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The very idea of carrying out a night-time airborne landing of such a small force into the midst of the German army seemed to me to be little more than a suicide mission. ... Yet another rifleman who was carried to the beach in the LCVP's relates one of his incidents: "I got on the gun. ... They both attempted more than they had the strength to handle. ... Right after Dieppe, things began to go better for the Allies. in the fall of 1942 the British 8th army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery, defeated the Germans and Italians in Egypt- the first in a series of defeats that was t...
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- Grade Level: High School