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Volume 2 - No. 24 - February 16, 1940

I Was There! - We Didn't Bother About the 'Graf Spee'

Feb1940

I Was There! - We Didn't Bother About the 'Graf Spee'

Accounts of the Battle of the River Plate by British prisoners on board the "Admiral Graf Spee" were given in page 541, but the first eye-witness stories by participants in the action were told when t

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • 'Messages from Molotov' for the Finns
  • Will Hitler Try To Bombard London?
  • Helpless Poles Caught in Hitler's Trap
  • The Allies Command the Seas and the Cash
  • Germany Wants Oil - and Wants It Badly
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Dogs of War Are in the Front Line Again
  • Peaceful Merchantmen in the War's Front Line
  • Britain's Merchant Navy Learns to Hit Back
  • 'Prodigious Efforts, Prodigious Results'
  • A.R.P. in the Empire's Distant Corners
  • I Was There! - I Saw the First Raider Down in England
  • I Was There! - We Went On a Bombing Raid To Germany
  • I Was There! - The Women 'Carry On' in Bombed Vaasa
  • I Was There! - We Didn't Bother About the 'Graf Spee'
  • I Was There! - German Bombers Gave Us No Rest
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Neither Will They Condemn
  • It Is Said That...
  • The Things My Readers Tell Me