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"ref": "1997 June 1, “The secret sites of an underground war”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-03-03:",
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"ref": "2019 July 15, Philip Cracknell, Battle for Hong Kong, December 1941, Amberley Publishing Limited, →ISBN:",
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