Re the firing squad thing, I guess the Allied decision-makers simply did not believe the defendants merited any form of execution that would have implied the condemned were honorable soldiers simply doing their duty.
Bormann will be hanged. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was authorized to impose death sentences by hanging (the traditional American-British method of execution), or by beheading (the historical German mode of execution) only. Convicted defendants could appeal for clemency to...
Well, if you want to command an American aircraft carrier, you will ordinarily have to have successfully commanded another ship first-usually a tanker or other support vessel. I believe this practice was first introduced during the later part of the Second World. It would be unusual to assign a...
Yup. A successful tour of duty as a wartime squadron CO (burnished by that MOH) would likely be followed in OTL by a stateside assignment selling war bonds, at least a brief period as an instructor and then tried out as an XO of a CAG. Assuming success at that, promotion to commander is...
I am inclined to opine otherwise. The American hangman assigned to work in Japan, First Lieutenant Charles Rexroad, was quite competent (unlike the bungling John C. Woods of Nuremberg infamy). Rexroad had trained to act as a hangman while serving in San Quentin as a guard before the war, then...
Doesn't work like that. Her father was heir presumptive to Edward. When he dies, his children are next in line. Didn't have sons, so the oldest daughter becomes heir presumptive. Before any surviving brother gets the nod, all of the Duke of York's issue needs to die first.
Unlikely. OTL, he categorically refused to evacuate the Philippines by submarine. MacArthur would probably try to escape from Corregidor in a rowboat before voluntarily setting foot in a British submarine.
There was co-operation between NKVD and the SOE. I believe there was an SOE mission in Moscow at one point. OSS-NKVD co--operation was vetoed by J. Edgar Hoover who thought the idea supremely stupid ( rightly so, in my opinion). There were no Allied liaison officers stationed or embedded with...
Sherman was only acting secretary of war for 29 days in 1869, serving as a placeholder until Grant nominated a full time replacement. Sherman was not interested in being Secretary of War on a permanent basis as this would have required him to resign his commission as a general.
Yes, in 1938 while he was Commander Aircraft Battle Force. If my Swiss cheese memory has not betrayed me, I think he participated in an earlier similar exercise (1932?) while commanding USS Lexington. I am not certain of his precise role in the earlier fleet problem, however.
He was popular with the voters in Missouri, certainly, but not neccesarily with his fellow senators or the national press. At least, that is my impression. Your mileage may vary.
Jimmy Carter is a war veteran. He qualified for the Victory Medal since he was in service prior to December 31, 1946-and his service career started on the day he entered the United States Naval Academy in 1943. He was, not of course, a combat veteran.