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Volume 5 - No. 101 - August 8, 1941

I Was There! - We Went in a Motor-Boat from Crete to Africa

Aug1941

I Was There! - We Went in a Motor-Boat from Crete to Africa

One party of soldiers and airmen who escaped from Crete crossed the Mediterranean to North Africa in a boat designed for calm coastal waters. Their story is told here by an Australian sergeant air-gun

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Full index of this magazine

  • Moscow Calling! Message For Frau Kremer!
  • Russia's Canals in Their Background of Strategy
  • They Keep the Heart of Britain Beating True
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Russia's Magnificent Stand Against the Invader
  • Have the Germans Found Their Match at Last?
  • With the Royal Navy in the Syrian Campaign
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Air Views of Hamburg: What Do They Show?
  • Where the 'Bombed Out' Are Sure of a Welcome
  • I Was There! - We Went in a Motor-Boat from Crete to Africa
  • I Was There! - How I Plodded 200 Miles Across Libyan Sands
  • I Was There! - What a Pity the 'Enemy Ships' Were Dummies!
  • I Was There! - My First Flights Over the Enemy's Country
  • The Editor's Postscript