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Volume 1 - No. 12 - December 2, 1939

I Was There! - The Fuehrer Had Just Left Us When...

Dec1939

I Was There! - The Fuehrer Had Just Left Us When...

Early in the morning of Friday, November 10, a few hours after the explosion in the Buergerbrau keller at Munich, what purported to be an eye-witness account of the incident was broadcast from all the

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I Was There! - Our Ship was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship

Dec1939

I Was There! - Our Ship was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship

It was the pocket battleship "Admiral Scheer" which sank the British cargo steamer "Clement" in the South Atlantic on September 30. This news was established when the "Clement's" master, Capt. F. C. P

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To The Dead

Dec1939

To The Dead

Your Peace, she never came of age, That Peace you bought with bitter price; Nor now survives in this dull rage One sign of all your sacrifice. Your sons must arm again to do What all you, dying

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • 'Planes in Action Above the Halted War
  • Empire Pilot's Unique Feat in the Aerial War
  • Dutchmen Refuse to be Rattled
  • France Has a 'Silent' Navy Too
  • French Flyers in Spectacular Air Battle
  • Solitary Watchers of the Skies
  • British Science Is Helping to Win the War
  • 'Battle Practice' Oils the A.R.P. Machine
  • 'Royal Ordnance' Won't Let the Soldiers Down
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • The Navy, Too, Fights in the Air
  • Once More Convoy Safe Home in Port
  • 'The German Menace Will Be Broken'
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • Yet Another Sea Crime in the Nazi Score
  • I Was There! - The Fuehrer Had Just Left Us When...
  • I Was There! - We Saw the Jewish Pogrom in Germany
  • I Was There! - We Tried to Save Our Mined Destroyer
  • I Was There! - We Spent Five Days in the 'Deutschland'
  • I Was There! - Our Ship was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship
  • First Bombs Dropped on Britain in This War
  • Our Diary of the War
  • To The Dead
  • It Is Said That...
  • Easy French Phrases For British Soldiers - 1.