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Volume 8 - No. 198 - January 19, 1945

Troopships That Never Fail the Battle-Lines

Jan1945

Troopships That Never Fail the Battle-Lines

Behind official totals of Allied troops successfully carried over the seas are many half-divulged stories of brilliant achievements of troopships by the hundred. All types and sizes of vessels are the

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How the Army's Amazing Bailey Bridge is Built

Jan1945

How the Army's Amazing Bailey Bridge is Built

A revolution in military engineering has earned high praise from Field-Marshal Montgomery – a permanent way which can be assembled on the spot to span a river or gap and carry the weight of the heavie

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • The War at Sea
  • Troopships That Never Fail the Battle-Lines
  • Miracle of South-East Asia Air Command
  • Armour Again Saves Our Fighting Men's Lives
  • Views & Reviews
  • How the Army's Amazing Bailey Bridge is Built
  • I Was There! - Tanks Ran Right Over the American Foxholes
  • I Was There! - How We Captured a Member of the Gestapo
  • I Was There! - Our Submarine's Fight with Nine Japanese Ships
  • I Was There! - Hot Burma Jungle Race for a £1,500,000 Store
  • I Was There! - Stone Age Terrors I Saw in Devastated Russia
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The War in the Air
  • Editor's Postscript