Re: Cover ups

["Patricia Winston (Trish)" <winstonp001@hawaii.rr.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: Cover ups


> At 10:51 PM 8/9/01 EDT, RonaldS842@aol.com wrote:
> >   Seriously, remember Paul Fissell's book, "Making of a Skeptic"? He was
a
> >platoon leader at the end of WWII. His boys surrounded a bomb crater with
> >15-20 unarmed German boys crying and pleading for help. His boys
> methodically
> >shot them all point blank as they tried to crawl out. All the time
hooping
> >and halloring Texas style. They called it the great turkey shoot.
> >   Is that your clear logic? If that is what you condone you wouldn't
serve
> >with me.
>
> Were these fellows in the German military?  If so, then, yes, they were
> legal targets until such time as they actually surrendered.
>
> The system I have set out is the state of the law under the United States'
> UCMJ.  I served for quite a few years under the UCMJ and was quite content
> to do so.  What military service did you serve in, Ron?  I suspect they
had
> a parallel provision.
>
> Marc
>
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>

Again, let me quote:

                Shipwrecked members of the armed forces at sea are to be
respected and protected.[ (Geneva Convention, for the Amelioration of the
Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, August 12,
1949, 6 U.S.T. 3114, T.I.A.S. 3362, 75 U.N.T.S., art. 12,  also appearing in
Dep't of the Navy, Naval Warfare Publication 1-14M/U.S. Marine Corps MCPW
5-2.1, The Commander's Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations  (October
1995) NWP
1-14M, para. 11.6)].  Shipwrecked includes downed passengers/crews on
aircraft, ships in peril, castaways.

            Parachutists (FM 27-10, supra, para. 30).  Descending
paratroopers are presumed to be on a military mission and
therefore may be targeted.  Parachutists are crewmen of a disabled aircraft.
They are presumed to be out of combat and
may not be targeted unless it is apparent they are engaged on a hostile
mission.  Parachutists, according to GP I, Article
42, "shall be given the opportunity to surrender before being made the
object of attack."

Drowning seamen would be considered naufrage (shipwrecked) and hors de
combat.

Trish