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Volume 5 - No. 108 - October 10, 1941

I Was There! - How We Spent The Last Days on Spitzbergen

Oct1941

I Was There! - How We Spent The Last Days on Spitzbergen

Among the Norwegians who came to England from Spitzbergen was Mrs. Mary Olsen, with her husband, Andor, and their 13-year-old daughter. Mrs. Olsen gave the following account of their last days in thei

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Full index of this magazine

  • Do We Really Need an Army of Millions?
  • Maybe There Will Be Battles in the Black Sea
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Triumph Is the World for These Sea Stories
  • Kiev Falls: The Nazi Drive in the Ukraine
  • Exit Riza Shah: A New Chapter in Persia
  • Our Diary of the War
  • New Halifaxes and Hurricanes Take the Air
  • Norway's Great Stand Against the Oppressor
  • I Was There! - What Caught My Eye in Besieged Odessa
  • I Was There! - We Did a Tour of Europe as Vichy Prisoners
  • I Was There! - How We Spent The Last Days on Spitzbergen
  • I Was There! - We Came from East and West to Bomb Berlin
  • Editor's Postscript