Editor’s note: This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service, under the headline “POW Witness: He was forced to ...
Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil War. He wrote and signed a confession admitting his crime. He refused five ...
Army Brig. Gen. Guy Fort, 1st Sgt. John Chandler, Capt. Albert Price, and Lt. Col. Robert Vesey (left to right) were POWs executed by the Japanese in the Philippines ...