Word: prisonment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though thousands around him died during the Death March, in a stinking prison ship, in a Manchurian prison camp. Last week he took the witness chair in the big Manila ballroom where cool, suave Japanese General Masaharu Homma is on trial for his life. Talking quietly and precisely, as befitted his 28 years of service, Jimmy Baldassare became the first witness to link Homma to the infamous Death March...
Traitor William ("Lord Haw-Haw") Joyce, 39, played chess with a warder till midnight, then went to bed in his Wandsworth cell. Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 37, made things snug for his first solo job since taking over from his Uncle Thomas, then went to bed in the prison library. At 6 Joyce rose and washed, but did not bother to shave. At the gallows Pierrepoint was waiting. Round the neck of the frozen-faced traitor, he expertly draped the noose. Then he sprang the trap...
Married. Elisabeth de Gaulle, 21, pretty, trained-nurse daughter of French President Charles de Gaulle; and Commandant (Major) Alain de Boissieu, 31; in Paris. Son-in-law De Boissieu, le grand Charlie's military aide, escaped from a German prison camp in 1940, campaigned in Africa and Normandy...
Glutton for Punishment. In Shawnee, Kans., Army Corporal John G. Lally, survivor of the Bataan Death March, a Jap prison (three years, five months), malaria and temporary blindness, re-enlisted...
Outside Wandsworth Prison the young woman and his brother sat waiting in a car. At 9:08 a.m. a warder pinned a notice on the wall: "Judgment of death was this day executed on John Amery...