Word: fadel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Second member of Egypt's royal family to die within a week. Her cousin, Princess Amina Bahruz Fadel, 61, was killed two days earlier in a plane crash off Terracina, Italy...
Private Louis Fadel looked out of his foxhole, saw men in khaki shorts, khaki shirts and pith helmets across the river. They looked like British soldiers. A faint voice called: "Don't fire on us. We're friends. We're friends." Fadel's sergeant ordered his men to hold their fire...
...violent stream of artillery and machine-gun fire tore the platoon positions. Said Private Fadel: "We weren't fooled any longer. Our artillery started knocking hell out of the houses across the river, and when men in pith helmets came rushing from the buildings, screaming for mercy, we opened up at them with everything we had. We wouldn't let them go after that trick...