93703
    @chris93703 10 лет назад +7

    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.

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад +4

      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.

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      @@WILTALK Baloney

  • @tjschoenlein5189
    @tjschoenlein5189 5 лет назад +6

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

  • @armyveteran868
    @armyveteran868 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @MrSkegman
    @MrSkegman 10 лет назад +11

    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.

    • @justinz1619
      @justinz1619 7 лет назад

      I'm not sure why but your comment brought tears to my eyes..

  • @freddyflintstoned913
    @freddyflintstoned913 6 лет назад +1

    Virginia and it's fertile soil has grown the best Generals. Washington, Lee and George Patton's grandfather were all born in Virginia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton_Sr.

  • @anthonyagnone5440
    @anthonyagnone5440 5 лет назад +3

    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.

  • @andrewmanzi2969
    @andrewmanzi2969 4 года назад +2

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

  • @carlmichael29
    @carlmichael29 10 лет назад +12

    Read the book its a good read.

    • @philvent9479
      @philvent9479 5 лет назад

      Its a bs book .. OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..

    • @phyllisfager6689
      @phyllisfager6689 4 месяца назад

      As are the rest of killing books

  • @chrishuey766
    @chrishuey766 9 лет назад +3

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

  • @lurking0death
    @lurking0death 4 года назад +4

    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.

  • @r.b.somers2052
    @r.b.somers2052 5 лет назад +1

    Bringing O'Reily back bit by bit ...

  • @robertmalton4102
    @robertmalton4102 6 лет назад +4

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

    • @philvent9479
      @philvent9479 5 лет назад

      OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..

  • @davecopp9356
    @davecopp9356 9 месяцев назад +1

    Like Alfred Heerhausen, Patton spoke about who the real enemy was.

  • @mariafarrell4510
    @mariafarrell4510 5 лет назад +22

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

    • @ssgus3682
      @ssgus3682 5 лет назад +4

      He is buried with his Soldiers

    • @marstuber2836
      @marstuber2836 5 лет назад +1

      Stfu Maria, as a woman you should not say anything about him and reburrying him.

  • @claykemper7193
    @claykemper7193 5 лет назад +1

    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?

  • @kathrynmcmorrow7170
    @kathrynmcmorrow7170 8 лет назад +7

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

  • @ThomasDillon-z6u
    @ThomasDillon-z6u Месяц назад

    I knew a WW2 veteran that knew Patton. He told me this same story in 1978.

  • @TheBlueBronco
    @TheBlueBronco 9 лет назад +5

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

  • @jv2320
    @jv2320 8 лет назад +1

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

    • @carminepetrangelo5732
      @carminepetrangelo5732 Год назад

      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.

  • @reggierico
    @reggierico 5 лет назад +10

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

    • @philvent9479
      @philvent9479 5 лет назад

      OReilly a gate keeper for the real people who killed him..

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      There is no mystery. The facts are very well known and O'reilly is just a huckster.

  • @stankygeorge
    @stankygeorge 5 лет назад +2

    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!

  • @frankthespank
    @frankthespank 4 года назад +2

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

  • @joshuabeatty7406
    @joshuabeatty7406 5 лет назад +4

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

  • @DavidWilliams-el4zt
    @DavidWilliams-el4zt 4 года назад +3

    Patton was rubbed out

  • @PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx
    @PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx 3 года назад +1

    His resemblance to another strategic genius is uncanny

    • @vincentgiasullo
      @vincentgiasullo 3 года назад

      I wouldn’t call Trump strategic.

    • @PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx
      @PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx 3 года назад

      He didnt become a billionaire and president without it. He literally wrote a book on strategy.

    • @vincentgiasullo
      @vincentgiasullo 3 года назад

      @@PatriotWatchdog-nb7sx he’s a con artist…..but he’s not stupid either I’ll give you that.

