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Volume 1 - No. 5 - October 14, 1939

Battleships Beat the Bombers

Oct1939

Battleships Beat the Bombers

The first surface naval engagement of the war was a raid by Nazi warplanes on a section of Britain's Navy, on patrol in the North Sea. The Germans claimed it as a famous victory until Mr. Churchill ef

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Poland Fought On, 'Bloody But Unbowed'
  • They Stood by Poland to the End
  • Soviet Power in the Ukraine, Baltic and Poland
  • Rumania's Premier Pays The Price
  • Daladier, the Strong Man of France
  • Watch and Ward on the West
  • How the People Were Numbered
  • How Britain is Winning the U-Boat War
  • Battleships Beat the Bombers
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Mr. Briton'll See It Through
  • Nazi Gangsters Bank the 'Swag'
  • America's First Reactions to the European War
  • Sir Nevile Among the Nazis
  • Women Leaders in the Nation's Effort
  • Changes in the London Scene: Then and Now
  • There is Safety in Sandbags
  • Odd Facts About the War
  • I Was There! - I Went Across with the 'New Contemptibles'
  • I Was There! - We Were Saved by R.A.F. Flying Boats
  • I Was There! - How We Escaped From Poland
  • I Was There! - The First Rescue by Seaplane in Naval History
  • I Was There! - I Saw Fighting from a Foreign Frontier
  • There Is Still Chivalry Between Fighting Airmen
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Free Peoples Rise
  • It Is Said That...
  • Our Who's Who of the War