8
This history is based on what Angela told me, personal papers and documents of his she has, and records I found in U.S. repositories.
10
Brian M. Sobel,
The Fighting Pattons
(Dell, 1997), 77.
11
At least they did before the current era of Islamic terrorism.
12
In a 28 May 1952 “Request For Army Information” in his file, the exact wording
is, “There is no record on file in this office of autopsy report or any indication that an autopsy was performed.” Why and by who the request was made is not stated.
13
National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis.
15
Dated 18 December 1945 and addressed “To: Provost Marshal” (sic), National Archives.
Chapter Sixteen: Stop Patton!
1
Charles Province,
The Unknown Patton
(Bonanza, 1983), 60; For Patton’s pre-use discussion of the plan, Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 482.
2
George S. Patton Jr.,
War as I Knew It
(New York: Bantam, 1980), 89.
3
Col. Robert S. Allen.,
Lucky Forward: Patton’s Third Army
(Manor Books, 1947, 1977), 86. Allen was co-author with Drew Pearson of the book and subsequent column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, and Washington bureau chief for
The Christian Science Monitor
before his death in 1981.
4
Albin F. Irzyk,
Gasoline To Patton: A Different War
(Oakland: Elderberry Press, Inc., 2005), 101; Gen. James M. Gavin,
On To Berlin
(New York: Bantam, 1979), 129.
7
Richard Rohmer,
Patton’s Gap, An Account of the Battle of Normandy 1944
(Beaufort Books, Inc., 1981), 176.
8
William B. Breuer,
Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket
(Scarborough House, 1985), 295.
9
Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 508, 511.
10
Fred Ayer Jr.,
Before the Colors Fade
(Dunwoody: Norman S. Berg, publisher, 1971), 151-152.
11
Gasoline To Patton
, 117-118.
14
Before the Colors Fade,
190.
15
Gasoline To Patton,
127;
On To Berlin,
136.
16
OSS Reports to the White House, Jan-April 13, 45, Carlisle Barracks.
18
War as I Knew It,
116;
The Patton Papers,
531.
19
Stephen E. Ambrose,
Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment
(University of Mississippi Press, 1999) (originally published by Doubleday 1981), 135.
20
The Patton Papers,
556; David Irving,
The War Between the Generals
(Congden & Weed, 1981), 282.
22
Gasoline To Patton,
123.
23
Diary entry September 17, 1944, found in
Patton Papers
, 550.
28
Ibid., 549; also
War as I Knew It
, 127. The italics are mine.
29
War as I Knew It
, 158-159;
Patton Papers
, 571.
32
Thomas Parrish,
Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of World War II,
(Simon and Schuster, 1978), 91.
Chapter Seventeen: The Car That Isn’t
2
A quarterly magazine published by Triumph Motorcycles.
3
Doug Houston, “General George S. Patton: A Tale of Two Classics,”
Torque
, March-April, 1980.
4
These letters are contained in the museum publication, “The Patton Cadillac.”
Chapter Eighteen: Problem Child
1
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: Berkley, 1981), 30.
2
Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 644-645.
5
Last Days,
29. Farago took the scene from Omar N. Bradley,
A Soldier’s Story
(Modern Library, 1999), 521
6
Nothing explicit was visible in the photo, though he was standing in a likely position, hands below the waist.
8
Richard Baron, Major Abe Baum, and Richard Goldhurst,
Raid! The Untold Story of Patton’s Secret Mission
(Dell, 2000), 250.
9
The Patton Papers
, 675-676
10
Ladislas Farago,
Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
(Dell, 1970), 778.
11
Charles Whiting,
Patton’s Last Battle
(New York, Stein and Day, 1987), 149.
12
See anti-fascist Dwight Macdonald’s “The Ordeal of George Patton,” The New York Review of Books, December 31, 1964; Orville Prescott, “Books of the Times,”
New York Times,
February 27, 1946.
13
William R. Wilson, “Jimmy Doolittle Reminiscences about World War II,”
American History Magazine
, August 1997.
15
Bradley F. Smith,
Sharing Secrets with Stalin: How the Allies Traded Intelligence,
1941-1945
(University Press of Kansas, 1996), 164.
17
Steve Neal, H
arry and Ike: The Partnership that remade the Postwar World
(Touchstone, 2001), 53. The period, the end of the war until early 1946, is crucial because it led to 50 years of Cold War.
18
Bruce Lee,
Marching Orders: The Untold Story of World War II
(New York: Crown, 1995); Robert Murphy,
Diplomat Among Warriors
(Pyramid Books, 1964); and Victor Davis Hanson, “What Would Patton Say About the Present War?,”
Imprimis
, October 23, 2004.
19
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
Wedemeyer Reports
(New York: Henry Hold & Company, 1958), 370.
20
For details see
FDR’s Last Year, The New Dealers’ War,
or
Roosevelt’s Secret War,
among others.
21
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin,
The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB
(Basic Books, 1999);
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West
(Penguin Press, 1999).
