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10 The Highland Light Infantry advance some three miles through close and wooded country

1945-04-29 · Artlenburg · Germany

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Our immediate task was to advance some three miles through close and wooded country to occupy a rather empty" feature," while the Gordons on our left pushed down the main road through the forest to reach the river four miles west of our crossing place and then clear the pocket they had thus made.

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