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| The first National Service Acts were passed during the Second World War. However, following the war, conscription was extended as peacetime National Service. |
| Probably no weapon is more representative of the great era of British battleships than the 15-inch gun. |
| The history of a remarkable commemorative scheme. |
| As soon as the Allies had established a beachhead after the D-Day landings, they pushed inland because they wanted to pull the German Army into a decisive battle. |
| Between the beginning of November and the middle of December 1943, Grand Admiral Doenitz came under increasing pressure to sanction a sortie by one of Germany's few remaining heavy surface ships to interrupt the flow of supplies via the Arctic convoy route. |
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