Gen. George S. Patton III would die in 1945 from injuries sustained in a car accident while going on a pheasant hunting trip. The trip was planned by his chief of staff to lift his spirits after ...
George Patton’s paternal grandfather ... of the war’, he died on December 21 1945 as a result of a traffic accident near Mannheim in Germany. At his own request, he was buried at the US ...
George S. Patton Jr. Audacious and profane ... Patton was killed in an automobile accident in Germany.