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Volume 9 - No. 209 - June 22, 1945

Now It Can Be Told! - 'Operation Pluto'

Jun1945

Now It Can Be Told! - 'Operation Pluto'

One of the Greatest supply stories of the war was released on May 23, 1945, when the existence of an oil pipeline system across the bed of the Channel to the Continent was revealed. This all-British t

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I Was There! - Blasted for Hours Off the Coast of Japan

Jun1945

I Was There! - Blasted for Hours Off the Coast of Japan

How Japanese bombs struck the 27,000-tons aircraft carrier U.S.S. Franklin on March 19, about 60 miles off the southern coast of Japan, causing one of the most appalling losses of American lives in na

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Full index of this magazine

  • With Our Armies Today
  • With Our Navies Today
  • The Problem of Trieste - Port of Contention
  • How the P.O.W. Problem is Being Solved
  • Views & Reviews
  • Japan May Be Seared Out of the War by Fire
  • Now It Can Be Told! - 'Operation Pluto'
  • I Was There! - How Germany's Vaunted Underwater Navy Died
  • I Was There! - We Found a U-Boat Nest in Bergen Harbour
  • I Was There! - Blasted for Hours Off the Coast of Japan
  • I Was There! - We Sent a Jap 'Island' to the Bed of the Sea
  • Our Diary of the War
  • With Our Airmen Today
  • Editor's Postscript