The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II (62 page)

“Auger,”
see
Binoche, François

Babbage, Captain, 72–73, 76, 77, 82, 83, 96

Bain, Elsie Mabel, 49, 51, 52

Bain, James, 49–53

Bain, John Vernon,
see
Scannell, Vernon

Bain, Kenneth, 11, 13, 49–53, 76

Bain, Sylvia, 49, 52, 287–88

Baird, John, 290

Baker, Newton, 4

Ball, Peter, 287–88

Barbie, Klaus, 192–93

Barkley, Cleve C., 127, 198, 257

Barkley, Harold G., 127, 197–200, 257

battle fatigue (shell shock), xix, 19, 68, 204, 205, 210

courts-martial and, 270–71

Dahlquist and, 271

desertion cases and, 272–73

rest centers for, 98, 205–6

Battle of the Bulge, xi, xii, 258, 276

Beleuse, Yvette, xiv–xv

Bernberg, Raymond E., 231, 234

Biledeau, Adrian, 180, 181

Binoche, François (“Auger”), 166, 169–70, 172–75, 178, 179, 181, 183, 185–86, 189, 242, 312

Bird, William A., 169

Black, Hughie, 13, 38–40, 80, 92–94, 96, 98, 99, 101, 112–15, 118

death of, 115–16

black market, xvii, 62–63, 94, 196, 198–200, 207, 226, 278–79, 297, 306

black soldiers, 264

Bone, Hugh Temple, 117

Boring, Edwin Garrigues, xix

Boudreau, Paul, 184

Bouvier, Augustin “Tin Tin,” 164

Boxing News,
289

Brechifosse, France, 222, 231

Brest, France, 145–46, 196–97

British arms and ammunition, theft and sale of, 17

Brode, Jesse, 305

Brooke, General Alan, 20, 21

Brown, Staff Sergeant, 71–72, 74, 79, 82–83

Bruyères, France, 212–13, 222, 227, 312–13

Buhrmaster, Ernest, 95

Burrows, Fraser, 117

Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 308

Capone, Richard S., 298

Carter, Jimmy, 304

Catch-22
(Heller), 76

Charkatz, Isidore, 219, 234

Chicago Daily Tribune,
95

“Chicago” gangs, xviii

Churchill, Winston, 18, 20–22, 29, 33, 36, 285, 307

Operation Dragoon and, 134–35, 136, 138

Civil War, xiv

Clark, General Mark, 65, 66, 102, 122

Clarke, James T., 233, 249

Cohen, Harry, 300–301

Combat Exhaustion Centres, 98

combat fatigue,
see
battle fatigue

Communist Party, 185, 291

Connolly, John F., 284

Cooke, Brigadier General Elliot D., 57–62

Cooper, Gary, 26

Corley, John T., 275–76

Court Martial Manual,
249

Cox, Alfred T., 189, 238, 242, 245

Crespy, René, 160

criminal operations, xvii–xviii

Crozier, S. F., 15–17

Dahan, Gerri, 192, 193

Dahan, Olga, 192–94, 312

Dahan, Ronnie, 192–94, 226, 312

Dahlquist, Major General John Ernest, 122–23, 133, 152, 153, 201, 203–5, 269

courts-martial and, 218–19, 234, 235, 271

Daily Express,
64, 285

Daily Mail,
285

Daily Telegraph,
290

Dalkin, Willie, 289

Darkes, Russell, 209, 220, 311–12

D-Day, 87–90, 98–101, 102, 111–12

Operation Dragoon, 133–39, 201–2

death penalty and execution:

for desertion, 16–19, 151, 203

hanging, 264–68

shooting, 264

de la Mare, Walter, 78

Denham, Victor, 114

deserters, desertion, 287–88, 292–93, 295

in 36th Division, 224–25

accomplices to, 287

amnesty for, 307

Combat Exhaustion Centres and, 98

combat fatigue and, 272–73

convictions for, 203

Cooke’s study of, 57–62

death penalty for, 16–19, 151, 203

in France, 225–26, 277–78, 287, 297

in London, 290–91

memo circulated on, 59–60

suspension of limits on punishments for, 56–57

tracking down, 94–95

in World War I, xiii, xiv, 6–7, 16

Deserters Amnesty Campaign, 293

Desert Island Discs,
309

Dewey, Thomas E., 250

Dickson, James, 135, 137, 140–41, 149, 150, 186, 224–27, 242, 263

Disciplinary Training Centers (DTCs), 253–54

Loire, 251–54, 261–73

Dobrée, Bonamy, 292, 294

Donovan, General William “Wild Bill,” 180

Douglas, Keith, 31–34, 310

“Dead Men,” 34–35

Egypt, 14–18, 20–22, 34, 35, 44

Eisenhower, General Dwight, xi, xv, xvi, 97, 123, 174, 273

Operation Dragoon and, 134, 202

El Alamein, Egypt, 15, 19, 21, 29–34, 53, 96

Eliot, T. S., 78, 308

Elizabeth II, Queen, 307

épuration,
170–71

Execution of Private Slovik, The
(Huie), xiv, xv

“Farewell” (de la Mare), 78

Farrell, Bill, 47, 77, 81

Faulkner, David P., 218, 233, 235, 250

Forbes, Captain, 93, 98, 99, 101

Ford, Walter L., 229–31, 235, 247–48

Fortune,
54

Fortune, Major General Victor Morven, 14

France, xix, 195–96

Alboussière, 170–73, 178, 185

Brest, 145–46, 196–97

Bruyères, 212–13, 222, 227, 312–13

D-Day, 87–90, 98–101, 102, 111–12

deserters in, 225–26, 277–78, 287, 297

épuration
in, 170–71

Grenoble, 188–89

Lyons, 182–83, 184–86, 192–94, 201, 226

Milice in, 171–72, 185, 193

Operation Dragoon, 133–39

Paris,
see
Paris, France

Trévières, 90–91

Valence, 151–55, 156–58, 160–61, 162, 163, 168, 201, 227

Fraser, “Mad Frankie, 94

Frazior, David M., 156, 205, 208, 220–21, 275

Fredericks, Morris, 199–200

Freeman-Attwood, Major General Harold, 97

French Resistance, xvi, 139–40, 150, 153, 159, 160, 164, 165, 169–72, 174–77, 178, 179, 181, 185–86, 193

Weiss in, 169–70, 178, 181, 191, 210, 238, 243, 272, 312

Freud, Lucian, 287

Fussell, Paul, 129

Genovese, Vito, xvii, 63