COLD COAST FIGHTERS
LONDON, March 6. On the Arakan front West African troops, husky warriors from 'Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast, have made more than 170 sorties behind the Japanese lines in the past six weeks, and the enemy has come to know them as ferocious fighters, especially with the bayonet Their officers say that when they make one of their surprise attacks the Japanese have been knojvn to run about in all directions screaming with. terror. ~..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 5
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79COLD COAST FIGHTERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 5
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