Archive for March 1st, 2011

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    On This Date – March 2011

    March 1, 2011 by admin
    MARCH 1, 1917: Fourth Canadian Division launches a poison gas raid against German positions on Vimy Ridge. It ends in disaster as many of the Canadians are overcome by gas when the wind changes direction and when German artillery fire ruptures some of the gas...
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    Assignment Afghanistan: Kill Town Salavat

    March 1, 2011 by Adam Day
    It had been a good summer for him. He was a good fighter, strong. His name might have been Mirwais or Muhammad or maybe Zalmai. He wasn’t from Salavat, this small town in central Panjwai, but he was an Afghan and he’d come here to fight...