Subject: RE: PIPE LINE WWII
Jim,
I finished “Target: Patton” by Robert Wilcox –
learned some amazing stuff. I highly recommend this book.
Some of what I learned is very disturbing.
Eisenhower, Marshall, and Bradley knowingly left over 20,000
U.S. POWs in the hands of the Russians (the number may even be much
higher). They were simply abandoned in order to placate Stalin. Patton knew all
about this because his troops discovered some of the German POW camps in the
Russian zone where the Americans were held. Stalin’s intention was to hold them
as hostages in order to secure his plans to control Eastern Europe, but he
never released them and would never discuss them or even acknowledge their
existence. Later Truman and Eisenhower were afraid take on the Russians over
this issue. It is painful to think about those poor guys. (So the issue of the
MIAs left behind in Laos and Vietnam had a sorry precedent – typical of
leftists.)
Also Patton’s Third Army uncovered huge caches of German gold
and other treasure, including a great deal of fine art looted from
German-controlled areas throughout Europe. He discovered that certain high
level Americans were stealing this stuff. He actually started an investigation
of the thefts. This was one of the reasons he was removed from command of the
Third Army as soon as the war ended.
He was planning to resign from the Army so they could not gag
him as a retired officer on a military pension (he was independently wealthy).
His intentions were to then expose all this corruption, as well as Eisenhower’s
and Montgomery’s many mistakes in the conduct of the war, once he got back to
civilian life. He was not circumspect about his intentions, and many
high-ranking military officers and civilian officials felt very threatened by
what he knew and his clearly stated intentions.
In the case of Eisenhower, it was well-known that he had
political aspirations and was extremely concerned about the many embarrassing
times that Patton had pulled his chestnuts out of the fire and Eisenhower had
taken all the credit.
The ugliest episode is the Falaise Gap fiasco. This occurred in
1944, when Patton was 40 miles from having several Nazi divisions encircled in
France. If he had been allowed to close the gap, the Germans could not have
continued the war. Eisenhower, who had made promises to the incompetent
Montgomery that the British would accompany the U.S. forces into Berlin, ordered
Patton to halt his army and leave the gap open for the Germans to escape.
Patton was furious, but he was already in hot water over several previous
incidents in which he refused to follow bad orders, so he felt he had to follow
orders in this case, feeling that he could catch up to the Germans later (which
never happened due to more bad decisions by Eisenhower and Marshall and the
dilatory conduct of the British under Montgomery).
Because of this, the war was unnecessarily extended into
mid-1945, resulting in that horrible winter disaster in the Ardennes Forest
known as the Battle of the Bulge. (Wikipedia states 89,000 casualties in the
Battle of the Bulge, including 19,000 deaths. Wilcox puts the total casualties
in the Ardennes as over 100,000.)
This too resulted from a poor strategic decision by Eisenhower,
leaving the Ardennes lightly defended and using it as an R&R area, of which
the German’s were well-aware. So that was the precise area where the Germans
attempted to penetrate the Allied lines and separate the British and American
forces in a desperate push toward Antwerp where they hoped to capture the port.
(This book sure changed my perception of Eisenhower. The press
concealed much of this information. The American people know little of it. I
was based in Kansas City with TWA when Eisenhower died. We had a friend from
Abilene, KS where the Eisenhower funeral was to be held. We drove to Abilene to
attend the funeral with our friend and stayed at her family’s home in Abilene.
They knew the Eisenhower family. I thought I was showing my respect for a great
man by attending his funeral. Now I detest the man.)
General Patton’s phone lines were tapped by both U.S. Army
Intelligence (CIC) and the NKVD. He knew this, but refused to shut up in his conversations
with close friends in the Army.
They had to get rid of him. There is still no certain proof of
assassination, but the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. The author
makes a strong case for opening a new investigation of the Patton death in
order to clear the historical record. Unfortunately, such an investigation
would almost certainly expose the fact that FDR’s administration was
effectively controlled by the NKVD (predecessor of the KGB), so powerful forces
do not want this to happen.
It is left unsaid, but it begs the question of whether or not
FDR was actually a Soviet agent if virtually everybody around him were Soviet
agents, apparently including OSS Chief William Donovan (who died a bitter and
broken man).
One of the books mentioned frequently as a source by the author
(Robert Wilcox) is a book titled “Maquis” by a former British Army
officer and intelligence operative who worked with the French Resistance
in France named George Millar. This is the story of his experience after being
parachuted into France and hooking up with the Resistance. Millar also had
information about a plot to eliminate Patton. “Maquis” was the code name for
the Resistance, and both U.S. and British agents were dropped into France behind
the German lines. They were very effective in sabotaging German operations, but
many of them were captured and killed after severe torture.
So far, the book is fascinating.
DL
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Still impressive after
all these years. Jim
Subject:
PIPE LINE WWII..
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1 comment:
My father fought in Patton's third Armored and Dad despised Eisenhower his whole life but would not explain why because that would require him to talk about the war and that was something he would not do!
This also explains why FDR was assassinated in office, which was covered up by the government and explained as a final bout with Polio.
FDR was shot through the head.
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