I'll vote for Patton if he runs, no matter which party. I don't mind breaking the Southern Democrat tradition again.
He will run as a Republican if and when he runs.
is that 3 atom bombs that your not using. nuke the germans to save lives
oh how will you liberate Russia?
I do have 3 atom bombs that I am not using. I do not like to use atom bombs if I do not have to as I think they are cheap. I will only use it if I cannot make progress without them. All of the Eastern European Countries like Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic states will be liberated and the rest will either be one country or several. If it is several, it will be broken into Siberia, Primosk, and Russia, as I believe those are the three countries that can be formed out of the territories of Russia.
Patton-Goldwater in '64!
I can just imagine their television campaign ad. The two of them riding around in a jeep, running down America's problems.
It would be kinda like Bush's famous Tank Ride ad in 1988. The difference, of course, being that Patton would look better riding around than Dukakis did.
I can see that very well as well, especially as Patton is a tank commander.
I'd rather have someone else as the VP as someone else. Maybe Patton/Reagan?
I really do not know who his VP would be, as I am not familiar with a lot of the politicians of the 50's and 60's. While I am a history buff, as my name says, my interests to not go much farther then WWII. Also, I could not add in someone so if they are not already available as a VP, they cannot be selected.
Bradley had now been cooling his heels for several months. While his duties as Chief of Staff kept him plenty busy, he was still hungry for some action. He had not seen any real action for far to long and he feared that he might fall out of popularity if he did not get some soon, as public attention was continuosly drawn to Patton. He wanted the plan for India to go ahead, but the problem was that there were too many soldiers and too few ships to transport them. Also, in order for the attack to go ahead, The southern part of the Arabian peninsula would first have to be liberated, a task that was to be assigned to some African troops in the area. However, with the fall of Italy, Bradley thought he might have found a much easier way to get this job done. Italy had been in control of Ceylon, and with the surrender of Italy, that territory had passed to the Americans (ignore the part in one of the previous updates that said I gave them independence, I did not since they have no ministers). He therefore concoted a revision to the original plan. Instead of invading from Oman and landing at various points throughout India, he would house half of his forces in Oman while he housed the other half in Ceylon. Those in Oman would land on the West Coast of India, those in Ceylon would land in the south and in the East. All three forces would then move north, link up, and cut Persia and Northwestern India off from Burma, and denying the ability of the troops stationed their to retreat into Japanese territory. This would be made even more effective if Japanese troops were to brought up to defend India, a not altogether unlikely occurence. German forces had helped the Japanese immensly in finally subduing China, it would threfore be not to unlikely that they should repay the debt by helping to defend India. He only hoped the attack could be assembled soon, as he feared that the command of the attack might fall to someone else if he waited to long. He had not idea of MacArthur's plan to invade on his own orders, but he did fear that Clark might decide to keep the advance going into India or that Truman might order someone else to head up the invasion. This was too be an issue for someone who many believed would be Truman's successor. He had been very close to Truman for some time, and many believed that Truman might pick him as his handpicked successor. He had learned a lot about politics from the man and he was a proven leader and therefore many believed him to be ideally suited to the position. The fame he had garnered by being Cheif of Staff for the majority of the war and from his liberation of Africa combined with the popularity boost he would get by being endorsed by Truman himself would make him incredibly likely to win any election. Of course, that was not taking into account Patton's private desires to run. These two men hated each other and they were not ashamed to show it. Bradley thought Patton to be an arrogant blowhard who was overly found of boasting. He also thought him to be overly aggressive and full of himself and lacking any diplomatic skill. Bradley also believed him to be a glory hound who cared too much for his own reputation. Patton in turn thought that Bradley was stuck up overly cautious and and ass kisser. He also thought of him as Truman's lapdog. However, they both acknowledged that if one of them ran, the only one with even the slightest chance of beating him would be the other one. If they ran against each other, it would be a fight and it was almost guaranteed to get ugly, and to get ugly fast, and this time, there would be no Truman to hold them back.
However, all of that would have to wait until the war was won, as no one besides Hitler seriously believed the Germans could win at this point. Indeed, they were already having partisan problems, and several regions in Russia had fallen to these Partisans.
It was becoming abundantly clear now that things were beginning to come apart at the seems. Clark was making preparations for an offensive into Persia by bringing up men from Turkey to the front lines
The America forces also continued their advance in Russia and gains were also being made in the Arctic Front against Finland with the fall of the great Northern port city of Murmansk.
In the Baltic, Latvia and Lithuania had fallen and Estonia was almost liberated as well, with only Narva remaining in German hands.
In Russia itself, it looked more and more like Patton would live up to his boast, as he and his men got closer and closer to the former Soviet capital. They had already advanced deep into the Russian heartland and had announced the liberation of the nation of Belorussia.
