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To Hang Out the Washing
To Hang Out the Washing
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Author(s): Lake, Joe
ISBN No.: 9781922830197
Pages: 192
Year: 202301
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 34.50
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Joe Lake was a private in the British Army from 1940 to 1945. In September 1940, when he was fourteen years old, he officially enlisted after convincing the recruiting officers he was nineteen. At that time, The Battle of Britain raged in the skies above England and Luftwaffe bombs rained down nightly on his home city of Birmingham. In England, he served as an infantryman in the South Staffordshires, and as a Red Beret in the Regiment's Glider Battalion, before landing at Normandy during the D-Day Allied invasion at Sword Beach in June 1944.By then, just eighteen years of age, he was a seasoned soldier, having had four years active service. He saw heavy action during the autumn and winter of 1944-45, through France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, first in the trenches, and then as a reconnaissance sniper for the 8th Brigade, often in No Man's Land between his and enemy lines.


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