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Volume 8 - No. 188 - September 1, 1944

Will The Nazi War Machine Run Dry and Crash?

Sep1944

Will The Nazi War Machine Run Dry and Crash?

A yearly average of 12,000,000 tons of liquid fuel has been needed by Germany to support her mechanized forces alone. The supply now is running dangerously short; for the Nazi home front, too, the

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I Was There! - We Pounded the Japanese Stronghold of Sabang

Sep1944

I Was There! - We Pounded the Japanese Stronghold of Sabang

The crippling 35 minute surprise attack by Admiral Somerville’s Eastern Fleet on July 25th, 1944, against the dockyard, harbour installations, wireless equipment and workshops at Sabang, the Japanese-

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I Was There! - I Visited a Bombed-Out Flying-Bomb Site

Sep1944

I Was There! - I Visited a Bombed-Out Flying-Bomb Site

Pointed at Bristol, bombed by Allied Air Forces into abandonment, a flying bomb installation at Martinvast, Normandy, has been inspected by war correspondent Peter Duffield. His story, and interview w

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I Was There! - When those Victory Salvos Roar in Moscow

Sep1944

I Was There! - When those Victory Salvos Roar in Moscow

Since the guns of Moscow fired their first thunderous salvos in August 1943 in celebration of the liberation of Orel, there have been many scores of these salutes to enliven and encourage the Muscovit

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I Was There! - They Bake 1,000 Loaves a Day for Invasion Craft

Sep1944

I Was There! - They Bake 1,000 Loaves a Day for Invasion Craft

Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Allied Naval C.-in-C., has sent a message of congratulation to the men in the landing ships engaged in the vitally important work of building up supplies in Normandy. Here

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Britain's Colonies in the War: No. 13 - Mauritius

Sep1944

Britain's Colonies in the War: No. 13 - Mauritius

Stout support from another small but strong British Empire island, Mauritius, which became a British colony in 1814, aids the United Nations towards victory. Lying in the Indian Ocean, in Port Louis i

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