Volume 9 - No. 214 - August 31, 1945
Aug1945
Russia Smashes In to End the War With Japan
Soviet Russia declared war on Japan on August 8, 1945, when Mr. Molotov, Russian Foreign Commissar, informed Mr. Sato, the Japanese Ambassador to Moscow, that the declaration would come into operation
Aug1945
Thoughts on the Peace of Potsdam
The Berlin Conference of 1945 will long be remembered as one of the red letter events in world history; its importance outweighs that of the once celebrated Congress of Berlin (1878) as greatly as the
Aug1945
Now It Can Be Told! - How Royal Marines Hacked a Base From Jungle
The dramatic story of another secret war port was revealed by the Admiralty in July 1945. It is the story of "Port T" – a naval base with full defences – hacked out of the jungle on Addu Atoll, a coll
Aug1945
Now It Can Be Told! - Goebbels Tried to Make Peace Terms
As the Nazi Reich lay in its death agonies, Goebbels offered to play Judas to his master, Adolf Hitler, and take over the leadership of a reorganized German Government which would conclude an armistic
Aug1945
Now It Can Be Told! - Eight Men to Guard the King
When this country faced invasion, after the withdrawal of the B.E.F. from France by way of Dunkirk, in 1940, prompt and serious consideration had to be given to the safety of Their Majesties and the t
Aug1945
Atomic Bomb: World's Most Terrifying Weapon
“It is now for Japan to realize in the glare of the first atomic bomb which has smitten her”, declared Mr. Churchill in a memorandum issued from 10, Downing St., on August 6, 1945, “what the consequen
Aug1945
I Was There! - We Dropped the First Atomic Bomb On Japan
Two men in the Super-Fort which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 – Col. P. W. Tibbets, the pilot (awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal immediately he returned from the raid), a
Aug1945
I Was There! - I Saw the Glider Pilot Survivors on Parade
Commemorating their fallen comrades, at Stedham, near Midhurst, on July 29, 1945, survivors of the Glider Pilot Regiment remembered that two out of three of the Regiment's troops were missing or dead.
Full index of this magazine
- Russia Smashes In to End the War With Japan
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- Thoughts on the Peace of Potsdam
- Now It Can Be Told! - How Royal Marines Hacked a Base From Jungle
- Now It Can Be Told! - Goebbels Tried to Make Peace Terms
- Now It Can Be Told! - Eight Men to Guard the King
- San Francisco Background to World-Wide Peace
- Views & Reviews
- Atomic Bomb: World's Most Terrifying Weapon
- I Was There! - We Dropped the First Atomic Bomb On Japan
- I Was There! - I Saw the Glider Pilot Survivors on Parade
- I Was There! - Toil and Trouble I Saw in the 'New' Germany
- I Was There! - We Christened Our Isle with Salts and Rum
- I Was There! - Western Desert Memory of the 8th Army Men
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
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