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27. The People's Fight

Battleground

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Did You Remember the General Cripey Story?

Commando outfit was put ashore in what's now Libya to attack Rommel's headquarters. It turned out that the building they thought was Rommel's HQ was a store room. Jeffrey Keys got a VC for this, which actually makes one wonder slightly about VCs. Cripey story is much more tragic, of course, than Rommel.

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