Courts-martial records online

[Michael Dorosh]

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network is putting up a ton of digitized records onto their website at

http://heritage.canadiana.ca/search/browsable?identifier=Military

A lot of it predates the Second World War, but there is some interesting reading in the scanned microfilm rolls of Second World War courts-martial cases:

http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_140678

Sad reading most of it, as the defendants played up their disadvantages while forming a defence for such things as desertion, absent without leave, and self-inflicted wounds.

A not atypical charge sheet:

 

[R Hooks]

FU was my favorite two words when I came back from Vietnam, but I never said it to an officer.. well maybe once on the telephone.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

FU was my favorite two words when I came back from Vietnam, but I never said it to an officer.. well maybe once on the telephone.

What about "disco"?

 

[Eagle4ty]

FU was my favorite two words when I came back from Vietnam, but I never said it to an officer.. well maybe once on the telephone.

FTA was a similar refrain back in the 60's early 70's though one could always say it stood for the then current Army slogan Fun, Travel and Adventure!

BTW, if you ever read the U.S. Army's Black Book on the Korean War "South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu", The footnotes are replete with notations such as U.S. Army vs Sergeant/Lieutenant so and so. One can always reference these through the U.S. Army's CMH or the National Archives.

• [Not my cup of tea to actually follow up on as these people were usually in extreme circumstances and often there were no real good answers/actions to be taken]

 

[R Hooks]

One thing I learned was to never say "bug out" to a Korean Vet. huge insult.