This Date in History: August 10

 

Soviet mortar fire struck and killed SS-Gruppenführer Arthur Mülverstedt on August 10, 1941 near Luga, Russia.  Mülverstedt was the commander of the 4th SS Division “Polizei” (4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division); initially wounded in the chest, he died at the aid station shortly afterward.  (Quiet Flows the Rhine, German General Officer Casualties in World War II)

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Tommie Davison, later of the 427th Quartermaster Truck Company, was born on August 10, 1914 in West Point, Mississippi.  Convicted of rape, he was hanged by Master Sergeant John C. Woods on March 29, 1945 at Prise Guinment, Manche, France.  (The Fifth Field: The Story of 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)  and (American Hangman, MSgt. John C. Woods: The United States Army’s Notorious Executioner in World War II and Nürnberg)