22
Ibid. 133-134 and 175-176 respectively.
23
Jonah Goldberg, “Reconsidering Yalta,”
National Review
Online, May 11, 2005.
24
To the friendly countries and innocent and unfortunate people sacrificed.
27
Marching Orders,
368-369, 391-393.
29
Albin F. Irzyk,
Gasoline To Patton: A Different War
(Oakland: Elderberry Press, Inc., 2005), 243.
30
Tom Agoston,
Blunder!: How the U.S. gave away Nazi Supersecrets to Russia
(Dodd, Mead & Co., 1985).
34
Charles B. Odom, General George S. Patton and Eisenhower Word Picture Productions (New Orleans: 1985).
36
As discussed in Chapter 12, D. A. Lande quotes Woodring in
I Was With Patton
(274) that Patton “rarely ever [italics Lande’s] sat on the edge of his seat.”
Chapter Nineteen: Marked Man
1
Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer,
Wedemeyer Reports
(New York: Henry Hold & Company, 1958), 222.
2
Larry G. Newman, “Gen. Patton’s Premonition: An account of a press conference at which the General sounded a grim warning,”
The American Legion
magazine, July 1962.
4
Charles Whiting,
Patton’s Last Battle
(New York, Stein and Day, 1987), 196.
5
Martin Blumenson,
The Patton Papers 1940-1945
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 712.
6
Fred Ayer Jr.,
Before the Colors Fade
(Dunwoody: Norman S. Berg, publisher, 1971). 240.
8
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: Berkley, 1981), 84-85.
9
Ruth Ellen Patton Totten,
The Button Box: A Daughter’s Loving Memoir of Mrs. George S. Patton
(University of Missouri Press, 2005), 349.
10
John Loftus,
The Belarus Secret
(New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 48.
11
Charles Lutton, “Stalin’s War: Victims and Accomplices,”
Journal of Historical Review
, 4, Vol. 20, 2001. (
http://www.vho.org/GB/
Journals/JHR/5/1/Lutton84-94. html).
12
Mark Elliott,
Pawns of Yalta
, (University of Illinois Press, 1982), 106; Douglas Botting and Ian Sayer,
America’s Secret Army: The Untold Story of the Counter Intelligence Corps,
(London: Fontana Publishers, 1990), 338-339.
13
Ladislas Farago,
The Last Days of Patton
(New York: Berkley, 1981), 129-130.
15
Ibid., 188. Dorn’s background is on page 184.
18
Mark Perry,
Partners In Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace
(New York: Penguin Press, 2007), 369.
19
Patton Diary, August 27, 1945, Library of Congress.
21
Patton Diary, August 29, 1945.
22
“Footnotes to Greatness: A Review of Patton: A Soldier’s Life”
24
Mark Skubik, Email to author, August 6, 2005.
25
Allen Weinstein, and Alexander Vassiliev,
The Haunted Wood
(Modern Library, 2000), 255.
26
Last Days,
192-193; also Carlo D’Este,
A Genius For War
(HarperPerennial, 1996)., 763-764.
27
Robert Murphy,
Diplomat Among Warriors
(Pyramid Books, 1964), 329-330; E.H. Cookridge,
Gehlen: Spy of the Century
(New York: Pyramid Books, 1973), 197.
28
From an edited passage of Khokhlov’s 1959 book,
In the Name of Conscience
, printed in
The Times of London
, December 1, 2006.
30
Gen. James M. Gavin,
On To Berli
n (New York: Bantam, 1979), 293.
32
Lucius D. Clay,
Decision in Germany,
(New York: Doubleday & Co., 1950), 104 -105.
33
Before the Colors Fade,
245.
34
Stephen J. Skubik,
Death: The Murder of General Patton;
(Bennington: self published, 1993), Foreword.
35
Robert Murphy,
Diplomat Among Warriors
(Pyramid Books, 1964), 330.
37
Jeffrey St. John, “The Press and General Patton,” Patton Society Research Library.
39
The Patton Papers,
789-790.
40
Russell Hill, “Patton Removal Praised in Red Zone of Berlin,”
New York Herald Tribune
, October 5, 1945.
41
George S. Patton Jr.,
War as I Knew It
(New York: Bantam, 1980), 366.
Chapter Twenty: Into the Night
1
Ian Sayer & Douglas Botting,
Nazi Gold: The Sensational Story of the World’s Greatest Robbery—and the Greatest Criminal Cover-Up
(Mainstream Publishing, 2003); I was unable to confirm with Guiness.
2
Stephen J. Skubik,
Death: The Murder of General Patton;
(Bennington: self published, 1993), 6.
3
Charles Whiting,
Patton’s Last Battle
(New York, Stein and Day, 1987).
4
See
Soldiers of Misfortune: Washington’s Secret Betrayal of American PO Ws in the Soviet Union
by James D. Sanders.
5
M.G. Brown, “Mikhail Gorbachev, Let Our People Go,” Parts 1 & 2,
The New American,
May & June 1990.