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Military Word Of The Day

DDE

destroyer escort

Today in Military History

July 13

1855:

Lieutenant G.D.Dowell. Royal Marine Artillery, awarded the Victoria Cross, Baltic

1943:

Germans Operation Zitadelle (Kursk salient) ends

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