Most of the Ukraine, including the Crimea, had also been liberated and further advances were being carried out.
In the Pacific, things were also going well. Frustrated with by not being able to pull off any big offensives in the area, MacArthur had decided to order the liberation of the strategic island of new Britain and the important naval base of Rabaul that was located there. while escorting the troops there, Halsley's fleet was able to catch a Japanese fleet operating in the surrounding area and sink two Japanese Carriers, the Katsuragia and the Soryu
The Americans were able to take the island without any resistance, but Halsley managed to catch and sink another Japanese carrier, the Amagi as it was escaping.
When MacArthur was informed of this, he was stunned by the utter stupidity of the Japanese. He could not believe that they would be fool enough to commit three carriers to holding what was for all intents and purposes, a rather insignificant island. It was in prime postion to harrass the Americans, but other bases could be used for that as could land based bombers. Now the Japanese had lost three carriers they could barely afford to replace. things were looking better and better by the moment in the Pacific, as the best allied spies (I have the maximum ammount of spies possible in Japan) reported that the Japanese possessed no more carriers, however, they had been wrong before.
The Russian front was not static either during these events, and in the south, American forces had reached the Don river in some places and were fast approaching it in most others.
Advances were also being made all along the line.
By far the most important of these advances, however, was that of Patton himself. Patton had managed to take Smolensk and Vyzama after the liberation of Belorussia and had also just taken Mozhaisk. That meant their was now nothing standing between him and Moscow but the cities garrison, and it was too small to hold out for long.
In the Caucuses, The American forces stationed in the Crimea and those advancing south from the Ukraine had managed to encircle an enemy force in Krasnodar.
In the Arctic campaign, advances were also being made and 4 Finish divisions found themselves cut off and surrounded in Kola.
Back in Russia, two events happened of significance happened as well. The First was Patton reaching the gates of Moscow. He ordered an attack of his 12 divisions on the 4 divisions holding the city.
However, despite promising odds and having lost most of the city, the German soldiers, fighting under the eyes of their fuhrer himself, who it is rumored actually came out and took personal command of some of the troops, made a heroic stand at the Kremlin itself and refused to be dislodged. This stand forced the allied divisions to retreat. However, Patton remained determined to take the city and all he had to do was wait until the forces advancing south of the city were in position to give support from the South. With a two front attack, he felt sure the defenders would break.
the other event was the announcement of the liberation of the Ukraine by Patton. After years of foreign rule by one power after another, which was only broken for a brief period after WWI and before the Soviet takeover of the region, the Ukraine was finally free.
General Cates, who had been advancing through Estonia, also reached the city of Leningrad, which had been renamed Adolphsburg by the Germans. He immediately began an assault on the city. However, the defenders fought like demons and the assault failed to carry the city.
However, the other great city of Russia, Moscow soon met with a much different fate. After a lengthy and bloody battle for the city, it finally fell to a two pronged assault from North and South on September 2, 1958.
Patton entered the city soon after its fall and was welcomed by a massive crowd of people cheering him on, waving a mixture of Russian, American, and even the odd Soviet flag. people rushed his command car in an attempt to get a better look at the man who was their liberator. He had become a hero in Russia as he had in the rest of Europe. Patton described the scene as" something he had not seen the likes of since the liberation of Paris, which was the only other celebration to surpass this one". Caught up in the emotions of the moment, Patton gave a speech in which he swore to all those assembled that he would free them from the oppressive rule of their German conquerors and that he would not rest until he had done so. Patton was deeply moved by the reception he got. He had expected to be greeted rather warmly as a liberator, but nothing on the scale of this. "It is amazing", he recalled " Thirty years ago, I probably would have met nothing but scorn upon entering this city, I being a doctrinal enemy of the old Soviet Union, now they love me". While this was likely exaggerated, it was still enough to surprise him. It should not have been. After declaring war on the Germans, thinking they could easily crush them, distracted as they were at the time in Scandinavia and Britain, the Soviet Union had suffered one disaster after another at the hands of the Germans. They soon suffered reverses far greater then the reverses that had caused the crisis that toppled the Tsar in WWI. Then, most of their army got encircled in the Caucuses while the rest of the country fell. Finally, the government had been forced to sue for a peace treaty to ensure its own survival. In the peace treaty, which was signed in Moscow as a further humiliation it almost all of its territory, reducing it to a mere rump state in Siberia. To the Russian people, this was viewed as a betrayal. To save its own skin, it had abandoned most of its people to foreign rule and oppression by the Germans in the West and the Japanese in the East. When combined with the utter failure to stop the German advances and defend their country, this was enough to make the Russian people turn their backs on the old Soviet Union and its communist ideology. What had Communism gotten them but defeat, occupation, and humiliation. The Russian people thus embraced their liberation with great fervor and looked forward to being able to shape their own government after the war.