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Official History of New Zealand
in the Second World War 1939–45
18 Battalion
and Armoured Regiment

W. D. DAWSON

WAR HISTORY BRANCH
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND 1961

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