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Volume 6 - No. 152 - April 16, 1943

After 165 Years H.M.S. Victory Still Serves

Apr1943

After 165 Years H.M.S. Victory Still Serves

Nelson's flagship in his last and greatest battle is now being used as a naval barracks. Fifty prospective Naval officers, studying for commissions and awaiting their Selection Board (they will become

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Knocked Out? Tanks Today Have Nine Lives!

Apr1943

Knocked Out? Tanks Today Have Nine Lives!

Already in an earlier page we have described and pictured the work of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, but here follows from the pen of ALEXANDER DILKE a fuller account, incorporating wh

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I Was There! - We Formed Human Pyramids to Cross Wadi Zigzau

Apr1943

I Was There! - We Formed Human Pyramids to Cross Wadi Zigzau

A young British major with a bullet embedded an inch above his heart continued to lead his men at the storming of Wadi Zigzau, in the first stage of the Mareth Line attack. Paul Bewsher, Daily Mail Sp

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