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...trial before a U.S. court-martial in London was Sergeant Judson H. Smith-one of twelve men charged with cruelty to G.I. prisoners in the guardhouse of the loth Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield. But last week, as the story of repeated brutalities (TIME, Dec. 31) continued to unfold, lowly Sergeant Smith became almost the forgotten man at his own trial. The accusing finger pointed higher & higher up the chain of command...
...spite of its similarities, this was no Nazi concentration camp, but the prison stockade of the U.S. Army's 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield, in England's Midlands. The victims of these brutalities were U.S. soldiers-most of them AWOL (often by the technicality of having overstayed a pass by a few hours); only a small proportion of them were guilty of more serious crimes...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino), after a nine-day ride in a sealed, packed boxcar, is lined up with other Russian civilians in a German railway depot. German civilians stroll along the line, lifting a Russian chin now & again with an umbrella handle, for closer scrutiny. The Germans are shopping for slaves. Girl 217 (Elena Kuzmina) goes to a pudgy, henbrained grocer's wife and shares a room with another Russian slave, who is trying, in his scant spare time, to keep up his scientific work...
Under a Pall. Hiroshima had once harbored 344.000 people, thousands more in the adjacent quartermaster depot...
...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...