Friedrich Bonte
Friedrich Bonte, Navy Commodore, born October 19, 1896 in Potsdam, Commander of Destroyers, posthumous winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, killed in action aboard the destroyer Wilhelm Heidkamp in the Battle of Narvik on April 10, 1940. (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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Grave of Charles Ervin Jr.
On Friday, October 19, 1945, a U.S. Army firing squad executed U.S. Army Privates Mansfield Spinks and Charles Ervin Jr. at the Peninsular Base Section Stockade Number 1 in Aversa, Italy for the crimes of rape and murder. They are buried at the American Military Cemetery at Oise-Aisne. (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)