Word: martially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William ("Billy") Lendrum Mitchell, whose ardent advocacy of U.S. air power led to his court-martial for "insubordination" in 1926 and demotion from brigadier general to colonel, was posthumously voted (by the U.S. Senate) the Congressional Medal of Honor, promotion to the rank of major general...
...Army court-martial had sentenced the four, who were stationed at Lovell General Hospital, Fort Devens, Mass., to a year at hard labor and dishonorable discharge (TIME, April 2). No one denied that the four had disobeyed an officer, or that the trial had been fair. But on the basis of their testimony that they and other Negro WACs at Lovell had been victims of racial discrimination, the Negro press, Negro and radical leaders started a furious protest, loudly demanded an investigation...
...Iron discipline and courts-martial are no longer of any avail...
...Army's troubled history of race relations, an army court-martial wrote one more entry. The court found four Negro WACs guilty of refusing to obey a superior's command...
...Virtual martial law for the entire home land...