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Volume 9 - No. 207 - May 25, 1945

My Visit to Wartime Holland

May1945

My Visit to Wartime Holland

Control of the waterways is so important in Holland that a Government minister of public works (Waterstaat) is responsible for this feature of Dutch life, and each district in Holland has its own wate

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Dramatic Last Days of the War in the West

May1945

Dramatic Last Days of the War in the West

With bated breath the civilised world awaited the final dissolution of the Third Reich, which Hitler had boasted was to endure 1,000 years. One by one, day by day, the ignoble figureheads in this trag

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I Was There! - I Went With the Green Berets to Osnabruck

May1945

I Was There! - I Went With the Green Berets to Osnabruck

Senior Brigade Chaplain and R.C. Chaplain to the 1st Commando Brigade, the Rev. Terence Quinlan, R.N. (known throughout the Brigade as “The Bish”), tells how he stopped a sniper's bullet – and made hi

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