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Volume 10 - No. 253 - March 14, 1947

How Dover's Radio Jammed German Radar

Mar1947

How Dover's Radio Jammed German Radar

From the naval point of view the success of D-Day depended to a great extent on the efficiency of R.C.M., or Radio Countermeasures, in "blinding" a watchful enemy established on the northern coast of

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His Majesty's Ships - H.M.S. Arethusa

Mar1947

His Majesty's Ships - H.M.S. Arethusa

Motto: “Swiftly Audacious.” Seventh bearer of a famous name, H.M.S. Arethusa is a cruiser of 5,220 tons, launched at Chatham in 1934. She is adopted by the City of Swansea. Her first important serv

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8th (Indian) Division

Mar1947

8th (Indian) Division

Colours: Yellow on Red Formed in the Secunderabad area in 1940, by Major-General C. O. Harvey, the Division took part in 1941 in the operations in Iraq and Persia. During 1942 the 18th Brigade was

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No. 149 Squadron

Mar1947

No. 149 Squadron

Motto: "Strength by Night" Disbanded in August 1919, the Squadron was re-formed at Mildenhall, Suffolk, in April 1937, when it was equipped with Heyford aircraft. In February 1939 it received Welli

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I Was There! - I Lent a Hand with Mighty Mulberry

Mar1947

I Was There! - I Lent a Hand with Mighty Mulberry

In the M.T.C., driving for the Ministry of Supply, Miss Gwen Croft was one of the unknown number of men and women who helped to make possible the great prefabricated harbour that was towed over to Nor

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