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Valor Machine-gun Milhais

Aníbal Milhais stood alone on a hill in the Portuguese sector of the Western Front in France in 1918. Before him two German divisions advanced across no-man’s-land. Behind him his battalion of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps and a Scottish regiment fled, having been decimated by a massive preparatory artillery barrage.

The (“Kaiser’s Battle” in German) (“Soldier Million” in Portuguese).

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