Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Novelist's D-Day Dud Gets Another Shot at History
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Simon de Burxelles reports that Nevil Shute's World War II invention, the Great Panjandrum, was re-created and detonated during British D-Day commemorations in June 2009.

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