{"id":77135,"date":"2018-01-13T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77135"},"modified":"2018-01-13T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T13:06:01","slug":"antonin-dehays-french-historian-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77135","title":{"rendered":"Antonin DeHays, French historian pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WTOP<\/a> reports that Antonin DeHays, the French historian who looted the National Archives, pleaded guilty in US District Court last week;<\/p>\n

From December 2012 through about June 2017, DeHays, a French historian with a particular interest in World War II, stole 291 U.S. service members\u2019 dog tags and at least 134 other records from the National Archives location in College Park, Maryland, according to the plea agreement.<\/p>\n

While DeHays kept some of the stolen U.S. dog tags and records for himself and gave others as gifts, he sold the majority of the stolen items on eBay and other marketplaces. Before selling the dog tags, he sometimes removed markings that identified them as belonging to the National Archives, according to information from the U.S. attorney\u2019s office in Maryland.<\/p>\n

In one instance from December 2016, court records say DeHays stole two dog tags from the National Archives at College Park \u2014 both of which belonged to a Tuskegee Airman who died when his fighter plane was downed in Germany on Sept. 22, 1944. He gave one of those dog tags to a military aviation museum in exchange for the opportunity to sit inside a Spitfire airplane, a World War II fighter aircraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He stole ID cards, letters, a Bible, even pieces of downed aircraft. He’s looking at ten years in federal prison. A whole new way to steal valor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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