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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy (about Pearl Harbor, 1942)

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Today in Military History

May 17



1889:

The Governor General's Horse Guards: Nulli Secundus


1963:

WO II Walter (Rocky) Leja of the 3rd Field Engineer Regiment was critically injured while defusing a mailbox bomb in Westmount, Quebec. He was awarded the George Medal.




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