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Word: ploegsteert (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One More Close Call | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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