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Old 09-20-2006, 11:20 AM   #28 (permalink)
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Sidney Jary MC. He was one of very, very few (IIRC he may even have been the only) British platoon commander to stay alive, unwounded and in charge of his Platoon all the way from D-Day to VE-Day. He must have been doing something right to get that far - infantry battalions lived longer on the Somme than in Normandy...
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