Britain At War February issue – OUT NOW!

FEATURING:

Valentine’s Day Engagement
When two RAF Typhoon pilots set out on St Valentine’s Day in 1943 to provide air cover for a pair of MTBs in trouble off the French coast they encountered trouble themselves. Mark Crame tells the tragic story.

The Home Guard’s Armoured Cars
The most famous Home Guard vehicle is surely the fictional Lance Corporal Jones’ butcher’s van in ‘Dad’s Army’ but the 1940 reality was not very far from the fiction. Alexander Nicol looks at some of reality. Certainly desperate measures for desperate times!

The Silent Sound of Defeat
During the early summer of 1940 Dunkirk became a maelstrom of destruction until the last British ship had left. We look at the aftermath through the eyes of a young German officer and a remarkable set of photographs.

Without a Paddle
During the Korean War an Australian frigate, HMAS Murchison, sailed up a river on the front line, with UN troops on one bank and Communist forces on the other. John Ash describes how the vessel managed to shoot herself out of a deadly Chinese trap.

AND MUCH MORE!

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