Volume 3 - No. 49 - August 9, 1940
Aug1940
This Battle of Dover Was Won in the Sky
What was described as the R.A.F.'s finest triumph was won over. Dover Harbour on July 29, when an attack by wave after wave of Junkers and Messerschmitts was blown to pieces without being able to caus
Aug1940
I Was There! - We Swam in Oil When 'Lancastria' Sank
None of the sea disasters of the war is likely to surpass in human suffering the wreck of the troopship "Lancastria", which was bombed and sunk in St. Nazaire harbour on June 17. Here are some survivo
Aug1940
The Army Wins Its First Victoria Crosses
It is a tragic fact that of the five Victoria Crosses as yet won during this war all but one were posthumously awarded. Of them one went to the Royal Navy and two to the Royal Air Force (see Vol. II,
Aug1940
H.M. Submarine Tetrarch Was Not Sunk
An unhappy mis-typing that escaped the eyes of editorial and printers' readers caused the extraordinary statement in this page in No. 47, dated July 26, that the "Tetrarch" had been sunk. The intentio
Full index of this magazine
- Jottings From the Editor's Wartime Diary
- This Is the Europe Fuehrer Adolf Wants to Build
- These Were the Last Defenders of Arras
- Air Blockade Is a Game That Two Can Play
- This Battle of Dover Was Won in the Sky
- Italy's Navy Is Not Spoiling for a Fight
- Abyssinia May Soon Be Aflame With Revolt
- 'Off the Map' but the Village Has Gone to War
- Waitresses and Maids Make Big Bombers Now
- Hope Is a Luxury in the Nazi Prison Camps
- Britain Still Has Brave and Faithful Allies
- Our Searchlight on the War News
- I Was There! - I Was One of the Lucky Ones of the 51st
- I Was There! - We Made Sure the Captain Jumped, Too
- I Was There! - We Swam in Oil When 'Lancastria' Sank
- British Personalities of the War
- The Army Wins Its First Victoria Crosses
- Our Diary of the War
- Items of War Interest from Far and Near
- H.M. Submarine Tetrarch Was Not Sunk
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