| Del boy we had a fair number of Arnhem vets in my Battalion which i served. All of them had been decorated and had MM or MC depending on their rank. Our armourer had the MM which had earned by knocking out three German Tanks with a Sten Gun. The tanks had pulled up about 30 yards in front of their postions as they had run out of Piat Rounds and where shelling them to bits. His mate was blown to bits next to him and he lost it and he charged the tanks just with his sten gun when he got to them he climbed up on them and empty the magazine threw an observation slit and he repeated that three time killing all the tank crews, While this was going on the German infantry where blasting away at him with every thing they had and not a bullet touched him. As an Officer was not present he could not get VC and was happy to get the MM. That soldier was a Joe Millward.
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