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The other “accident,” just a few weeks before, on April 10, 1945, is even more suspicious. Patton was visiting units in his light observation plane when four Polish Spitfires supposedly mistook his tiny aircraft for a Nazi fighter and attacked it. While three circled and acted almost as lookouts, the fourth Spitfire made repeated attacks. If not for the ground hugging and evasion skills of Patton’s pilot, the general surely would have been killed. As it was, the attacking Spitfire couldn’t pull up after one of its steep diving attacks and crashed. The Russians by that time controlled Poland. Patton was livid, and an aide accompanying him in the plane vowed to find out what happened. But to this day, there is scant information about the attack beyond what both wrote in their diaries.

I guess it's "possible" they mistook his aircraft for a similar German aircraft, the Fleischer Storch...

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Posted by White Roach

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Posted on 12/22/14 at 3:31 pm to Darth_Vader

Thanks, that's an "interesting" article...

Patton was pretty vocal in his opinion that the Russians were a threat to the U.S. and it's interests. I've previously heard some of the assassination plot rumors, but not about the Spitfire attack. Actual assassination attempt or fog of war... Who knows?

There was a made for TV movie in the mid-70s called Brass Target. George Kennedy played the role of Patton.

(SPOILER ALERT for any Movie Board posters who've stumbled into this thread!)

I don't remember the entire plot line, but it involved Nazi gold (that was not already stolen by Kelly's Heros) and an assassin with bullet made of wood or wax or something that wasn't lead (like John Malkovich in In The Line of Fire). Staged car accident, expert rifle shot to cervical vertebrae, untraceable bullet disintegrates, and America's greatest wartime general is dead (a week or ten days later).

After seeing the movie, I told my father that I had no idea Patton had been assassinated. His response was (approximately), "That's because he wasn't. He broke his neck in a car accident."

Now I don't know who to believe!

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