Britain at War June issue – 132-Page Bumper Issue

Featuring:

MISSING OF THE SOMME SPECIAL
This special section is dedicated to those who lost their lives at the Battle of the Somme and their unique stories. Including:
The Worst of the Worst
Last Letters of The Missing
For Valour
Lost Underground
Some of the Missing

“SERGEANT SMITH IS NO LONGER MISSING”
Andy Saunders tells the poignant story of the recovery of the body of Spitfi re pilot Sergeant William Smith who failed to return from a mission over France in 1942.

THE SECRET VALLEY
Hidden in a narrow valley in north-east Wales is a site which was once one of the most highly classified locations in the whole of the United Kingdom.

THE STORY OF DOROTHY O’GRADY
Detained on a restricted beach at the height of the invasion scare in August 1940, Dorothy was charged with being a spy and sentenced to death.

GROUND ATTACK
During the Falklands War, the RAF’s Harriers had to adopt traditional low-level ground attack methods which made them easy targets for the Argentine gunners – as Squadron Leader Jerry Pook found to his cost when he led an attack upon Mount Harriet.

CONTEMPT FOR DANGER
Chris Goss describes how the first of the attacks on the battleship Tirpitz to do any significant damage was that by Royal Navy X-class submarines.

DISASTER IN DOVER HARBOUR
During the afternoon of 16 September 1918, a huge blast tore through the warships moored in Dover Harbour. To prevent further explosions, one of the warships, HMS Glatton, had to be sunk by torpedo.

“WELCOME TO HELL”
When the men of the Royal Irish Regiment finally fought their way through the Taleban forces surrounding the District Centre of Musa Qal’eh in Helmand Province, they must have wondered what they had let themselves in for

and much more!

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