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Volume 2 - No. 33 - April 19, 1940

The Allies Hit Back - And Hit Hard!

Apr1940

The Allies Hit Back - And Hit Hard!

Written on the morning of April 11, when the struggle for Norway's possession was still raging furiously, this article gives an impression of what was known, reported, rumoured, or surmised, concernin

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I Was There! - My Spitfire was the First to be Shot Down

Apr1940

I Was There! - My Spitfire was the First to be Shot Down

Crippled by attack from a Spitfire, which itself came down in flames, a Heinkel was finally dispatched by the crew of a drifter. Here are first-hand stories of the incident told by the British pilot a

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Now It Was Norway's Turn for Invasion
  • The Allies Hit Back - And Hit Hard!
  • Denmark Submits to the Nazi Invader
  • Poland's Cup of Wrongs is Filled to Overflowing
  • Tightening the Blockade Into a Stranglehold
  • If War Has Not Added to London's Beauty...
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Has the U-boat Done Its Worst in the Sea War?
  • She Was Mined and Yet Not Lost to the Navy
  • New French 'Pocket' Dirigible Shown in Diagram
  • All the A.A. Men Want Is a Target!
  • The Evil Things We Fight - 3. The New Slavery
  • Egypt May Well Be Proud of Her Camel Corps
  • Britian's 'Flying Battleship' Routs the Junkers
  • I Was There! - My Escape From the 'Barnhill' Inferno
  • I Was There! - My Spitfire was the First to be Shot Down
  • I Was There! - I Visited the French Outposts By Night
  • Czechoslovakia Has an Army in France
  • They Fight in France to Liberate their Fatherland
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Soldier, 1940
  • The Things My Readers Tell Me