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A 21 year old architect and officer cadet named Edmund Roman Orlik, together with his driver Bronisław Zakrzewski, made the most of the tankette's small size, maneuverability, and low profile to destroy a surprising number of Nazi tanks,
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“That Astronomical Annoyance, the Star Shell, Which Momentarily Enables You to Scrutinize the Kind of Mud You Are In.”
― Bullets and Billets
― Bullets and Billets
“Whenever I don't state the climatic conditions, read "raining.”
― Bullets and Billets
― Bullets and Billets
“Our section chief found himself there in conversation with a “Fritz” who spoke fairly good French. He was saying that they were mostly Poles in his regiment. They wouldn’t surrender, because the Germans would take it out on their families and their property. But this Pole suddenly indicated that someone was coming along the boyau, and he dropped down, calling out Vive la Pologne! Vive la France!”
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
― Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
“I don't know that it is possible to construct anything more atrociously hideous or uninteresting than a Base Camp. It consists, in military parlance, of nothing more than:—
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500”
― Bullets and Billets
Fields, grassless 1
Tents, bell 500”
― Bullets and Billets
“It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.”
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