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...veterans who read their newspapers carefully these days will note that the trials of Colonel James Kilian and other officials of the Tenth Replacement Depot at Lichfield, England, are still in progress, and it is dubious whether enlisted men familiar with the situation in 1944 have been comforted greatly by the courts-martial results thus...
...recovering 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...
Colonel James A. Kilian, former commandant of Lichfield's ill-famed loth Reinforcement Depot, squared his shoulders last week at the court-martial of one of his prison guards, glared at the assistant prosecutor, and rasped...
...Smith was only a symbol: the prosecution was after the system and the man it held responsible for the system-Kilian. A contempt of court charge against Kilian (TIME, Feb. 18) was already prepared. Others were reported to be in the making, one involving conspiracy. The imperious colonel had the hot potato, and had need of a miracle...
Meanwhile, in Washington, the War Department sent up, and the Senate confirmed, a list of 349 officers for promotion (based on seniority) to the permanent rank of colonel. Among the names: James Alphonse Kilian. Then the Washington Post drew attention to the goings-on at the Lichfield trial. Embarrassed, Utah's Elbert Thomas got the Senate to call the list back. If the Army was embarrassed, it showed no sign...