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  Col. John S. Dwinell, 69, Dies; Military Lawyer for 40 Years
  Col. John S. Dwinell U.S.A., retired, a lawyer with the judge Advocate Genera's Corps and member of the military court that convicted Ilse Koch of murder at the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, died Sunday at the Veterans Administration Hospital on First Avenue, He was 69 years old and lived in Brooklyn.
  Colonel Dwinell, a 40‐year career man in the Army was also involved in the defense of Kathleen Nash Durant the Wac captain sentenced to five years' imprisonment in 1946 for taking part in the theft of the $1‐miflion Hesse crown jewels from Kronberg Castle.
  In another case, the Colonel defended 73 troopers of the First SS Panzer Division convicted of machine gunning more than 80 United States prisoners Of war in a field near Malmedy, Belgium, in 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge.
  Colonel Dwinell began his Army, career in 1920 with the Coast Artillery of the New York National Guard. Before his call to active duty in 1940, he graduated from St. Francis College in Brooklyn and Brooklyn Law School.
  Shortly before retiring, Colonel Dwinell was chief judge of the Military Court of Appeals in Washington.
  A version of this archives appears in print on November 9, 1971, on Page 50 of the New York edition with the headline: Col. John S. Dwinell, 69, Dies; Military Lawyer for 40 Years. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe