Key Information
Reference code
PENNEY 13/14
Title
Memo from Penney to US 6 Corps Headquarters, 2 May 1944, about remedies for desertion
Date(s)
- 1944 May 2 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
3pp
Scope and content
Typescript memorandum from Penney to 6 US Corps, Headquarters, discussing an increase in absenteeism and desertion, and suggesting an increase in education, a penal camp for convicted deserters to be held in, and no early demobilisation for deserters at the end of the war as remedies. 3pp.