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LEO schreef:
De aanval op Yamamoto lukte dan weer wel.

LEO schreef:US inlichtingdienst kwam via een gekraakte Japanse code erachter dat Yamamoto zich per vliegtuig zou verplaatsen naar de Salomonseilanden.

Zijn vliegtuig werdt boven Bougainville opgewacht door jachtvliegtuigen die vertrokken vanop Henderson field op Guadalcanal.

Het vliegtuig stortte neer in de brousse. Het lijk van Yamamoto werdt gevonden met zijn samoerai zwaard nog tussen zijn benen.

Bron: JPG HILTERMANN, Wereldoorlog II, deel 2.

Demy schreef:Nu we het toch over complottheorien hebben...(ben altijd in voor een goeie!) Wat dachten jullie van het verkeersongeval van Patton kort na de oorlog?

Accident and death

On December 9, in Germany a day before he was due to return to the United States, Patton was severely injured in a road accident. He and his chief of staff, Major General Hobart R. 'Hap' Gay, were on a daytrip to hunt pheasants in the country outside Mannheim. Their 1939 Cadillac Model 75 was driven by PFC Horace Woodring (1926 - 2003). Patton sat in the back seat, on the right with General Gay on his left, as per custom. At 11:45 near Neckarstadt, (Käfertal), a 2½ ton truck driven by T/5 Robert L. Thompson appeared out of the haze and made a left-hand turn towards a side road. The Cadillac smashed into the truck. General Patton was thrown forward and his head struck a metal part of the partition between the front and back seats. Gay and Woodring were uninjured. Paralyzed from the neck down, George Patton died of an embolism on December 21, 1945 at the military hospital in Heidelberg, Germany with his wife present.

Patton was buried at the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial in Hamm, Luxembourg along with other members of the Third Army[8]. His body was moved from the original grave site in the cemetery to its current prominent location at the head of his former troops. A cenotaph was placed at the Wilson-Patton family plot at the San Gabriel Cemetery in San Gabriel, California, adjacent to the Church of Our Saviour (Episcopal), where Patton was baptised. In the narthex of the sanctuary of the church is a stained glass window honor which features, among other highlights of Patton's career, a picture of him riding in a tank. A statue of General Patton is in the court yard adjacent to the church.

Patton's car was repaired and used by other officers. The car is now on display, with other Patton artifacts, at the Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor at Fort Knox, Kentucky.

Wouter schreef:Een Amerikaan bestuurde de vrachtwagen.. en waarom zouden de Amerikanen nou een van hun topgeneraals weg willen hebben... Patton's ongeluk is geen voer voor een complottheorie. De verdwijning van Bormann daarentegen wel...