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Warrior 2 gift reinforces Tank Museum

The Tank Museum has received Demonstration Vehicle #04, a prototype...

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Despatches

It’s been busy in the world of auctions, with medals awarded...

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Lucky escape

Casablanca, Morocco, November 1942 The destroyer HMS...

Lucky escape
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COMMANDO MARCHES ON

Famed for its gripping yarns and gung-ho heroics, Commando has...

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UK’s last Afghan effor t rescues 15,000

BRITISH SOLDIERS BOARD AN A400M DEPARTING HAMID KARZAI AIRPORT,...

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WORLD OF RUST

George Blake

MILITARIAThere aren’t many areas of collecting requiring you...

George Blake
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Six Minutes to Midnight

A gripping World War Two spy thriller, starring Eddie Izzard,...

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Inside Your Magazine

October 2021 Issue 174On Sale September 30 The Battle...

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Troubled waters

BRITISH POWSThe film version of The Bridge on the River Kwai...

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Ahead of her time

CONFLICT CORRESPONDENTShe was a duke’s daughter and called...

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Aladdin’s cave

AUCTIONSAdam Partridge Auctioneers and Valuers has built up an...

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War Thunder developer plugs Challenger leak

Gaijin Entertainment, developer of the popular online game War...

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Tornado

A HIGHLY PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF OPERATION DESERT STORM SIMON AND...

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Nelson-era medal doubles guide price

A rare Naval Gold Medal awarded to one of Admiral Lord Nelson’s...

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Pillbox postscript

Our thanks to Delwyn Griffith, who got in touch regarding our...

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From the Editor

THE BROUGH VERSUS BRISTOL RACE BY TERENCE CUNEOTERENCE CUNEOI’m...

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Unique Scots Borderers CGC goes under the hammer

CORPORAL SHAUN JARDINE AT THE RECEPTION WHERE HIS CGC WAS BESTOWED...

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THE CHAIN-SMOKING VC

KRITHIA VINEYARDFor 41 hours, an amateur thespianturned-citizen...

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RUNNING THE GAUNTLET

ACTION IN THE AEGEANCutting-edge radar technology hastened the...

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Heritage aircraft join re-formed squadron

Earlier this year, the Royal Australian Air Force reformed a...

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A cunning plan goes wrong

EYEWITNESSGunner Neville Westerman, 33 Airborne Light Regiment,...

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The (tame) wolf at the door The Swan Hunter yard, Wallsend, September...

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Flight into DANGER

HEROES OF THE SKYRAF pilots such as Hugh Verity risked their...

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Historic Trincomalee gilded and glorious

What takes seven painters, five weeks and 172 gallons of paint?...

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Disruption in Yorkshire as large UXO discovered

An unexploded bomb discovered on an East Yorkshire housing estate...

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Britain At War In Colour

Ian Carter

BY THE outbreak of war the MOI had begun to employ its own group...

Ian Carter
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Bamburgh Castle

ON THE NORTHEAST COAST OF ENGLAND, THE CASTLE HAS A FASCINATING...

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HERO of the MONTH

Lord Ashcroft

Captain Richard Phillip Carr MBE, MC In the 1963 film,...

Lord Ashcroft
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Squadron lives on beyond the Arakan

I was delighted to see the coverage of 6 Squadron, Indian Air...

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DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY AVIATION MUSEUM

CollectionsWith its ambitious plans, the sky’s the limit for...