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"ArtKramr" wrote in message
... Not all the details but that they were going to execute a guy because Ike had had enough of desertions and wanted to set an example. That's all we knew. But that alone triggered fairness questions and issues of justice. It's unfortunate that U.S. authorities did not look to what happened in the Commonwealth forces in the previous Big Mistake. Canada executed something like 24 men over four years, and in retrospect it looks to have been a travesty of justice. Australia refused to adopt the executions policy that the B.E.F. had convinced Canada to apply, and they had no more problem with desertion than anyone else, likely less. Anyone recall the details involved in the black marketeers in Italy who murdered a sergeant (a Provost, I think)? The U.S. members of the conspiracy got life, and a Canadian was executed, IIRC. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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