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Volume 6 - No. 148 - February 19, 1943

I Was There! - In Six Hours I Shot Down Four German Raiders

Feb1943

I Was There! - In Six Hours I Shot Down Four German Raiders

On Sunday, January 17, 1943, following the great R.A.F. raid on Berlin, the Nazis came to drop bombs on London. Wing Commander Wight-Boycott, in the air for six hours, in a Beaufighter, tells here how

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • Into Tripoli Montgomery Marched in Triumph
  • The War at Sea
  • 'Mines Were Laid in Enemy Waters'
  • Under the Swastika
  • Leningrad's Epic of the Unknown Civilian
  • The War in the Air
  • Alamein to Tripoli: 1,400 Miles in 80 Days
  • I Was There! - These Men Juggle with Death on the Home Front
  • I Was There! - His Operating-Theatre was in Mid-Atlantic
  • I Was There! - 'All Hell Seemed to be Let Loose Beneath Us'
  • I Was There! - In Six Hours I Shot Down Four German Raiders
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Editor's Postscript