World Battlefronts: Greek Meets Strange Greek

Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital.

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