Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment
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The Battle of Gil an Kirkan, in November 19 Forty Four
The 80 fourth rail spitters had only arrived in europe in october, and suddenly they were thrust into battle. They did better than was probably expected, than the conditions can have predicted. But just consistently, you know, they'e just got wise. There's all sorts of little sort of scraps and incidents where the shelder rangers really can'd have came to the fore still.
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