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Tiger Tank Veterans Remember

Fischer, 1943. SURVIVING GERMANS who fought in the legendary...

HMHS Anglia And The Live Bait Squadron Given Legal Protection

The Bishop of Rochester at the drum Head ceremony commemorating...

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Mercantile Marine Great War Anomaly

Dear Sir, In your November 2016 edition you highlighted how stringencies...

Occupation: Did German Commandos Strike RAF Ventnor?

Britain at War explores how commando forces might have helped facilitate a successful German invasion and how, it is alleged, one such raid in 1943 successfully made it to British shores.

U-Boat Images Released By Historic England

BRIEFING ROOM Jack Casement took this picture of UB-106...

THE CROYDON RAID

Illustration Piotr Forkasiewicz

The attack on Croydon aerodrome during August 1940 was a raid...

Illustration Piotr Forkasiewicz

Commander Loftus William Jones

LORD ASHCROFT’S “HERO OF THE MONTH” HMS...

Paul Nash And The Windsor Messerschmitt

Dear Sir - I was fascinated in your two articles featuring the...

Last Battle Of Britain Kiwi

THE LAST surviving New Zealander to have earned the Battle of...

PLACES TO VISIT

VC10 Open Day, Dunsfold Aerodrome, 11 March Climb aboard VC10...

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MILITARY COLLECTABLES

’Battle of Britain’ Film Collectables The Iconic British...

Silvertown Explosion: Marked 100 Years On

Forgotten Stories Published to Commemorate Event ...

IMAGE OF WAR

TOMMY BEATS THE HUN The Somme, France, Autumn 1918 In this...

THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN OBJECTS

COMMEMORATIVE PAPER HANDKERCHIEF A portrait of Field...

THE MEMORIAL TO SUBMARINERS

To coincide with the release of Casement’s images, Historic...

HMS Vanguard Wreck Surveyed Ahead of Loss Centenary

THE WRECK of HMS Vanguard has been surveyed ahead of the centenary...

SUPERHUMAN BRAVERY

Steve Snelling

Hailed as the ‘greatest raid of all’, the combined naval...

Steve Snelling

IMAGE OF WAR

IF WAR SHOULD COME RAF Tengah, Singapore, 1963 Although Bomber...

Mis–Identification Of Paul Nash’s Famous ‘Hill 60’ Painting

Dear Sir - Your news feature on the Paul Nash exhibition was...

BULLETIN BOARD

A successful operation to safely remove a Second World War bomb...

Russian Carrier in Channel Transit

Type 23 Frigate, HMS St Albans, escorts the Russian guidedmissile...

Winged Chariot

Peter Lush

Vital in the execution of Operation Chariot, ‘The greatest...

Peter Lush

RECONNAISSANCE REPORT

The Britain at War team scout out the latest items of interest...

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From the Editor…

WITH MANY elements of the war otherwise going very badly for...

Stolen Dambuster Logbook – Where Is It Now?

AT A hearing in Wood Green Crown Court during January, a military...

DECISIVE DEFEAT

Shortly after 1100 on 10 December 1941, two British capital ships...