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- Anthony McAuliffe
Acting commander of the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge in World War 11. He was in charge of the defense of Bastogne on December 22nd 1944 when the garrison wa

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Today in Military History

October 30



1917:

VC won by Lt Hugh MacKenzie, DCM, 7th Canadian Machine Gun Company, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium (posthumous)


1917:

VC won by Maj George Randolph Pearkes, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium


1917:

VC won by Pte Cecil John Kinross, 49th Battalion, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium


1917:

VC won by Sgt George Harry Mullin, MM, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, CEF, Passchendaele, Belgium




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