WILL NOT BE SHOT
Women Snipers Captured In Normandy WAR OFFICE DECISION Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON. June 15. Women snipers captured in Normandy will be treated as prisoners of war and not as francs-tireurs, liable under military law to be summarily executed. A War Office official, quoted by the Daily Mail, said that theoretically, because they did not wear uniform or distinctive markings, these snipers could be shot, but this would not be done. In Yugoslavia women are fighting with Marshal Tito's Partisans and others are fighting in the Russian Army, but they all wear uniform or distinctive markings. The Daily Mail says women captured in Normandy are auxiliaries, trained in the use of small arms.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 141, 16 June 1944, Page 5
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