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TIL that New Zealand's most decorated battalion in WW2 is the 28th, or the Māori Battalion. They were renowned for their fierce fighting spirit and extreme bravery, such that Rommel is even rumored to have said: "Give me the Maori Battalion and I will conquer the world".

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