Word: premindra
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
Lieut. Bhagat continued gambling with death for 96 hours without halt. He was ambushed once, blown up once, had his eardrum split. The commander called Premindra Singh Bhagat's labor "the longest continued feat I have ever seen of sheer cold courage...
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