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Operations Room Officer

Today in Military History

August 3

1914:

Germny declares war on France, Order for British mobilization

1941:

100,000 Soviet troops encircled in the Uman pocket

2005:

Sgt. (ret) Ernest A. SMOKEY Smith VC OBC, Canada's last Victoria Cross Recipeint dies in Vancouver BC at age 91

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