Re: Turncoats

[Mike Davino <mdavino@yahoo.com>]

At least one of them is still living in China.  He
recently declined to talk about the Korean War in a
press interview.  Most returned to the US after the
war.  Unfortunately, they had been dishonorably
discharged from the Army in absentia and they
therefore could not be court martialed because they
were no longer in the Army.

The dishonorable discharges (DD) caused some problems,
because that discharge under normal circumstances can
only result from a general court martial.  I believe
it was the Secretary of the Army that just ordered
that they get a DD, something that was legally
questionable at best because a DD is considered a
"punitive" discharge (as opposed to say a general
discharge which is administrative in nature).


--- RonaldS842@aol.com wrote:
> 
>    Interesting bit of trivia.
>    The discussion brings to mind the infamous
> "Turncoats", an interesting 
> part of the history of the Korean War.
>    What happened to these guys? Are any of them
> still alive and living in 
> North Korea?
> 
> Ronald D. Schultz
> Moraga, CA
> 
> P.S. I still have a lingering suspicion, and I know
> it is "far out", that 
> there was a conspiracy involved in the start if the
> war and that it involved 
> much more than just the Korean Peninsula, really
> between the USA and USSR. I 
> base this on the work I was doing in the USAFSS
> although my involvement was 
> not on a high level. (Whose was when you got below
> the level of MacArthur?:-) 
> History is strange, remembering is even stranger.
>    Ed, there was a book written about this alleged
> conspiracy that was given 
> some serious consideration several years ago. Do
> you, or someone else, 
> remember the book and author? I would like to reread
> it and maybe a rebuttal.
> 
> 
> P.P.S. My very young nephew just earned his first
> star in the USAF. My God! 
> where does the time go?


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