Britain at War February issue – OUT NOW

Featuring:

HEINKEL DOWN!
For over seventy years, a unique set of photographs have graced Alan Williams’ family album. Taken in Dorset in 1940, the pictures portray a Heinkel He 111 crashed during the Battle of Britain. Here Roger Hopkins reconstructs the unforgettable September day when friend and foe came face to face.

GUERNSEY’S FIRST WORLD WAR GERMAN GUNS
Standing in a quiet formal garden are two German fi eld howitzers. Most people may simply pass them by, unaware that they were not left over from the Occupation of the islands in the 1940s, but had been presented to Guernsey after the First World War.

RAF FIRST DAY IN COMBAT
The Royal Air Force was formed on the first day of April 1918. The events of that first historic day are examined by Norman Franks.

PARACHUTE MINE TRAGEDY, 1941
On 19 April 1941, a Luftwaffe bomber dropped a parachute mine on the Surrey village of South Merstham. The resulting explosion obliterated the church which stood nearby.

and much more!

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