AMERICANS TORTURED.
(Rec. 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 13. There is indisputable evidence that the Germans tortured and murdered American paratroops in the early Normandy landings, says the National Broadcasting Corporation’s reporter. Stanley Richardson, who has just returned to London from the headquarters of the American air-borne troops near Carentan. He said that the bodies of three Americans, stripped to the waist and with their hands bound, were found near a former German command post. A lieutenant, with his throat cut, was hanging helpless from a tree in which his parachute had landed. A major found dead in a village had been stabbed many times.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 June 1944, Page 5
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