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Page 238
... British unit , though this time not as Jewish soldiers awaiting demobilisation . They appeared as armed British soldiers , wearing the red berets of the Sixth Airborne Division whom the Jewish children had nicknamed the Kaloniyot ...
... British unit , though this time not as Jewish soldiers awaiting demobilisation . They appeared as armed British soldiers , wearing the red berets of the Sixth Airborne Division whom the Jewish children had nicknamed the Kaloniyot ...
Page 344
... British forces when they came to search for and to remove Jewish arms . The Haganah had followed this policy of giving up arms to the British -the official leaders always had an inferiority complex about the British - for nearly six ...
... British forces when they came to search for and to remove Jewish arms . The Haganah had followed this policy of giving up arms to the British -the official leaders always had an inferiority complex about the British - for nearly six ...
Page 368
... British forces opened a very heavy shelling of our positions . Many of our men were killed ; many were injured . Among those blown to pieces by British shells - we could only collect his scattered limbs - was Lieutenant Joshua , one of ...
... British forces opened a very heavy shelling of our positions . Many of our men were killed ; many were injured . Among those blown to pieces by British shells - we could only collect his scattered limbs - was Lieutenant Joshua , one of ...
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