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Volume 6 - No. 150 - March 19, 1943

What Sort of a Land Is This Tunisia?

Mar1943

What Sort of a Land Is This Tunisia?

When the Anglo-Americans first passed from Algeria into Tunisia we published an article on the latter telling something of its history and its development under French rule. The Tunisian campaign has

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From India Wavell's Men Move into Burma

Mar1943

From India Wavell's Men Move into Burma

The military operations in the Burmese maritime province of Arakan are the prelude to large-scale offensives to reconquer Burma, the key to the Orient. Since it occupies a highly strategic position in

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I Was There - I Had a Live Shell in My Leg - and Didn't Know It

Mar1943

I Was There - I Had a Live Shell in My Leg - and Didn't Know It

One of the most extraordinary experiences of the War fell to the lot of H. J. Coates, of Islington. A 20-year-old Probationary Electrical Mechanic in the Royal Navy; he has wrote this story of his ama

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I Was There - We Were the Amnerican 'Lost Legion' in Tunisia

Mar1943

I Was There - We Were the Amnerican 'Lost Legion' in Tunisia

Surrounded by Nazi tanks in Southern Tunisia, a "lost" American battalion was led for more than nine miles, through the enemy lines and back to its own base by Major Robert R. Moore, of Vallisca, Iowa

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