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Military Word Of The Day

OJTS

on-job training standard

Today in Military History

September 27

1918:

CANAL DU NORD, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Oct 18)

1918:

VC won by Lt George Fraser Kerr, 3rd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood (near Cambrai), France

1918:

VC won by Lt Graham Thomson Lyall, 102nd Battalion, CEF, Bourlon Wood

1941:

First Liberty ship, the Patrick Henry launched in Baltimore

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