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Volume 5 - No. 109 - October 20, 1941

I Was There! - How We Escaped from Internment at Dakar

Oct1941

I Was There! - How We Escaped from Internment at Dakar

After being interned at Dakar for fourteen months, a handful of Allied merchant marine officers outwitted the Vichy authorities and sailed out in a new steamer, as told here by the captain. Telling

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Full index of this magazine

  • Need the Nazis Worry About Oil?
  • Soviet War Posters Show the Will to Win
  • Filling the Gaps in Britain's Labour Front
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • The Moscow Conference: Full Aid for Russia
  • Strange, the Czechs Don't Like Nazi 'Protection'!
  • Phases in the Far-flung Battle of the Seas
  • Our Diary of the War
  • British Tanks for the Battle of Russia
  • What the Soldier Eats and How He Gets It
  • I Was There! - What We Saw on the Smolensk Battlefield
  • I Was There - There Were 82 of Us in an Open Boat - 44 Died
  • I Was There! - En Route to Turin We Nearly Hit the Alps
  • I Was There! - How We Escaped from Internment at Dakar
  • Editor's Postscript