The American military graveyard in France that the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see
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Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial’s Plot E is the final resting place for nearly 100 American servicemen who were executed during or just after World War II. Almost every single person buried there was convicted of murder or rape, the victims being fellow American service members as well as civilians from France, the United Kingdom and other countries. They were convicted in a court martial and sentenced to death, killed by either hanging or firing squad.
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If Plot E is known to the wider public, since it is not officially acknowledged, it’s for at one point housing the remains of Pvt. Eddie Slovik. Slovik was the one American in World War II to be tried, convicted and executed for desertion, the first such case since the American Civil War. Many other soldiers deserted, but were dishonorably discharged, which Slovik himself expected as punishment. He had even pleaded for clemency from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, but the general confirmed the execution as a way to prevent further desertions from the army. Slovik was buried in Plot E, where his body stayed until 1987, where after years of advocacy his remains were sent home to the United States, where he was reburied.
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