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You can't describe the moral lift,
when in the fight your spirits weary
hears above the hostile fire,
Your own artillery.
Shells score the air like wavy hair
from a forward battery.
As regimental cannon crack
While from positions further back,
in bitter sweet song overhead
crashing discordantly
Division's pounding joins the attack;
Mother like she belches shell;
Glorious it flies, and well,
As, with a hissing screaming squall,
A roaring furnace, giving all,
she sears a path for the infantry....

- Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin" 1943.

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Today in Military History

September 14



1852:

The Duke of Wellington Dies


1857:

VC won by Surgeon Herbert Taylor Reade, 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot (British Army), Delhi, India


1866:

The Elgin Regiment: Officium Primum


1866:

The Grey and Simcoe Foresters: Tenacious and Versatile


1866:

The Highland Fusiliers of Canada: Defence


1866:

The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment): Air Son Ar Duthchais (For our heritage)


1866:

The Ontario Regiment: Fidelis et Paratus


1866:

The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)


1944:

RIMINI LINE, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 21 Sept 44)


2011:

Taliban occupy building and conduct attacks on ISAF HQ and US Embassy in Kabul.




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