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Ronald Charles Speirs (20 April 1920 – 11 April 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially assigned as a platoon leader in B Company of the 1st Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment.
Reinforcements from Company D, led by 2nd Lt. Ronald C. Speirs, arrived to complete the assault on the fourth and last gun. Speirs had a reputation as an excellent and extremely aggressive officer, and he led his men against the last gun position by running outside the trenches, exposing himself to enemy fire.
Rumors begin to circulate that Lieutenant Ronald Speirs killed a group of German prisoners. Private Albert Blithe, who has been struggling with shell shock, is finally spurred into action by Winters during the Battle of Bloody Gulch. Several days later, Blithe is shot through the neck by a sniper while on patrol.
Soldiers like Speirs take over to handle the shooting jobs, only to be edged out by the paper pushers when the guns fall silent. Speirs got edged out, and after a lifelong Army career retired at only one rank higher than his friend Dick Winters, who served only during the War. Mnpd 08:35, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936 Marion County Jail, Indiana: The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping ...
A manhunt in Idaho for a prisoner serving a 20-year sentence for shooting at a sheriff during a high-speed car chase, concluded on Thursday after he was recaptured along with his alleged accomplice.
Ronald Connor, a guard charged in the beating death of a mentally ill inmate at Dade Correctional Institution, was found guilty only of a misdemeanor charge. ... The prison is also where Darren ...
[8] However, according to George Henry Bennett, "The caveat is a little disingenuous", and he notes that it is likely orders given by the U.S. 328th Infantry Regiment to shoot prisoners were carried out, and that other US regiments were likely given similar orders. [9] The killing of SS prisoners had become routine at the time for some units.