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Build the Ships – Chapter 9 – Build the Little Ships

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Ruth Macadam

This chapter begins with a description of the Dieppe raid on August 19th 1942 comparing the vision of the fleet of destroyers, motor gun-boats, torpedo boats, escorts and landing barges as seen from above to looking onto hundreds of war canoes … Continue reading →

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