... 1944, Captain William G. Wood supervised the execution in the company of ten commissioned officers, who were present ... Eliga Brinson (black) Age: 25 Service No.: 34052175 Private Willie Smith (black) Age: 22 Service No.: 34565556 ...
... Brinson and Smith was stained with mud on the knees of their trousers and also semen and bloodstains were identified. Both Eliga Brinson and Willie Smith gave alibis for the evening of 4 March, when the rape had taken place. According ...
... rape . Their victim was a 30 - year- old Barry ( Glamorgan ) married woman , the rape taking place in a field near ... 1944 : ' I work in a Factory , and many of my workmates and myself beg you to reprieve these two men . Many ...
... Brinson, Eliga; Smith, Willie—August 11, 1944 Twenty-two-year-old Eliga Brinson was inducted into the Army at Camp ... raped her; “and after he did what he wanted to, the other did exactly the same.” When they finished, they arose ...
... Elija Brinson and Willie Smith, dragged Dorothy into a field and raped her. Footprints left in the recently fallen snow sealed the soldiers' fates and they were hanged at Shepton Mallet on 11 August, by which time most of their buddies ...
... 1944 , the General Court - Martial was opened . The men were charged with ... ELIGA BRINSON and PRIVATE WILLIE SMITH Both the above coloured soldiers were ... rape . The General Court - Martial was held in Cheltenham on 28th ...
... rape for almost a hundred years . On the evening of 4 March , Dorothy Holmes had left a Gloucestershire dance hall with her American soldier boyfriend . Eliga Brinson ... 1944. He was a regular soldier in the German army , not a Nazi like ...
This text focuses on the historical issues of Christian rescue of Jews, resistance to Nazi oppression, and the plight of the refugee in light of current problems facing us.
"The Fifth Field reveals one of the final secrets of the war: how 96 American soldiers in Europe and North Africa were tried by American General Courts-Martial, convicted by military juries, sentenced to death, executed and buried in an ...