The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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... looked about , and I seemed to be all alone . Still , I kept on firing at them . Then , when the enemy waves were about a hundred yards away , things got a bit too warm , so I picked up the gun , ran back about a hundred yards , and had ...
... looked about , and I seemed to be all alone . Still , I kept on firing at them . Then , when the enemy waves were about a hundred yards away , things got a bit too warm , so I picked up the gun , ran back about a hundred yards , and had ...
Side 132
... looked all its eight inches thick . The big 88 - milli- metre gun , stepping down in circumference like a telescope to the bulbous flash - eliminator at the muzzle , pointed blindly for a last enemy . The two 7.82 - millimetre machine ...
... looked all its eight inches thick . The big 88 - milli- metre gun , stepping down in circumference like a telescope to the bulbous flash - eliminator at the muzzle , pointed blindly for a last enemy . The two 7.82 - millimetre machine ...
Side 133
... looked like wearing the winning colours . There , too , Shermans , like the Churchills had done earlier , were going straight up the mountain - sides and by - passing the anti - tank guns . All these were tank battles . If any fresh ...
... looked like wearing the winning colours . There , too , Shermans , like the Churchills had done earlier , were going straight up the mountain - sides and by - passing the anti - tank guns . All these were tank battles . If any fresh ...
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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