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Thread #59722   Message #1678334
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
25-Feb-06 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Entrance Lines
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
"Hier spricht Schorsch Hiese" = "This is (Sgt) George Hiese speaking" when opening fire with his machine gun on the beach of Tanga, Dec 4, 1914.
A British attack with one Irish and three Indian regiments was repelled by eight companies of German regulars and volunteers in German South West (now Tanganyika).