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Volume 4 - No. 96 - July 4, 1941

I Was There! - I Saw a Marine Corporal Firing to the Last

Jul1941

I Was There! - I Saw a Marine Corporal Firing to the Last

The magnificent work of the Royal Marines in Crete earned special recognition fro General Wavell, A typical exploit was told below of Lance-Corporal Thomas Neill, who kept his Bofors gun firing to the

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Full index of this magazine

  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Greatest Event Since the Fall of France
  • Malta is an Island of Heroes - and Heroines
  • Where Cretans Fought for Hearth and Home
  • The Battle of Sollum Triangle Was a Draw
  • Stiff Resistance Fails to Save Damascus
  • Mr. Churchill on the Invasion of Russia
  • Hitler Takes the Road to Moscow
  • Our Diary of the War
  • 'None May Touch Me with Impunity' Their Motto
  • Blow & Counter-Blow in the Grim Atlantic Battle
  • I Was There! - Our Air Defences in Malta are Pretty Good
  • I Was There! - We Escorted King George over the Cretan Hills
  • I Was There! - I Saw a Marine Corporal Firing to the Last
  • I Was There! - How I Got Mother and Child Out of the Ruins
  • The Editor's Postscript