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Died. 2nd Lieut. Beaufort George Swancutt, 31, handsome lady-killer of La Crosse, Wis., under death sentence by an Army court-martial for running amuck in Camp Anza (Calif.) Officers' Club and killing his fiancée and three others (TIME, March 20); by his own hand (hanged with a bed sheet); in San Francisco...
...Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
...Beaufort Swancutt, an infantry officer with a disordered, unstable record that had somehow escaped the notice of the Army, had committed one of the most inexplicable crimes in the service's modern history. At Camp Anza he had killed two 19-year-old girls, his captain and a policeman in a wild shooting rampage that had begun while he was sitting at a table drinking beer...
...lady-killer-tall, dark-haired, handsome in his army officer's uniform. Beaufort George Swancutt was his romantic name. Last week he reached the climax of a disordered career, whose early details the Army had somehow missed or ignored...
...George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...