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Volume 8 - No. 190 - September 29, 1944

How We Blasted the Huns with Flame in France

Sep1944

How We Blasted the Huns with Flame in France

When Britain's fortunes were at lowest ebb in 1940 – when the Army had returned almost weaponless from Dunkirk and the full furry of Hitler's hordes threatened this country – Ramsgate beach saw the fi

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Armed Might that Gladdened the Heart of France

Sep1944

Armed Might that Gladdened the Heart of France

Thousands of U.S. Troops, with tanks and other armoured vehicles passed through the streets of Paris on August 29, 1944, on their way to the front. In a two-hour procession massed infantrymen marche

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I Was There! - Our Kill-or-Capture Raid on Thira Island

Sep1944

I Was There! - Our Kill-or-Capture Raid on Thira Island

The enemy-occupied Greek island of Thira was the recent objective of a raiding party, as described here by Sgt. Instructor D. B. Henderson of Perthshire. He tells how the German radio station was dest

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