Legal Opinion
Bell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 22, 1961No. 92PublishedCited by 220 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stewart
The petitioners were enlisted men in the United States Army who were captured during the hostilities in Korea in 1950 and 1951. In the prison camps to which they were taken they behaved with utter disloyalty to their comrades and to their country. After the Korean Armistice in the summer of 1953 they refused repatriation and went to Communist China. They were formally discharged from the Army in 1954. In 1955 they returned to the United States. Later that year they filed claims with the Department of the Army for accrued pay and allowances. When these claims were denied they brought the…
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