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Please don't mention any names ending in "stein", "witz", "berg" and such and we can probably make for a good discussion...

I just don't trust Patton because he wore a SAA instead of a 1911. Then again he did shoot down that airplane with a 1911 in the movie so I guess he's okay.

I just don't trust Patton because he wore a SAA instead of a 1911. Then again he did shoot down that airplane with a 1911 in the movie so I guess he's okay.

That was an '03 Hammerless.

EL CORRECTO, but he didn't shoot it down...

I didn't want to give two corrections in one post.

I remember watching that movie “Brass Target” as a kid and the only thing I remember about it was a specially designed airgun that broke Patton’s neck. So, I find that part of the story on Target Patton to be suspect.

Like I said, it’s really a lot more interesting in describing the conditions over there at the immediate end of the war than anything.

...Fromthe day Patton died in 1945 until thirty years later,nobody seriously discussed that a conspiracy lay behind hisdeath. This idea sounded intriguing to Frederick Nolan, a British author who had signed a contract to write eight full length thrillers in a year. In 1974, within six weeks, Nolan finished his first fiction, titled “The Oshawa Project,”published a year later in the U.S. under the title of “The Algonquin Project.” It was a quick job, very “seventies,”along the storyline of Frederick Forsyth’s “Day of the Jackal.”He did no research whatsoever, let alone interview Patton’s passengers General Gay and Woodring. According to his website, “what you write doesn’t matter, only how good it is.”And even though the book was obviously a fiction about a murder plot of a fictional general, the illustration on the cover of Patton and the many similarities in the text with Patton must have planted the seed about the possibility of a plot. And its commercial potential. With the success of the Hollywood movie “Patton” in the back of their minds, MGM bought the rights to turn Nolan’s thriller into a movie. To Nolan’s chagrin, the MGM scriptwriter took the Nazi gold story from Nolan’s other fiction, “The Mittenwald Syndicate,”and mixed it with the murder plot story. Released in December 1978under the title “Brass Target,”the movie was poor at best. Nolan himself speculates that was the reason why none of the stars joined the promotion tour. At the last minute he and Woodring were asked to do the nationwide promotion instead. Woodring went alongto tell the truth about Patton’sdeath: it was an accident pure and simple, said Woodring; “My purpose was to set the record straight. The movie certainly didn’t.”But Nolan’s stance changed from a fictional story into “maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t.”It was a cynical exploitation to sell the movie to the audience at the expense of historical accuracy. Here, by mixing the storylines of two fictional thrillers into amovie, is the birth of a conspiracy theory that lasts until today.Since then, manyothers have jumped on theconspiracybandwagon...

Yes, by all means, we must consult Snopes on the matter, LOL.

I think it was this book that said that the reason he carried SAA instead of a 1911 was because of a negligent discharge he had in a Mexican saloon while carrying a 1911 in his belt.

He carried just about everything. But the SAA and his registered magnum were his signature guns.

He had two SAA's at one time but gifted one of the set.

My Uncle served under Patton during the Battle of the Bugle.