Volume 9 - No. 213 - August 17, 1945
Aug1945
Now It Can Be Told! - Last Glorious Fight of the Glowworm
In one of the most daring and courageous sea-battles of the war, the British destroyer H.M.S. Glowworm, of 1,345 tons, fought a single-handed duel at point-blank range with the 10,000-ton German cruis
Aug1945
Now It Can Be Told! - We Ferried Invasion Trains to France
While planning the invasion of the Continent it was realized that as soon as we were established on the far shore railway communications behind our lines would be of major importance and that locomoti
Aug1945
I Was There! - We Settled a Jap Cruiser in Malacca Straits
Early in the morning of May 16, 1945, a destroyer flotilla of the East Indies Fleet intercepted a Japanese cruiser in the Malacca Straits and sank her after a spirited engagement. Story of the action
Full index of this magazine
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- The Royal Navy's Big Debt to the 'Wavy Navy'
- Now It Can Be Told! - British Maquis Were Ready For Invaders
- Now It Can Be Told! - Last Glorious Fight of the Glowworm
- Now It Can Be Told! - We Ferried Invasion Trains to France
- 'Home Is the Sailor, Home From Sea'
- Views & Reviews
- Holland Now Faces Vast Task of Rebuilding
- I Was There! - Winged 'King's Messengers' Go Home Again
- I Was There! - We Settled a Jap Cruiser in Malacca Straits
- I Was There! - At the Receiving End of the Jungle Supplies
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
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