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Volume 4 - No. 86 - April 25, 1941

How Hitler Struck at Greece and Yugoslavia

Apr1941

How Hitler Struck at Greece and Yugoslavia

Beyond a doubt Hitler hoped, perhaps expected, that Greece and Yugoslavia would succumb to his threats, just as Bulgaria and Rumania had done. But the two countries, small and weak though they are com

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South Africans Won the Race to Addis Ababa

Apr1941

South Africans Won the Race to Addis Ababa

With dramatic suddenness, Addis Ababa, Haile Selassie's former capital and since 1936 the capital of the Italian Empire in East Africa, capitulated to the British on April 5. The story of its fall is

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • How Hitler Struck at Greece and Yugoslavia
  • Salonika Fell After Three Days of War
  • The Marvel of Cape Matapan
  • 'Planes and Ships in Victorious Combination
  • How the Navies Grappled in the Dark
  • Vivid Pen-Pictures of the Great Battle
  • Now It Was the Germans Who Took Benghazi
  • South Africans Won the Race to Addis Ababa
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • I Was There! - We Learned a Lot on Our Iceland Trip
  • I Was There! - I Was A Nazi Parachute Trooper
  • I Was There! - We Are Standing Up to the Raids in Malta
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Our War Gazetteer: Yugoslavia
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near