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What did Miles Dempsey study?
A career infantryman, Miles Dempsey was an ardent student of military history and during the interwar period had frequently visited Europe to study its battlefields firsthand.
Did Miles Dempsey have to lead his command into battle
Within Miles Dempsey's command were 123,000 British and Dutch prisoners and nearly 750,000 captured Japanese.

Question: Did they release the prisoners since the war was over?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Miles Dempsey release the Dutch prisoners and nearly 750,000 captured Japanese since the war was over?