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flak

Term used by Allied troops and airmen in World War II to describe anti-aircraft fire from the German abbreviation for Flugzeugabwehrkanone - ‘aircraft attack gun’.

A flak jacket was an armoured jacket worn by air crews as a defence against bullets and shell fragments.
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