Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 257William Blackwood, 1945 - England |
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... yards when streams of machine - gun tracer bullets whistled across our front , intersecting at a point about a hundred yards directly ahead of us . The enemy were firing across our front on fixed lines ; some mortars added to our dis ...
... yards when streams of machine - gun tracer bullets whistled across our front , intersecting at a point about a hundred yards directly ahead of us . The enemy were firing across our front on fixed lines ; some mortars added to our dis ...
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... yards without realising it was there at all . About two hundred yards to the right was a well - cultivated olive grove , and shortly after dawn we heard the sound of a motor starting up from that direction . We went out to investigate ...
... yards without realising it was there at all . About two hundred yards to the right was a well - cultivated olive grove , and shortly after dawn we heard the sound of a motor starting up from that direction . We went out to investigate ...
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... yards ahead , and when it was dark enough pulled in the observation post . We could still hear the patrol moving about in the olive grove , and I decided after consultation with the gunner officer to try and beat them out by getting our ...
... yards ahead , and when it was dark enough pulled in the observation post . We could still hear the patrol moving about in the olive grove , and I decided after consultation with the gunner officer to try and beat them out by getting our ...
Contents
A Subscribers Tribute to Maga | 72 |
A COLONEL OF THE FRONTIER FORCE BY LIEUT COLONEL | 72 |
Salute | 134 |
Copyright | |
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