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Volume 6 - No. 142 - November 27, 1942

The Incomparable Air Photograph of the War!

Nov1942

The Incomparable Air Photograph of the War!

Lancasters Carrying Destruction to Le Creusot. One Saturday afternoon in October, 94 R.A.F. Lancasters set out to bomb the Schneider armament works at Le Creusot, 170 miles south-east of Paris. In t

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I Was There! - We Knocked Out 37 Axis Tanks in Egypt

Nov1942

I Was There! - We Knocked Out 37 Axis Tanks in Egypt

Described by their Corps Commander as "one of the finest actions of the war", a company of 8th Army riflemen, cut off by the enemy in the Western Desert, fought on for 36 hours and with their 6-pound

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Full index of this magazine

  • Along the Battle Fronts
  • How the Correspondents Saw Rommel Crack
  • The War at Sea
  • Anson and Howe: Our Two Newest Battleships
  • The Incomparable Air Photograph of the War!
  • Churchill Reveals Secrets of the Battle of Egypt
  • Across Africa the Allies Have a Highway
  • The War in the Air
  • The Home Front
  • I Was There! - We Knocked Out 37 Axis Tanks in Egypt
  • I Was There! - I'm Priest of a Church at 'Hell-Fire Corner'
  • I Was There! - My Year's Struggle to Join General De Gaulle
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Editor's Postscript