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7 British heavy bomber of World War II (7)
8 Rank immediately below brigadier in the British Army (7)
10 Battle fought in 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession (10)
11 British field marshal born in Edinburgh in 1861 (4)
12 Claymore and limpet are two examples (4)
13 Royal Navy Revenge-class battleship launched in 1915 (10)
15 Siegfried ___, British poet awarded the Military Cross in 1915 (7)
17 ___ Sergeant, NCO rank of the United States Marine Corps (7)
20 Vessels for transporting military personnel (10)
22 Churchill or Centurion, for example (4)
23 Delta ___, interceptor aircraft built by Convair (4)
24 Ottoman battleship sunk by British submarine in December 1914 (10)
25 German admiral, chief of military intelligence in World War II (7)
26 Store for weapons and ammunition (7)
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1 World War II flying boat built by Consolidated (8)
2 French port, site of a disastrous Allied raid in August 1942 (6)
3 Airborne soldiers (10)
4 British field marshal and Governor of Malta in 1942-1944 (4)
5 ___ War, conflict between Indians and English settlers in Virginia and Maryland (8)
6 Country where the Battle of Cuautla was fought in May 1911 (6)
9 Battle fought between Germany and Russia in July/August 1943 (5)
14 Fortress captured by the British in 1758 during the French and Indian War (10)
16 Armoured vehicle used for reconnaissance (5,3)
18 Battle fought in the Pyrenees in August 778 (8)
19 Soviet city taken by German forces in June 1941 (5)
21 Surname of actor who portrayed General Custer in Santa Fe Trail (1940) (6)
22 Marshal of the RAF, Deputy Supreme Commander at SHAEF under Eisenhower (6)
24 Armour made of metal rings or plates (4)
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Across: 7 Halifax, 8 Colonel, 10 Malplaquet, 11 Haig, 12 Mine,
13 Resolution, 15 Sassoon, 17 Gunnery, 20 Troopships, 22 Tank,
23 Dart, 24 Messoudieh, 25 Canaris, 26 Arsenal.
Down: 1 Catalina, 2 Dieppe, 3 Paratroops, 4 Gort, 5 Powhatan,
6 Mexico, 9 Kursk, 14 Louisbourg, 16 Scout car, 18 Ronceval,
19 Minsk, 21 Reagan, 22 Tedder, 24 Mail.
