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From Normandy to the Scheldt

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Gordon Henry's Tank, the Comtesse De Fer

Gordon henry, who arrived just to the southeast of bretville on the morning of the ninth of june with a troop of tanks from te fort. And he's got about ten or 12 tanks, the information is not quite clear. By all accounts, his gunner, a gun named chapman, kills five panthers with five shots in about four minutes. He was lining up for his sixth when his troop, sergeant ark boyle, put around into it. The germans just scamper away. When people asked afterwards, why wasn't gordon henry celebrated as some kind of hero? Cause this is quite a remarkable accomplishment by any standards. His er said

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