November 1, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Featuring:
A Man in a Million
He was a peace-loving family man who wore the Commando’s Green Beret and earned the nation’s highest award for battlefield bravery. In the first of a new series of articles celebrating acts of outstanding wartime courage. Steve Snelling tells the story of “Doc Harden”, the only medic to win the Victoria Cross during the Second World War.
Typhoons over Normandy
Ken Wright examines the actions of Typhoons and other fighters during the Battle of the Falaise Gap.
X-Craft attack on Saigon, 1945
In a Britain at War Magazine exclusive, one XE-craft veteran recalls Operation Sabre.
Retracing the Cockleshell Heroes
A group of explorers follow the route taken by the group of men who undertook Operation Frankton in 1942.
and much more!
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