Eddie Slovik

Edward Donald "Eddie" Slovik (February 18, 1920 – January 31, 1945) was a United States Army soldier during World War II and the only American soldier to be court-martialled and executed for desertion since the American Civil War.^[2]

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie Slovik
• Page 526 - Atkinson, R. 2013, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944 - 1945: Henry Holt and Company, New York, 877p.