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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
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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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February 19
1690: A French-Indian force of some 200 men attack the English settlement at Schenectady, New York. The assault begins at 11p.m., taking the garrison and inhabitants by surprise. After burning the settlement and massacring most of the settlers, the raider
1915: British and French bombardment of the outer forts of the Dardanelles begun
1942: Japanese carrier raid on Darwin, Australia
1945: GOCH-CALCAR ROAD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 21 Feb 45)
1945: US troops land on Iwo Jima after 72 day bombardment
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