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“ Officers have similar fencing practice with bamboo broadswords and they develop amazing agility . I have seen an officer with a broadsword take on a soldier with a bayonet in mock combat and defeat him . Officers carry their real ...
“ Officers have similar fencing practice with bamboo broadswords and they develop amazing agility . I have seen an officer with a broadsword take on a soldier with a bayonet in mock combat and defeat him . Officers carry their real ...
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Of these , 58 per cent . were British troops from the United Kingdom , with a much larger proportion of officers owing in the Prime Minister's words ) to all the armoured formations being British . ” The magnitude of the British victory ...
Of these , 58 per cent . were British troops from the United Kingdom , with a much larger proportion of officers owing in the Prime Minister's words ) to all the armoured formations being British . ” The magnitude of the British victory ...
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American self - propelled 105 - mm . gun have not yet been generally forthcoming ; but it is perhaps significant that one leading tank officer ” is reported by a British correspondent as saying that “ we still have not got quite as good ...
American self - propelled 105 - mm . gun have not yet been generally forthcoming ; but it is perhaps significant that one leading tank officer ” is reported by a British correspondent as saying that “ we still have not got quite as good ...
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