[Kiwiwriter]

Originally posted by paulyb102@Jan 11 2005, 07:58 PM
Hi paul j

When i saw those names at the bottom of your list, i presumed wrongly that they were (murdered) by a doodlebug or V-2, it,s rare you hear of any types of deaths from ww2 in other instances such as these, well done for highlighting their memory.
I suppose many hundreds like them in the u.k. also perished

Paul

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They're not alone. The magazine "After the Battle" has articles on justice in WW2, which include cases where American or British troops raped and/or murdered British or French women, and drew the death penalty for the crime. While Eddie Slovik was the only American shot for desertion in WW2, a number of GIs were hanged in Europe for the relatively ordinary crimes of murder and rape. They are buried in Plot E at Oise-Aisne Cemetery in France, which is a secret and inaccessible plot behind the superintendent's quarters. So while the public can visit the immaculate white graves of Joyce Kilmer and his buddies from the Second Battle of the Marne in WW1 in Plots A through D, you need permission from the American Battle Monuments Commission to visit Plot E, where the dead lie under flat black tombstones...with no flag flying. Those are the wages of murder and rape.