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- Douglas MacArthur, 1880 - 1964

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Today in Military History

January 12



1915:

German use of poison shells reported from Paris


1916:

An Order-in-Council authorizes an increase of troops to 500,000 in the First World War


1943:

HMCS Ville de Quebec sinks the German submarine U-224 in the western Mediterranean Sea




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