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Volume 4 - No. 90 - May 23, 1941

I Was There! - They Call Us 'Ancient and Tattered Airmen'

May1941

I Was There! - They Call Us 'Ancient and Tattered Airmen'

Some of the Air Transport Auxiliary pilots who ferry aircraft from factories to R.A.F. stations are women – it was on this service that Amy Johnson lost her life – and here one of them describes her w

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • At Tobruk Britain Stands at Bay
  • In These the Nazi Army Wings to War
  • The Campaign in Greece: A Factual Survey
  • Twenty Days of Fierce Fighting All the Way
  • How the Navy Got Our Men Away from Greece
  • Haile Selassie Has Come Home Again
  • First Blood in the Fight for Iraq's Oilfields
  • The British Army Gets Tougher Every Day
  • 'The Lifeline of Britain Is Threatened'
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • What War Has Brought to the Isle of Man
  • I Was There! - I Alone of British Journalists Escaped from Belgrade
  • I Was There! - How We Turned Our Plane Into a Sailing Ship
  • I Was There! - We Were Surrounded by Parachutists Near Corinth
  • I Was There! - They Call Us 'Ancient and Tattered Airmen'
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Catalina Limps Home