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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
It's not just the second world war. I have it on good authority (talking to my uncle who served with the paras) that British troops in the Falklands took ears during some of the bloodier and most stressful engagements. Not every ear came from a dead argentine.
But we won the falklands and the bodies where conveniantly policed and buried so noody had to be held to account. I'm sure things would of been different had we lost.
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That isn't exactly 100% true.
Corporal McLoughlin was implicated in taking some ears. But he was the only one as determined by two internal and external investigations. All of the ears came from dead Argentinians as well, and there were only a few (not that quantity really matters though).
The bodies were buried yes, but exhumed as part of the investigation by the British police and forensics specialists. The incident cost McLoughlin the VC (posthumously), which incidentally would never have been investigated had the other Para's not reported it. So he was held accountable.