Reginald Wise: Saviour of Easter Sunday, 1945
It was Easter Sunday and April Fool’s Day, 1945—the day that Corporal Reginald Wise, who was no fool and no martyr either, would cheat death.
Stephen J. Thorne
November 28, 2018
It was Easter Sunday and April Fool’s Day, 1945—the day that Corporal Reginald Wise, who was no fool and no martyr either, would cheat death.
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