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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 02:06 PM Apr 2015

Burial Plot E - The Dishonorable Dead

Interesting and grim in its finality :

"In total, the US Army executed 98 servicemen following General Courts Martial (GCM) for murder or rape, or both crimes, in the European Theatre of Operations during the Second World War. The remains of these servicemen were originally buried near the site of their executions, which took place in countries as far apart as England, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Algeria. In 1949 the remains of these men were re-interred in Plot E, a private section specifically built to hold what the Graves Registration referred to as "the dishonorable dead", since (per standard practice) all had been Dishonorably Discharged from the US Army just prior to their executions"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oise-Aisne_American_Cemetery_Plot_E

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Burial Plot E - The Dishonorable Dead (Original Post) packman Apr 2015 OP
I don't know much about UCMJ, and this was during wartime, but... Brother Buzz Apr 2015 #1

Brother Buzz

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1. I don't know much about UCMJ, and this was during wartime, but...
Thu Apr 23, 2015, 02:47 PM
Apr 2015

I would have thought the military would loose their authority to execute a soldier the moment he was dishonorable discharged.

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