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This lightweight General Service Mk V device could immobilise Hitler’s heavy tanks and was used during fighting in Northwest Europe

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THE 1950s WAS QUITE A DECADE. There was plenty to worry about, like the Suez crisis, Korean war and the threat of nuclear apocalypse. But the postwar tech boom also brought passenger jets, power steer