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    Hertfordshire, 1997. ISBN 1-85326-677-9. Hetherington 1973, pp. 401–403. Wilmot, Chester, Allies Handed Stalin His Victory, Life Magazine, 10 March 1952 "Team...
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    Prong, but some were equipped with them nonetheless. War correspondent Chester Wilmot wrote after the war that the German defensive plan to halt any American...
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    Under Riots Films Abe Forsythe 2016 Mnevis Gods of Egypt Mystery Clock Cinema Alex Proyas 2014 Chester Wilmot Parer's War Pericles Films Alister Grierson...
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    February, 1985, Combat Studies Institute. Ambrose 2007, pp. 162–164. CHESTER WILMOT, THE STRUGGLE FOR EUROPE. Page 589 Zaloga 2008, pp. 184–193. Hugh Cole...
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    up and filled the air, as the artillery carried on the bombardment" Chester Wilmot, describing the opening of Operation Goodwood Shortly before dawn on...
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    Independent Parachute Company". Paradata. Retrieved April 7, 2010. Chester Wilmot. The Struggle for Europe. Wm Collins and Sons Ltd. p. 251. "Obituary...
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    murderer(historical resident) Shane Warne, cricketer (deceased 2022) Chester Wilmot, journalist and broadcaster Todd Woodbridge, tennis player Shane Crawford...
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    specialized tanks (Hobart's Funnies) in the Normandy invasion. After the war Chester Wilmot quoted correspondence with the developer of the tanks, Major General...
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    radio by the BBC with a commentary by the Australian war correspondent Chester Wilmot. The intimate detail of document translation and conversation interpretation...
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    those that were (such as the battery at Houlgate) were hit accurately. Chester Wilmot offers a different view, suggesting that "[the coastal guns] had been...
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    what I said was skillfully distorted by the enemy." BBC correspondent Chester Wilmot explained that "my dispatch to the BBC about it was intercepted by the...
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  • Connaught (1616–1644) Chester Wilmot (1911–1954), Australian war correspondent David Wilmot (1814–1868), American politician David Wilmot (actor), Irish stage...
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    Army in World War II Casemate March 9, 2020 The Struggle for Europe; Chester Wilmot Interviews with William Hood Simpson. 30 June 1976, 7 July 1976, University...
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    achievement "extraordinary" but one which failed to impress writers like Chester Wilmot and Charles Stacey, the Canadian official historian. Copp wrote that...
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    called the loss of bridges and terrain as "a great embarrassment to us". Chester Wilmot stated that the captured terrain was "of immense tactical value", which...
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    Canberra: Australian War Memorial. OCLC 954993. McDonald, N. (2004). Chester Wilmot Reports. Sydney: ABC Books. ISBN 978-0-7333-1441-4. Mountbatten, L....
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    passengers were related to BOAC employees. Among the casualties were Chester Wilmot, a prominent Australian journalist and military historian working for...
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    Churchill, son of the British PM at the time Winston Churchill and newsman Chester Wilmot when they were nearly killed by British artillery presuming they were...
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    rejected, either by Montgomery or Dempsey. In a postwar interview with Chester Wilmot, Dempsey claimed that he told Montgomery that he was going to cancel...
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    contemporary commentators such as Bernard Montgomery, Arthur R. Wilson and Chester Wilmot in the aftermath, mostly because of its geostrategic implications. Dragoon...
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    communities of Wilmot, Wilmot Flat, and North Wilmot. Incorporated in 1807 from part of New London, the Kearsarge gore, and a small piece of New Chester (later...
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    assemble enough troops for a serious counter-attack to retake Antwerp. Chester Wilmot agreed with this, claiming that the salient was of immense tactical...
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  • Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état Chester Wilmot Chris Hedges Christopher Morris Clair Kenamore, St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
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    to the British I Corps (Lieutenant-General John Crocker). Ellis and Chester Wilmot called the Allied plan "ambitious" since the Caen sector contained the...
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    however, that Rundstedt was well past his best. The military historian Chester Wilmot wrote soon after the war: "The truth was that Rundstedt had lost his...
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  • with Australian war photographer Damien Parer and war correspondent Chester Wilmot, White walked over the Bulldog Track to cover the guerrilla campaign...
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    are generally considered to be from 8 to 15, including six Tigers. Chester Wilmot states that this was a serious loss, as there were only 36 Tiger tanks...
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  • November 1897, he married Jane Marion Augusta Tracy. Wilmot's son, Reginald William Winchester "Chester" Wilmot (1911–1954), was a famed World War II correspondent...
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    would have been severe. The British historian A. J. P. Taylor credited Chester Wilmot's The Struggle For Europe (1952) as the work that "launched the myths...
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  • November – Steve Rogers (died 2006), Rugby league footballer 10 January – Chester Wilmot, war correspondent (b. 1911) 19 September – Miles Franklin, writer and...
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