The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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Side 167
... Japanese ones . The Japanese had won the first round in Burma . Their methods of silent infiltration through the jungle , the ability of the Japanese soldier to fight for days on a few handfuls of rice and his suicidal tenacity in ...
... Japanese ones . The Japanese had won the first round in Burma . Their methods of silent infiltration through the jungle , the ability of the Japanese soldier to fight for days on a few handfuls of rice and his suicidal tenacity in ...
Side 174
... JAPANESE OFFENSIVE demolish it in a series of excited broadcasts . Actually , the division went into hedgehog defence , was magnificently supplied by air , and finally rescued by the 26th Indian and 36th British Divisions with a ...
... JAPANESE OFFENSIVE demolish it in a series of excited broadcasts . Actually , the division went into hedgehog defence , was magnificently supplied by air , and finally rescued by the 26th Indian and 36th British Divisions with a ...
Side 265
... Japanese garrison . But the advance here had halted . Instead of this Chinese sector constituting a threat to the enemy command , the Japanese had been able to lighten their commitment there considerably so that now they had eight ...
... Japanese garrison . But the advance here had halted . Instead of this Chinese sector constituting a threat to the enemy command , the Japanese had been able to lighten their commitment there considerably so that now they had eight ...
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12th Devons 1st Battalion 2nd Battalion 2nd Devons action advance Agira Airborne ammunition anti-tank guns Armoured army arrived artillery assault attack Barracks battery battle bayonet beach Blerick bombs bridge bridgehead Brigade British Bulford Burma camp Captain capture casualties Chagford Chindwin Colonel column command Company Corps Crete D-Day defence Devons Devonshire Regiment Division Dorsets east enemy fighting fire flank force forward fought French front garrison German Gibraltar glider grenades Hamminkeln hill Horsa Houyet Imphal infantry invasion island Japanese Japs jungle killed L/Cpl landing Lieut Lieutenant Lt-Col Lt-Colonel machine-gun Major Malta Mandalay March miles Monywa morning mortar move night Normandy officers operation Operation Blackcock party patrol platoon position Private Rhine ridge rifle river road rôle round route Sergeant shells Sicily soldiers Tamu Tamu road tanks town tracks Tree Hill troops Ukhrul village wounded yards