General Patton

General Patton By Steven Bunch General George S. Patton was regarded as the fightingest general in all of the allied forces. He was considerably more aggressive than most other commanders, and his martial ferocity may very well have been the deciding factor which led to the allied victory. Patton believed deeply in reincarnation. Everywhere he traveled he said he had fought in a battle there thousands of years ago. His mouth got him in a …

…from the last bullet, in the last gun, in the last war. Despite the fact that throughout his military career he had constantly exposed himself to danger, it was a traffic accident, not a bullet, which took Patton's life. In December 1945, his car was hit by a truck and he was severely injured. On 21 December he died from these injures and was buried in Luxembourg, a country which still considers George S. Patton its liberator.