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IMAGE of WAR

The Ship That Sank Twice OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH Dry Dock...

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Witness to Disaster

201 SQUADRON’S PATROLLERS The crew of a Sunderland from 201...

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Z Special Unit

The elite Allied World War II guerrilla force When...

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GAS! GAS! GAS!

Austin J Ruddy

A major fear of British authorities was a Luftwaffe strike on...

Austin J Ruddy
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19 British cannon recovered in Georgia

The US Army Corps of Engineers have now found 19 guns thought...

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Forces Wives retrace route of Telemark commandos

Almost 80 years since commandos set out to destroy a German-held...

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Inside the Platinum Jubilee

THE PLATINUM JUBILEE Christopher Joll finds out why her majesty’s...

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Bentley Priory Museum

CollectionsOne of the most important buildings in the Battle...

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Sky Pirates

PIRATENEINSATZ December 1942 saw lone Luftwaffe bombers mounting...

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The Greatest Raid

Giles Whittell

St Nazaire, 1942: The Heroic Story of Operation Chariot ...

Giles Whittell
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Calls for official inquiry after French Exocet admission

Fresh revelations surrounding the supply of Exocet missiles to...

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Women war heroes honoured in new Royal Mail stamps issue

THE COLLECTION OF TEN STAMPS PRODUCED TO HONOUR WOMEN WHO SERVED...

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Mystery of the ‘Melita’

I note the photospread Malta's Mariner (BAW, May 22), which detailed...

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Tankbusters

BRITAIN’ S ANTI-TANK WEAPONSRecent events have proven the lethality...

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Scattered under the Rising Sun

THE GORDON HIGHLANDERSStewart Mitchell remembers the POWs of...

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Armoured Warfare in the British Army 1914-1939

Home to the inventors of tanks and the first army to see them...

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From the Editor

THE RIDE OF RESPECT DEPARTS GLASGOW CALLUM DICKSON/KEY The scenes...

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HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Major Frederick Henry Bradley VC, VD A SIGNED PORTRAIT...

Lord Ashcroft
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Minesweeper wreck visited 105 years after loss

THE TORPEDO GUNBOAT HMS ‘JASON’ The wreck of a British minesweeper,...

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Despatches

A unique ‘air’ VC sells for a huge sum at auction, and a...

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An Occasion for Splendour

JUBILEES PAST A staple of monarchical tradition often filled...

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Here and Everywhere

201 SQUADRON’ S PATROLLERSAs the recently re-formed 201 Squadron...

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Operation Mincemeat

Britain’s bid to dupe the Nazis takes to the silver screen...

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‘CHARLIE THE BASTARD’

WEAPONS OF WAR With nicknames such as ‘Jinx’ and ‘the Elephant...

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Jubilee Trooping rehearsals

The Household Division has been put though its paces as the 1st...

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Britain at War June 2022

The full issue in page-turning PDF format

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SINGAPORE HERO’S MEDALS SMASH GUIDE

The DCM awarded to an artilleryman who blunted a Japanese attack...

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The Mystic Marksman

FRANCIS PEGAHMAGABOWThrice-decorated Francis Pegahmagabow was...

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ACORN Down South

FALKLANDS 40Former Staff Sergeant Nick Van Der Bijl recollects...

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FROM ADEN to Ardintigh

TOM MCCLEANTom McClean is best known for rowing solo across the...