The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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... enemy . We then fixed bayonets and made an assault on the enemy position , only to find that the enemy had withdrawn . A few hundred yards down the road a burning lorry and one or two bodies indicated that they had run straight into the ...
... enemy . We then fixed bayonets and made an assault on the enemy position , only to find that the enemy had withdrawn . A few hundred yards down the road a burning lorry and one or two bodies indicated that they had run straight into the ...
Side 219
... ENEMY ATTACK 219 six , the shelling and mortaring hardly let up . Behind them , enemy planes made continued vain efforts to blow the bridges . The following day dawned ominously . The weather had wors- ened . This was bad for the build ...
... ENEMY ATTACK 219 six , the shelling and mortaring hardly let up . Behind them , enemy planes made continued vain efforts to blow the bridges . The following day dawned ominously . The weather had wors- ened . This was bad for the build ...
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... enemy command , the Japanese had been able to lighten their commitment there considerably so that now they had eight divisions for the immediate defence of Mandalay . Facing them , the 14th Army had rather less than five . In these ...
... enemy command , the Japanese had been able to lighten their commitment there considerably so that now they had eight divisions for the immediate defence of Mandalay . Facing them , the 14th Army had rather less than five . In these ...
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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