Remembering Luis Ortiz Alfau, Spanish civil war veteran who survived Guernica

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Remembering Luis Ortiz Alfau, Spanish civil war veteran who survived Guernica
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He said he never fired a shot during three years of conflict but instead delivering messages between the trenches and battalion command

used the bombing to test his new tactic of blitzkrieg, or lightning war, which he adopted, with horrifying success, over London in the Second World War.

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