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...tags. German tanks and trucks were marked with American stars. The deception was highly successful and forced U.S. Military Police to make time-consuming checks of all vehicles using the roads in northern France and Belgium. American slang and American lore became the one sure test to pass an MP...
...camp in England be cause of improper uniform, ten Negro G.I.s who had been having a few beers at a hotel in Kingsclere, Hampshire, sullenly obeyed, shortly returned with carbines "to deal with the MPs." In the rattle of gunfire that followed, the hotel proprietor's wife, an MP and another soldier were killed. Last week an Army court-martial found nine of the Negroes guilty of murder, sentenced them to hard labor for life. The tenth got ten years at hard labor for being A.W.O.L. Said one of the accused: "We have had no dealings with...
Then one night several weeks ago a jeep crashed to a halt on a street in Rome. Police pulled a Canadian soldier out of the car. He was a deserter, armed with a pistol stolen from an American MP. Police stood guard over the jeep. When another Canadian and a U.S. sergeant showed up and tried to recover the jeep at gunpoint, the guards nabbed them. That was a break which U.S. Lieut. Colonel John R. Pollock, Allied regional director of public safety, had been hoping...
Free Parking. Throughout Sept. 3, 4 and 5, German columns following behind the original columns and unaware of the trap that had been sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...stubborn," grinned the lieutenant. He turned to the MP escort in the jeep behind him. Said he: "If this guy makes a break, just plug him." The jeeps whisked off to the rear. Major General Richter stared straight ahead...