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Volume 4 - No. 76 - February 14, 1941

I Was There! - My Nightmare Climb Near Tepelini

Feb1941

I Was There! - My Nightmare Climb Near Tepelini

Difficulties of terrain and weather in the mountainous Greek front line above Tepelini would seem to make fighting almost impossible. The feats performed daily by muleteers and ambulance parties servi

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I Was There! - Greek Carried Me over the Mountains

Feb1941

I Was There! - Greek Carried Me over the Mountains

Onlookers who saw a British bomber in flames over the Italian lines in Southern Albania gave up the entire crew as lost, but twelve days later the pilot and observer turned up at their base. Here we g

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • Derna: Another Step in Wavell's Victory March
  • Now the War is Carried into Eritrea
  • The Nazis Think the Invasion Will Be Like This
  • Many Fine New Ships for the Royal Navy
  • Canada 'Full Out' in the Air
  • 'Rat-Catching Terriers' on the U-Boat Trail
  • Their Bravery Has Not Gone Unrecognized
  • At Dead of Night the Greeks Charged to Victory
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • I Was There! - We Flew Round Padua's Spires & Chimneys
  • I Was There! - Nineteen of My Men Died of Exposure
  • I Was There! - My Nightmare Climb Near Tepelini
  • I Was There! - Greek Carried Me over the Mountains
  • The Belgians Here are a 'Happy Band of Brothers'
  • Our Diary of the War
  • On the Way Back from Bombing Tobruk
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near