In mid-Summer 1942, seven U.S. Army generals found all eight men guilty but left their punishment up to the president. FDR sentenced six to death, and two, including John Dasch, to lengthy prison terms, though both were deported after the war.
The electrocutions began at 12:01 p.m. on August 8. By 104, all six were dead.
Three days later, they were secretly buried amid a seldom-visited thicket of Southwest Washington known as Blue Plains.
Jim Rostenstock back searched this information, but the question remain, "Who placed the granite memorial stone there?"
The line at the bottom spelling out "N.S.W.P.P." offered a clue.
GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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