I recently picked up in a local antique store’s bargain bin for $1.00 a magazine called Combat Report.
It is a British magazine and my copy is Volume 1 Number 1 November/December 1986.
Apparently the editor was a Jerry Scutts, and it was published by Target Publications of Blackheath, England.
I’d never seen this title before and wonder how long did it last? Is it still around today?
It has some great content, including Part One of an article on RAF Liberators in Burma.
Does anyone out there happen to have subsequent issues of Combat Report and perhaps therefore the following part/s of the Liberator article please?
By: Dave Homewood - 8th July 2013 at 13:20
Thanks for that Dave, so the next part of the Liberator article seemingly never happened. Sad that it was so short-lived.
By: DaveF68 - 8th July 2013 at 12:58
It seemed to suffer from erratic distribution – I quite liked it, but it folded after 4 issues
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/mags/magazine-details/combat-report-magazine.htm
The Contents link on that page is broken, but from the Internet Archive:
Volume 1 No.1 November/December 1986
Introduction; Leatherneck Air Cover – USMC PBJ Mitchells in WW2 (1 map, colour photos, serials listing); Booklist – book reviews; Airfield Focus: Gan – pictorial feature; Zapped! – RN Phantom FG.1 markings photo; Colour centrespread (3 PBJ col profiles, 2 B-25 col profiles, 1 Phantom FG.1 col profile, 6 colour scrap views); With a toolbox to Cambrai – memories of a RFC airframe fitter by Peter G Cooksley; Strategic Air Force, Burma Part 1: Background – SEAC B-25 operations (serials list); Remember your anniversaries! – list of maiden flight dates for WW2 aircraft; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews; Modeller’s Reference – Saab 105 photos; Reference Guide – Spitfire (list of books on the subject, 1 page col profiles and plan views)Volume 1 No.2 January/February 1987
Editorial; Invaders over Indo China – French AF B-26 operations; Booklist – book reviews; Letters; Reference Guide – Hurricane (list of books on the subject); Double Trouble: A look at the Twin Mustang by Paul Coggan (serials list, 1 page col drwgs); Tornado – five years in service (unit by unit survey); Steeple Mordern Strafers – 355th FG in WW2 (1 page col profiles); The Air Battle of Malta by Anton Summut (sic) (incl. airfield details); Tabletop airpower – model kit reviewsVolume 1 No.3 March/April 1987
Editorial; Cover Story: Brazil’s Catalinas; RAAF Spitfires; On Naval Duties – WW2 Fleet Air Arm photos; Letters; Thirties Album – photo feature; Videoscene – video reviews by Paul D’Orley; Boxcars Over Korea – C-119 operations (4 col profiles); USS Yorktown CV-10 The Fighting Lady – photo feature; Booklist – book reviews; ‘Triumphant We Fly’ – 381st BG in WW2 by Ron Mackay (1 col profiels, 4 col sqn insignia drwgs, serials list); The Air Battle of Malta Part 2 by Anton Sammut; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviewsVolume 1 No.4 May/June 1987
Editorial; RAF at Sharjah by Dennis West; Booklist – book reviews; Rolls-Royce – military market share remains strong; Sharper talons for the Hawk – T.1A conversion; Videoscene – video reviews by Paul D’Orley; ‘Triumphant We Fly’: The 381st Bomb Group in World War II, Part 2 by Ron Mackay (serials list); Letters; Phantoms of the 388th TFW (3 col profiles); Guardian of the Fleet: The Fairey Gannet in Royal Navy Service (4 col profiles); Middle East Gladiators – photo feature; My Short War – Luftwaffe Fw 190D pilot in March 1945 by Helmut Rix; JG 301 – a brief history; Tabletop airpower – model kit reviews; [inside back cover: RN Phantom FG.1 photo]
By: Mike J - 7th July 2013 at 09:47
Jerry Scutts passed away a couple of years back sadly.
By: Sideslip - 7th July 2013 at 09:23
I had forgotten all about this magazine. If I remember correctly I found the reading rather heavy going and only bought one or two before I gave up on it.
By: john_txic - 7th July 2013 at 08:47
It was very short lived – only 5 or 6 issues, ISTR.
Jerry was/is quite a prolific author.
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