The practice of summary executions was well-known enough to have been included in the highly regarded series, 'The Village', where a young lad was depicted as having been caught, taken into a field and shot by two military police - no protests from irate viewers or the powers that be.
If these executions weren't authorised, they must have been carried out by death squads - nice thougt!
Personally, I'm getting a little sickened of reading attacks on War veterans accounts of their experiences in favour of the agenda driven opinions of war apologists and phantom historians a century later.
A shitty way to commemorate those who died, as far as I'm concerned
Jim Carroll