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Although Lord Louis Mountbatten oversaw India’s postwar independence from Britain and was later murdered in a headline-grabbing IRA bombing, history best remembers him for the World War II debacle at Dieppe. Despite Mountbatten’s mediocre combat record, his royal connections (he was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria), charm and film star looks led Prime Minister Winston …
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