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Volume 6 - No. 151 - April 2, 1943

Timoshenko Takes the Offensive in the North

Apr1943

Timoshenko Takes the Offensive in the North

Marshal Timoshenko, it was announced on March 1, 1943, had launched an offensive against the German 16th Army in the region of Lake Ilmen, and had captured the towns of Demyansk, Lychkovo and Zaluchye

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I Was There! - I Was in the Achates When She Fought to the End

Apr1943

I Was There! - I Was in the Achates When She Fought to the End

Ordinary Seaman Ted Cutler, who was the oldest man in the destroyer Achates, tells how his ship, fighting to the end against a German cruiser, was sunk during the defence of a convoy on the way to Rus

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • Newspapers the Men of the 8th Army Read
  • The War at Sea
  • Always Ready to Save Is the 'Salvation Navy'
  • Bomber Command's Hammer-blows on Germany
  • Under the Swastika
  • Timoshenko Takes the Offensive in the North
  • The War in the Air
  • The Home Front
  • I Was There! - We In France Honour the R.A.F.'s Glorious Dead
  • I Was There! - How London's Home Guard A.A. Greeted the Raiders
  • I Was There! - I Was in the Achates When She Fought to the End
  • I Was There! - We Dropped Our Picks & Shovels to Fight the Nazis
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Editor's Postscript