All the Colonel asked me was "which unit were you with before you were commissioned?". When I told...
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In far off lands, there side by side The Kaisers armies they defied Before they'd yield, they nobly...
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If a kite had a tear in the side, we had to fix Alclad onto the wing and drill it so that...
Careless Talk Costs Lives"; another was a terrifying illustration of a red-eyed, steel helmeted German...
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