Rifleman Tulbahadur Pun then seized the Bren gun, and firing from the hip as he went, continued the charge on this heavily bunkered position alone, in the face of the most shattering concentration of automatic fire, directed straight at him….
Despite …overwhelming odds, he reached the Red House and closed with the Japanese occupants.
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