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Volume 8 - No. 189 - September 15, 1944

'Magic Carpets' Help to Keep our Forces Moving

Sep1944

'Magic Carpets' Help to Keep our Forces Moving

Bogged vehicles and grounded aircraft are millstones around the neck of an army; if its transport ceases to flow, offensive action becomes impossible and defence a matter of uncertainty. How perplexin

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The Story Behind Britain's Vast Radio Blitz

Sep1944

The Story Behind Britain's Vast Radio Blitz

Every hour of the 24 the air over Europe is charged with the War-Voice of Britain sent out by the B.B.C. In frantic endeavour to quell the unceasing Voice from London the Nazis are devoting more ti

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I Was There! - We Opened the Fourth Front in Southern France

Sep1944

I Was There! - We Opened the Fourth Front in Southern France

British, U.S. and French troops landed on the Riviera on August 15, 1944 – and within a week 2,000 square miles of territory in the South of France had been liberated. Maurice Fagence of the Daily Her

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I Was There! - I Saw the Mad Colonel of St. Malo Surrender

Sep1944

I Was There! - I Saw the Mad Colonel of St. Malo Surrender

Having sworn to defend St. Malo, in Normandy, to the last drop of blood, Colonel von Auloch headed an ignoble procession of 605 Germans to surrender – the day after Hitler had presented him with the O

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