Word: visting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were specially deadly because the Allied advance force had no artillery, no anti-aircraft batteries, no air support, no anti-tank guns. They did not even have white capes for snow-fighting. They were shocked, and shot up, when they met the Germans only three miles below Steinkjer, at Vist. For most of the British boys it was their first fighting, after only one year of training. They soon lost half their men-dead, wounded or captured-and survivors were lucky to retire north of Steinkjer after the Germans had landed reinforcements in their rear from warships...