Word: brenning
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...Near Haifa, a British Bren gun carrier struck a road mine, turned over. Casualties: one British officer, three enlisted men, all killed...
...foot with a platoon of Chinese troops from the Burma side. The cocky little foot soldiers who had mopped up the north Burma jungle saw a knot of blue-grey, raggle-taggle men at the junction and wanted to fire on them. Sliney threw himself in front of the Bren gun. They were Chinese from the other side of the block and they cheered and yelled as the American walked...
Russia was using tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain...
...paused for a few seconds in a gateway to take pictures, and because of the noisy barrage was not aware that I was blocking the way for three Bren carriers until the driver of one tapped me politely on the shoulder and shouted: "Excuse me, mate-but there's a war on, yer know...
Spasmodic fire from the buildings near the haystacks pinned us down in the ditch for some minutes, but after Bren gunners gave the buildings a good going-over, it stopped, and four Jerries surrendered by silhouetting themselves with their hands high, between us and the burning haystacks...