Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memories of G.I.s the institution (100 miles southwest of Paris) was the "Continental Stockade." Whether they had suffered its rigors while confined for offenses against military law, or whether they had merely observed them from the outside, the men agreed that it had been tough-like Lichfield, England (TIME, Dec. 31, Jan. 14). There was no question that the Army's policy had been to make detention so uncomfortable that the prisoners would prefer combat duty; the question now was whether the Continental Stockade had been so tough as to defeat the Army's purpose...
...Didn't he suggest that the conditions at Lichfield were well known to higher headquarters. . . ?" LoBuono: "Something like that...
...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...
...prosecutor seized this opening: "Didn't Kilian suggest that the Lichfield policy was dictated by higher authorities?" LoBuono...
...whole trial was a fact which everyone recognized. During the invasion of Europe, General "Ike" Eisenhower's combat divisions had been hampered by the shortage of replacements. Goldbricking was a threat to victory. Some of the G.I.s who landed in Lichfield as prisoners were suspected of trying to dodge combat. There was some reason for the Army to make Lichfield so tough that goldbrickers would prefer the front lines. Did that justify the kind of brutality that prosecution witnesses described...