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| | | | | Another of the British War poets I discovered in my research of The Great War for my novel in progress, is Edmund Blunden. The poem I've included at the conclusion was inspired by his experience at the Somme in 1916. The first large offensive of the Battle of the Somme was the offensive at Thiepval... | |
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militaryhistorynow.com
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| | | | | "D-Day's 75th anniversary will represent the last large-scale gathering of living soldiers, sailors and airmen who took part in the fight for Europe." LAST WEEK'S commemorations of the anniversary of D-Day may now be over,... | |
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| | | My great grandfather, Benjamin Franklin Potts, was a U.S. infantryman in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, near Verdun, France, in 1918. My Nanna once asked him, "Well, Daddy, what did you think about France?" He said, "It's a very muddy place." At... | ||