Britain At War December Issue – OUT NOW!

FEATURING:

LEFT BEHIND
With the withdrawal from Dunkirk in May 1940 vast quantities of materiel were left behind in France, including numbers of shot down or wrecked RAF aircraft. These included unserviceable aircraft abandoned on former RAF airfields, many having been set alight before the withdrawal. When the Germans occupied the territory and found these wrecked aircraft they often became attractive subjects to photograph.

HE MUST HAVE GOT OUT!
A Spitfire pilot shot down at the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 had already had to bale-out and crash-land on two previous occasions. Then, he had been lucky to survive. However, over East Sussex on the penultimate day of the battle there was no such fortunate outcome when he was once again shot down. His close
friend on the squadron was distraught at his loss, but set out to avenge his pal’s death and to honour the pact they had both made in the event of the other being killed.

BRITAIN UNDER THE JACKBOOT
On 30 June 1940 a Luftwaffe aircraft landed at Guernsey’s airfield and quickly established that there were no defences. The scene was thus set for the invasion of the Channel Islands in ‘Operation Green Arrow’ which marked the beginning of five long and exceptionally hard years of occupation.

GARDEN OF EDEN
Reputedly built on the site of the Garden of Eden, Qurna in 1914 was a very long way from paradise. In fact, it became a hell on earth. A key battleground in the struggle to secure Britain’s Middle East oil interests, and in a region not unfamiliar to allied fighting troops in more recent years, the battle was ugly and determined and also saw remarkable bravery by three Indian sappers who, with a length of heavy wire cable, swam to the rescue and secured the means by
which the battle could have a successful outcome.

AND MUCH MORE!

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