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Volume 2 - No. 22 - February 2, 1940

I Was There! - Though Neutral, the Nazis Torpedoed Us

Feb1940

I Was There! - Though Neutral, the Nazis Torpedoed Us

Despite protests by her captain that he was not carrying contraband, the 8,000-ton Dutch freighter "Arendskerk" was sunk by a German U-boat in the Bay of Biscay on January 15. The captain's story is h

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Finland Shows What Free Men Can Do
  • The Last Man to Leave the Sinking 'Grenville'
  • The Plans That Took the Wrong Turning!
  • British Bren Gun Explained in Picture Diagram
  • Scandinavia Would Like to Help Finland
  • Rumania Looks to Her Moat
  • Eyes that Pierce the Nazi Defences
  • R.A.F. Over Germany
  • Last 'Plane to Land on the Doomed 'Courageous'
  • Britain's Blockade is Germany's Nightmare
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Paris Black-Out Is Not So Very Black
  • 'Things Are Not Going So Badly After All'
  • Officers of Tomorrow Learn How To Do It
  • The Dover Patrol Are Always on the Job
  • I Was There! - I Was the Last Man on the 'Grenville'
  • I Was There! - I Carried Gun-cotton at Waltham Abbey
  • I Was There! - Waltham Abbey is Shaken by the Blast of War
  • I Was There! - How We Recued a German Airman
  • I Was There! - Though Neutral, the Nazis Torpedoed Us
  • Women of the Empire Take the 'Joystick'
  • Our Diary of the War