Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain
Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. A small number of the soldiers abused the…
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Fighting for the United States, Executed in Britain
This book relates a chapter of American military history which many people would rather forget. A small number of the soldiers abused the hospitality they received by committing murders and rapes against British civilians. When the United States came to the aid of Britain in 1942, the arrival of American troops was greeted with unreserved enthusiasm, but unfortunately, wartime sometimes brings out the worst, as well as the best, in people.
Although rape had not been a capital crime in Britain for over a century, it still carried the death penalty Some of these men were hanged or shot at Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset, which had been handed over for the use of the American armed forces.Due to a treaty between Britain and America, those accused of such offences faced an American court martial, rather than a British civilian court, which gave rise to some curious anomalies.
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