sapper
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31 sectionsContents
- Historical origin
- Sapper
- Miner
- Specific usage
- Commonwealth of Nations
- Australia
- Canada
- Indian Army
- Israel
- Japan
- Imperial Japanese Army (IJA)
- Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF)
- France
- History
- Firefighters
- Pioneers
- Greece
- Italy
- Portugal
- Pakistan Army
- United States Army
- PAVN and Viet Cong
- Ottoman Empire
- Honors
- In fiction
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- External links
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A sapper, also called a combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties, such as breaching fortifications, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, preparing field defenses, and road and airfield construction and repair.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sapper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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