MERRILL - Maybe losing the arm saved his life. Ralph Wehlitz can't exactly remember which day shrapnel from a German mortar shell shredded his left hand and lower arm. It was around Jan. 18, 1944, he ...
A shard of shrapnel hidden inside one of a Dorset museum’s most popular exhibits for more than 80 years has helped provide an insight into the history of tank warfare during the Second World War.