In a week when USFET Commander General Joseph T. McNarney told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items:
ΒΆ In Bad Nauheim, a Negro soldier, called as a prosecution witness in the Lichfield trials, was shot...
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