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Volume 5 - No. 127 - May 1, 1942

I Was There! - We Went With the Raiders to St. Nazaire

May1942

I Was There! - We Went With the Raiders to St. Nazaire

Supplementing the official story on St. Nazaire (see page 627), here are eye-witness accounts by Gordon Holman, Reuter's and Exchange Telegraph correspondent, and men who participated in the operation

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Full index of this magazine

  • India: Sir Stafford Opens the Doors
  • Colombo Where the Air Defences Were Ready
  • America's Soldiers Arrive Safely in Australia
  • Russia's Murmansk Door Must Be Kept Open
  • What Free French Africa Means To Us
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Russia Will Smash Hitler's War Machine
  • At Bataan They Fought to the Last Cartridge
  • Malta: So Small in Size, So Great in Spirit
  • Ever Nearer to India Stride the Japanese
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Bombs on Germany - The R.A.F. Strikes Again
  • Critical Indeed Will Be 1942's Harvest
  • I Was There! - We Went With the Raiders to St. Nazaire
  • I Was There! - We Weathered a Wild Night in the Atlantic
  • Editor's Postscript