WW2: Tank Hero in Battle of Arras
Warfare
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Is It Racism?
Young officers were given bearers, you know, to general s factotum servants. In my father's case, his bearer was a patan tribesman called baga kan. They became great friends very quickly,. My young strick and his bearer. Unusually for officers in those days, he even got to know his bearer's family. But that was a or which separated him from most of his other english friends who couldn't really understand how an officer could be mixing with the indians on equal terms.
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