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...Private Wilhelm Kappe had killed a Russian prisoner of war. According to Der Stern, the two escaped while working outside the jail walls, and were given a ride by a passing motorist who gladly picked them up though he could not help but recognize their war-criminal insignia...
...later, at 2 a.m., 500 heavily armed British police and troops descended upon the Hong Kong airfield. They seized the disputed planes, rounded up 150 sleepy Communist guards who sullenly chanted Red songs as they were hauled away in trucks. Two days later, 40 of the planes bearing the insignia CATC (for the former Central Air Transport Corp.) were turned over to C.A.T. The remaining 31, involved in similar litigation, will unquestionably be awarded to C.A.T...
This reserve fund will go towards payment for the insignia changes which
...Skietcommando. Erasmus concentrated mostly on his own private Nationalist army, called the Skietcommando and modeled after Hitler's SA and SS troops. He ordered the "Her Majesty" insignia stripped from the caps of all South African naval men, required all military textbooks to be translated into Afrikaans. Propelled, like all the Nationalists, by a fanatic mixture of hatred and fear of South Africa's browns and blacks, Erasmus even disbanded the effective native and half-caste units with which Smuts had built up the South African army...
...honor at Haiphong seemed slovenly, De Lattre tongue-lashed the general and colonel in charge, a terrifying treatment known in French slang as the "shampoo." He ordered 25 days' confinement for the pilot of his plane, because the pilot had neglected to put the new commander's insignia on the fuselage. To a bearded copilot, De Lattre snapped: "And you've got five minutes to shave yourself clean!" Later, to an aide, the martinet confided: "I have terrible obligations. I have to abuse those I like the best. These air force men are genuine heroes, but they...