Word: stosstruppen
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Before he was made a captain he was given the job of liaison officer between the one and only British brigade front (two miles) and the French Army, and terrestrial life began anew. He encountered an amazingly well-organized reconnaissance raid by picked, leather-jacketed German Stosstruppen. There was Christmas Eve dinner with the Black Watch (this war was just one more between the Scots and the Germans). Queen Elizabeth sent them all plum puddings. There was the visit of George VI, when the King held his salute for a battalion of chasseurs a pied until the last little proud...
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