A very interesting exercise, involving some three to four hundred Home Guards

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A very interesting exercise, involving some three to four hundred Home Guards

A very interesting exercise, involving some three to four hundred Home Guards, recently took place in a mining area in the North of England.
10:30 hours on 3rd August 1940 was zero hour and as the battle developed, gun post crews in particular showed considerable initiative in withdrawing from various positions after harassing the enemy.
It was assumed at one period that enemy paratroops, distinguished by steel helmets, had landed a
few miles outside a town and had forced their way to its suburbs where pitched battles were fought.
Nearly all the men in this district are miners and together with their employers they took part in the exercise Street fighting in the suburbs of the town, the steel helmeted attackers are met by the defending forces.
August 1941

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