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Volume 8 - No. 191 - October 13, 1944

The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Flying Bombs

Oct1944

The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Flying Bombs

"Except possibly for a few shots, the Battle of London is over," declared Mr. Duncan Sandys, M.P., Chairman of the War Cabinet Committee on operational counter-measures against the flying bomb, on Sep

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I Was There! - I Saw the Maginot Line Come to Life Again

Oct1944

I Was There! - I Saw the Maginot Line Come to Life Again

With hardly a shot having been fired, a stretch of the Maginot Line fell to U.S. 3rd Army troops on September 11, 1944. Cornelius Ryan, of The Daily Telegraph, found that the Germans had not demolishe

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Exploits of Our Special Air Service

Oct1944

Exploits of Our Special Air Service

Dramatic secret of the war, the existence of a unit of British parachutists who penetrate enemy territory, raid airfields, destroy planes on the ground, upset communications and ambush transport colum

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