  • @wesleyhite8203
    @wesleyhite8203 4 года назад +4

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

    • @executivedirector7467
      @executivedirector7467 Год назад

      No you didn't. If you read this book you will become less knowledgable. O'Reilly hasn't got a clue.

  • @horaceball5418
    @horaceball5418 9 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @scottspooner6070
    @scottspooner6070 6 лет назад +4

    America needs to bring Patton home.

    • @gulfrelay2249
      @gulfrelay2249 6 лет назад +2

      Scott Spooner the family did so.he himself asked to be buried where he fell.

  • @CMRinehart
    @CMRinehart 6 лет назад

    When you see footage of Hitler just before Germany fell going along and shaking hands with the youth soldiers, he was a wreck. His hand shaking when he held it behind him, and just the catatonic look he had, you could tell he wasn’t long for the world.

  • @AwesomeBeatles
    @AwesomeBeatles 9 лет назад +8

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

  • @seancorreia2495
    @seancorreia2495 3 года назад +2

    Patton would be disgusted over Afghanistan and I'm sure he would slap someone

  • @johnmoraites6020
    @johnmoraites6020 5 лет назад +3

    He was MURDERED

  • @duggydugg3937
    @duggydugg3937 Год назад +1

    wish the assassins got the same medicine

  • @indianastan
    @indianastan 6 лет назад +5

    The swamp existed even back then in 1940s

  • @michaelpatton7365
    @michaelpatton7365 6 лет назад +2

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

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 6 лет назад

      michael patton The wrong enemy dude.

    • @anthonyagnone5440
      @anthonyagnone5440 5 лет назад

      Michael.
      My grandfather, RAFAELLO AGNONE handmade the 2 cashmere coats for GSP.
      Do you know where they are?

  • @pointman1dmzpatrol116
    @pointman1dmzpatrol116 10 лет назад +6

    I served under General Wesley Clark and in some ways he's a lot like Patton. General Clark wouldn't have slapped a soldier in the face, but he would demand that soldiers be soldiers, willing to engage the enemy. I like General Clark because he's the best war planner on this planet. Back during the days of Patton, those such as General Clark would be selected as Secretary of defense, or be selected for a foreign ambassador position. I like President Obama, but he's surrounded himself with a bunch of political hacks. Political hacks are afraid of those such as general Clark, simply because today's political hacks are as dumb as a bag of rocks.

    • @WILTALK
      @WILTALK 6 лет назад +2

      Political hacks are easy to control. Do not think that generals appointed back then were not political. Every general that makes it on to the Joint Chiefs of Staff or politics is political in some way or the other.

    • @williamdean4101
      @williamdean4101 6 лет назад

      Pointman#1--political hacks, liars, cheats, thieves, dishonest, disgusting, evil, wicked, vicious, mean, nasty, treasonous, treacherous traitorous government officials are smart enough to live off your and my tax dollars their entire lives.

    • @MTknitter22
      @MTknitter22 3 года назад +1

      WILTALK yes Clark was revealed later to be a vain, super egocentric political hack.
      He is not respected by many who served with him.

  • @DavidWilliams-el4zt
    @DavidWilliams-el4zt 4 года назад +2

    Patton was Silenced....

  • @stevelove5125
    @stevelove5125 7 лет назад +6

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

    • @albertvelasquez7089
      @albertvelasquez7089 5 лет назад

      Didn't the German high comand refer to general Patten as violent

  • @jjeherrera
    @jjeherrera 9 лет назад +1

    The best allied general BY FAR. Indeed, his views were inconvenient for the postwar appeasement process, so if it was an accident, many people were glad about it. On the other hand, I can imagine how a man of action like him would have felt at the prospect of remaining quadriplegic.. He might as well have committed suicide. Wonder if we'll ever know.

  • @George19532009
    @George19532009 5 лет назад +3

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

  • @TEXCAP
    @TEXCAP 11 месяцев назад

    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

  • @skipsassy1
    @skipsassy1 8 лет назад +3

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