Britain at War February issue – OUT NOW

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THE AMIENS RAID: THE MYTH OF THE MISSING MOSQUITO
Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard DSO & Two Bars, DFC led the famous raid by Mosquitoes on Amiens prison seventy years ago this month in February 1944. He did not survive the attack.

D-DAY’S FLYING TANKS
On only one occasion during the Second World War were large numbers of tanks flown into battle. That occasion was the Normandy landings of June 1944.

CHARGING THE GUNS: CAVALRY IN ACTION 1914
It has been likened to the Charge of the Light Brigade. Yet the magnificent charge of the 4th Dragoon Guards, 9th Lancers and 18th Hussars in August 1914 has become little more than a footnote in history.

DEATH OF A GENERAL
Throughout the history of warfare, senior military officers have lost their lives during wartime. As Chris Goss narrates, that it also happened numerous times during the Second World War, one such death being that of Generaloberst Ulrich Grauert, whose aircraft was shot down in 1941.

EPIC OF RESISTANCE
When a French uprising was crushed in the summer of 1944 a British liaison officer was forced to make an epic escape across the Alps. Steve Snelling charts the story of the ill-fated SOE Eucalyptus Mission.

WHAT I WOULD SAVE IN A FIRE
Jenny Cousins, a Project Leader at IWM Duxford, explains to Geoff Simpson why she has chosen a journalist’s wartime scrapbook as the object she would save.

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