TracesOfWar needs your help! Every euro, pound or dollar you contribute greatly supports the continuation of this website. Go to stiwot.nl and donate!

Volume 3 - No. 45 - July 12, 1940

How the Nazis Broke France's Fortress Line

Jul1940

How the Nazis Broke France's Fortress Line

From time immemorial Man has sheltered in fortresses designed to withstand a long siege and to resist the strongest weapons of the age. Though every Great War in Europe for generations past has shown

Read more

Day by Day Britain's Home Defences Grow

Jul1940

Day by Day Britain's Home Defences Grow

In his broadcast on Sunday, June 30th, Mr. Chamberlain said that the enemy might try to invade us at any moment. "If he does try," he added, "we will fight him in the air and on the sea; we will fight

Read more

Nazi Terror Reaches the Channel Islands

Jul1940

Nazi Terror Reaches the Channel Islands

On July 1st, 1940, German troops landed in the Channel Islands by air. Three days before the Home Office had announced that the Islands had been demilitarized, but, notwithstanding, Jersey and Guernse

Read more

I Was There! - How We Bombed the Maastricht Bridges

Jul1940

I Was There! - How We Bombed the Maastricht Bridges

In earlier pages of "The War Illustrated" (Vol. 2 p.p. 574, 581, 631, and 654) reference has been made to the magnificent feat of an R.A.F. Bomber Squadron which blew up the bridges at Maastricht – a

Read more

1904-1940

Jul1940

1904-1940

Was I not faithful to you from the first? When have I ever failed you since my youth? I loved without illusion, knew the worst, But felt the best was nearer to the truth. You were indulgent too

Read more

Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • On France Descends the Silence of Defeat
  • Why the German Army Won in France
  • On Vimy's Hill Sacred to Canada Hitler Triumphs
  • How the Nazis Broke France's Fortress Line
  • There Was Little Left in St. Malo for the Nazis
  • Poles Stand Unyielding By Britain's Side
  • What of the French Colonial Empire?
  • The British Navy Moved - and Hilter Lost a Fleet
  • From 'Down Under' to the Defence of the Homeland
  • How Great Was France - How Low Is She Fallen Now!
  • Our Munitions are 'Vital to the Nation & the World'
  • 'Go To It!' is the Munition Workers' Slogan
  • 'If the Invader Comes' - How He Will be Repulsed
  • Day by Day Britain's Home Defences Grow
  • Nazi Terror Reaches the Channel Islands
  • Our Searchlight on the War News
  • Scared by Stalin, Carol Turns to Hitler
  • I Was There! - I Was in Charge of 450 French Wounded
  • I Was There! - How We Bombed the Maastricht Bridges
  • I Was There! - I Served as a Woman in the French Army
  • What Twelve Days of Air War Cost Germany
  • Our Diary of the War
  • 1904-1940
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near