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Volume 1 - No. 7 - October 28, 1939

British Submarine's Gallant Fight for Life

Oct1939

British Submarine's Gallant Fight for Life

One of the most gripping stories of the Navy in wartime is that which tells of the escape of a British submarine from the enemy patrols which hunted it from dawn to dusk. We retell it here in the word

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I Was There! - Bullets Whistled Past My Parachute

Oct1939

I Was There! - Bullets Whistled Past My Parachute

This thrilling account of a three-to-one air fight over the Siegfried Line was told to "Eye-Witness" by a gunner of the R.A.F. who saved himself by parachute when his machine was brought down in flame

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The Crooked Cross

Oct1939

The Crooked Cross

This is the time of our testing; Now, while his words still run Hither and thither, unresting: "Grant but my victory won, Grant but my new battle-stations - These lands were I ravaged and slew -

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Poland Under the Heel of the Conqueror
  • 'A Very Curious War' in the West
  • If It's Contraband It Won't Get to Germany
  • Getting a Stranglehold on Nazi Commerce
  • With the Destroyers on Night Watch
  • British Submarine's Gallant Fight for Life
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • 'Wats' Carry on the Tradition of the 'Waacs'
  • Words That Hitler Has Eaten
  • Mussolini Plays a Neutral Hand
  • Cartoon Commentary on the Conflict
  • There Pictures Spell A.R.P.
  • Turkey Guards the Black Sea
  • They Fight Hitler Inside Germany
  • I Was There! - Bullets Whistled Past My Parachute
  • I Was There! - We Were Put Ashore by a U-Boat
  • I Was There! - We Flew From Warsaw in Makeshift 'Planes
  • I Was There! - The Nazi 'Planes were Joy-Riding
  • I Was There! - I Saw a Bomber Attack a U-Boat
  • Russia's New Footholds in the Baltic
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Crooked Cross
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War