Found this video by pure accident. I've read about the end in the classic Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, one of the two books the movie Patton was based on (the other is Omar Bradley's A Soldier's Story).
I remember one of the scenes of the movie, where he almost gets killed by an ox cart. His actual cause of death was almost as unbelievable, especially for a man well described as, "A pure warrior...what a magnificent anachronism."
RIP General Patton.
This past week I saw Hernando Cortez' "tomb". As far as I can tell it's only a plaque on a wall in a church.
ReplyDeleteWhen he was first buried, he had a simple cross matching the other soldiers, and was buried next to a private from Detroit. I read recently he was moved to a more isolated place in the graveyard because many people wanted to get close to that grave, and they were walking on the other graves. I don't think Patton would like being moved a few yards from his soldiers, but I know he would be pissed by the thought of people walking on their final resting sites.
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