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TIL only one US Soldier has been executed between the US Civil War and present day for the crime of desertion - Eddie Slovik, during WWII. Although 21,000 soldiers were tried for desertion during WWII, and 49 handed death sentences, only Slovik actually faced the firing squad.

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