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G'day, I've checked the source and that is how James describes it, but I think you are right. There seems to be a lack of clarity in the way James describes the situation. I've tried to make it a bit clearer that the 24th and 58th/59th moved together in mid-April, while the 57th/60th began moving in
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Another battle of the final stages of the Second World War on
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I do not think that this is necessarily needed in this article, however it does have me curious. My own reading on
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I believe some had howitzers (Long p. 184); during the description of the fighting at Slater's Knoll, James (p. 206) says they fired high explosive shells, but not what they were armed with. Regards,
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Thanks, Nikki, I've updated the link for the first one, and replaced the second image as unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an archive version for the
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