The Devons: A History of the Devonshire Regiment, 1685-1945White Swan Press, 1951 - 339 sider |
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Side 158
... round the corner , and was all for going round the corner without further pretence . * The Malta Brigade's combined operation had first been put forward from Scilla to Goya . But the Eighth Army was itself in Goya by September the 6th ...
... round the corner , and was all for going round the corner without further pretence . * The Malta Brigade's combined operation had first been put forward from Scilla to Goya . But the Eighth Army was itself in Goya by September the 6th ...
Side 222
... round La Belle Epine cross - roads . The wisdom of this decision was simultaneously apparent in the sighting of enemy tanks on the high ground to the south , round La Senadière . These tanks were immediately made the subject of a ...
... round La Belle Epine cross - roads . The wisdom of this decision was simultaneously apparent in the sighting of enemy tanks on the high ground to the south , round La Senadière . These tanks were immediately made the subject of a ...
Side 253
... round Ukhrul . Over the fighting for Imphal and Kohima had always hung the shadow of the 1944 monsoon . The start of the monsoon had been the Japanese deadline for victory . If by then they were not in Kohima and masters of the plain ...
... round Ukhrul . Over the fighting for Imphal and Kohima had always hung the shadow of the 1944 monsoon . The start of the monsoon had been the Japanese deadline for victory . If by then they were not in Kohima and masters of the plain ...
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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