Word: pawlaczyk
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...looting and leveling hamlets and murdering American war prisoners. On the American side, G.I.s generally resist the temptation to retaliate, but a minority now and then will cut off a few fingers or ears from the enemy dead as trophies. Such was the case with Specialist Fourth Class George Pawlaczyk, 22, a reporter and photographer for the 1st Infantry Division newspaper, and Specialist Fifth Class Franklin Passantino, 21, a muscular combat medic who has won both a Bronze and Silver Star and been recommended for another Bronze Star. Pawlaczyk and Passantino were with the 1st Battalion's 18th Regiment...
Special Note. In their final decision, the six-man court-martial found Pawlaczyk guilty of violating the "laws of war," as laid down by the Geneva Convention, and of discrediting the armed forces. He was thereupon demoted to private and ordered to forfeit two-thirds of his net pay for two months. In Passantino's case, the court took special note of his heroic war record and-though finding him guilty, like Pawlaczyk, of discrediting the armed forces -lifted the specific charge of committing a war crime. He was then demoted to specialist fourth class and fined two-thirds...
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