Word: sasebo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Regarding the "Incident at Sasebo" letters [Dec. 16]: The Moms of America realize all their sonnies aren't darlings, but after months of uncomfortable pregnancies, hours of agonizing births, years of self-sacrificing and rearing, they are reluctant to turn over their offspring for lessons in proper human behavior to sadistic bullies who criticize parental upbringing in an attempt to justify their own unlawful and undignified antics. I'm no softie; the rod is well worn around our house...
Incident at Sasebo...
Incident at Sasebo...
Admiral Roscoe F. Good, in charge of Navy forces in Japan, had another view of discipline. After reading the report on conditions at the Sasebo brig, he ordered general courts-martial for Barbuti and a second brig warden, special courts-martial for the other 14 guards...
There were three things about 18-year-old Seaman Wesley Daggett that interested the doctors at the U.S. Navy Base Hospital at Sasebo, Japan. First, he was covered with ugly bruises on his abdomen, chest and buttocks. Secondly, he had just been discharged from the Sasebo base brig, and third, he refused to tell what had happened to him. Since the same symptoms had turned up on another case the previous week, the doctors kept after Daggett until he began to talk. What they heard sent the Navy and Marine Corps charging to the brig to investigate...