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From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU
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Subject: Re: Gurkhas
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.023306.29227@cbnews.cb.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 02:33:06 GMT
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From: scw@ollie.SEAS.UCLA.EDU

In article <1991Jun27.013943.28703@cbnews.cb.att.com>  writes:
>From: att!bcr!mruxb!patter 
>The Gurkha battalions were formed to fight. Period. The first use in
>WW II of which I'm aware was in North Africa while Britain and Japan were

I strongly recomend the first 2 volumes (of 3) in John Masters' autobiographry
\Bugles, and a Tiger/ and \The Road to Mandalay/.  Maj. Masters was an officer
in the 9th Gurka Rifles (I'll bet that I got that wrong), in addition he was
a wonderful story teller.  
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