George Patton Survives

Patton knew the political game -[You don't become a Major General with out being able to play], But disliked Politics.
He would have ended up in Korea, commanding all US Armored Forces.

Patton is one of the Few Americans With a Ego to Match MacArthur's.
He would have paid attention to the Chinese Warnings about the Yalu, and more Important, Been able to go Face to Face with MacArthur over them.
 

Ace_General

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He would of Shoved America's boot up china's ass in Korea but eventually the war would end cause to may people died

Or he would start WW3 in Europe, and if he did it around the time of the McCarthyists, he would probley get his way
 
Unlike MacArthur, Patton realized the speed of modern communications. IOW, he knew the minute his forces crossed the Yalu; Soviet Forces would make trouble in the West. He also understood the weakness of Allied Forces in Europe.

Mac was seemingly oblivious to the "modern" situation. He acted like the American viceroy with plenipotentiary powers. Again IOW, he acted as if what he was doing in Korea would not have nearly instantaneous consequences on the other side of the world. The PRC and the USSR did have radio and telegraphic links.

More importantly, Patton would take orders from Bradly then chairman of the JCS. He may not like them but he would obey them.
 
He would of Shoved America's boot up china's ass in Korea but eventually the war would end cause to may people died

Or he would start WW3 in Europe, and if he did it around the time of the McCarthyists, he would probley get his way

Why would he start World War 3 in Europe and if he tried he'd be sacked by Truman.
 
lets see how he would do it

I'm taking a spring in a different direction.
In the very underrated Patton sequal, he is of course paralysed.
He talks to his dr, about how we will be at war with russia, within five years. "I'll have to plan the next war, from a state of invalidism,"
What if he survives, and is main a advisor, sort of a Dean Achenson of, the armed forces? He would handle a disabilty, well with an army, no pun intended of helpers. Lets see, how he would map out the concquest of the prc. As a disabled person myself, i know his survival is possible even then. He would be another Arthur sillls. Whose that?the most famous disabled poitlican after FDR.
 
Patton was leaving Europe, his accident was either the day before or shortly before he was to leave. Remember that Patton had money, alot of money, and he was technically leaving Europe in disgrace, or at the very least inEisenhowers black book. He was famous and infamous at the same time but he didn't have the MacArthur knack for the big picture, just the ego, and I don't believe he could really survive inthe army after WWII. Not with his politics. Not with his enemies. Patton goes home, still a heroic figure, but bound to say something very loudly that will land him in hot water sooner rather than later. He was a man born in the wrong time, and the wrong place, better suited to the constant possibilities of war as a medieval knight than a cold warrior.
 

Typo

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If I remember correctly the congressional district that patton would have ran under had he entered politics was also that of Richard Nixon's.

Big changes even if he doesn't stay in the military.
 

burmafrd

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If you read some of the entries from his diaries that did not make it into his book "War As I Knew It" that were published not long ago you can see that he did have a feel for the big picture. ALso while he was commander of 3rd Army he insisted that his G-2 give an up to date briefing on the Pacific War at least twice a month. And that included the China Theatre as well as Burma and the rest.
Its interesting that until the end of the cold war more then a few thought that he was right about taking the Russians out back then. Then the cold war ended and that supposedly went away- now with the Russians under Putin starting things up again....
 
Its interesting that until the end of the cold war more then a few thought that he was right about taking the Russians out back then. Then the cold war ended and that supposedly went away- now with the Russians under Putin starting things up again....

Thats the age old question though isn't it? Would Americans have stood for a continuation of war? One where we might even have been thought of as the agressor? I doubt it. And thats saying nothing of the British that had been devestated by war for so long, the rest of Europe that had been occupied for years and was rubble strewn and shaky, I just don't see how Russia could ever be attacked that wouldn't bring about destruction and chaos.
 
If I remember correctly the congressional district that patton would have ran under had he entered politics was also that of Richard Nixon's.

Big changes even if he doesn't stay in the military.

Speaking of Patton in Congress I wonder what'd happen during the McCarthy paranoia if Patton was a congressman or senator.
 
Yeah, Patton's star in the Army had pretty much already burned out. He wouldn't be in Korea and wouldn't be in Europe.

Ike knew he didn't like the Russians any more than Ike liked Patton. He was already on the way out as already stated.

If Patton ran for office in 46 as a Congressman or Senator, that'd keep his name in the news and I could see him a Dewey's running mate in 48 as a vote-getter so to say.
 
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