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Courage under fire: the story of a WW2 tank regiment

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It's a Different Set of Misery in the Second World War

Being a tank crew in 19 forty four, forty five was really, really relentlessly awful. It's just the conditions of a sort of opera. And all the time you're taking casualties. You know, a crew gets knocked out, or no charley buys it, or johnny, or whatever, your best matead. Somehow you've got to keep goingju.

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