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Volume 8 - No. 201 - March 2, 1945

H.M.S. Indefatigable

Mar1945

H.M.S. Indefatigable

H.M.S. Indefatigable, Britain's newest Aircraft Carrier, was first reported in action off Sumatra on January 24 and 29, 1945, when battleships and aircraft-carriers of the British East Indies Fleet

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The War at Sea

Mar1945

The War at Sea

It is a truism to say that modern warfare depends entirely upon supplies of oil being plentiful. Ships, aircraft, tanks and transport all rely for propulsion upon petroleum in a more or less refined f

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I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target

Mar1945

I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target

In the great bombing raid on Singapore on Feb. 1, 1945, the 50,000-tons dry dock was sunk – for the second time. Built in Britain and towed in sections 8,000 miles to Singapore, it was sunk by us when

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • H.M.S. Indefatigable
  • The War at Sea
  • How India's Proud New Navy Came Into Being
  • Can Hitler Wage War Without Front Lines
  • Enemy Forces Lured to their Doom by Bluff
  • In the Wake of Our Armies Marches U.N.R.R.A.
  • Views & Reviews
  • I Was There! - Back in Manila, the Philippines Capital
  • I Was There! - Down a Mine for a Night's Work with a Bevin Boy
  • I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target
  • I Was There! - They Wear as Badge the Burma Peacock
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The War in the Air
  • Editor's Postscript