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TIL of Fazal Din, a British Indian Army soldier who was impaled by the sword of a Japanese officer . He pulled out the sword, killed the officer who stabbed him and another enemy soldier, destroyed an entire enemy position, and walked 25 yards with a hole in his chest to deliver his report.

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