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A platoon of the Wiltshires had just begun to attack a small barracks area, and were being fired on by a...
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The two other Brens had started firing and I shouted to the others to shout out the range, they shouted...
The Regt. really got stuck in removing bushes and all kinds of debris and preparing paths to our Nissan...
These early hours with the army and its life stile pointed to an early return to Civilian Street, cold,...
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Back in the dunes about 40/50 yards from where we had been before, we settled down again and hoped that we...
Suddenly my buddy, Corporal Stan Lunt and I, on stolen time, decided to investigate a rumour of a German SP...
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