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...TIME [May 27] . . . states that "25,000 almost-new passenger cars were rusting and rotting in an Atlanta depot," and that the Army had "reluctantly" given up 7,000 of them under pressure of publicity...
...Atlanta Ordnance Depot is one of several depots that receive vehicles for repairs. They are stored in open fields since there is not enough undercover storage to meet the requirements. About 31,000 vehicles of all types are stored there at present, including trucks, passenger cars and motorcycles. At the present time there are 525 passenger cars there, of which 48 are in serviceable condition. The balance of 477 cars are unserviceable and require varying amounts of repair work...
...from his wounds in an Army hospital anywhere in England in the six months following D-Day knew the words Lichfield and Kilian as well as he knew the location of the nearest pub. Through the far-reaching military grapevine came unbelievable tales about the guardhouse at the Tenth Depot and of the colonel in command. Former pass from the Lichfield base would continually warn their buddies: "Keep your nose clean when you get there." They beat prisoners there, they told you, and some guys died from the beatings. To those who wondered why nothing had been done about...
Once its medical officers decided a man was fit for further combat duty, every hospital on the island would process its rehabilitated charges through the Tenth Depot, a reconverted British post in the Midlands, on their way back to the Continent. Until March, 1945, there were no furloughs offered between hospital and depot-once you arrived at Lichfield, there was a possibility of a 48-hour pass. If you weren't lucky, you crossed the Channel without a pass...
...cannot conceivably strengthen the Army's case. What the courts-martial board decides, in the case of Colonel Kilian, now on trial, is yet to be seen. But those who saw some hope for democratization of the army with the apprehension of the top-ranking officers of the Tenth Depot have since realized their sadness, in observing the inequalities of the punishment meted out thus far, that the military caste system is merely adding cruel insult to a long list of injuries...