Word: randal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Floods, pouring through demolished dikes, were so deep that often troops had to push through captured towns in amphibious vehicles. A British correspondent described the battleground as "the abomination of desolation." For days on end, he said, the troops had to stand waist deep in water. Canadian Pressman Alan Randal claimed that "conditions were the worst that the Western Front had seen in this war." He found two Canadian units that had been "fighting twelve nights and twelve days without rest...