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FEATURES CASUALTIES OF WAR Precision bombing of individual targets is often perceived as a relatively recent development - a far cry fromthemassed bombing raids of the Second World War. Yet with the low-level attacks on Amiens prison and the Gestapo headquarters at Aarhus, the Mosquitoes of 140Wing had shown that they could achieve almost pin-point accuracy. Unfortunately, explains KenWright, when they bombed their next target in Copenhagen tragedy struck. THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY The war had swung decisively in favour of the Allies and the Germans had withdrawn to the Hindenburg Line and their fortifications behind the Canal du Nord. The Germans knew that if they could not stop the Allies at this point there would be little chance of victory in the west. The coming battle was one the Germans dare not lose. For the British divisions it wouldmean an attack before dawn. APACHE RESCUE Flying just ten feet above the water, and shrouded in a cloud of mist thrown up by the downdraft from their rotors, two Apache attack helicopters of 656 Squadron, Army Air Corps, swung across the Helmand River, heading towards a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan - with, writes David Cassan, four Commandos strapped to their wings! RETURN TO DUNKIRK In this seventieth anniversary year of the Dunkirk evacuations a BBC production team returned to the battlefields of northern France to look at thismuch-documented episode of British history from a different perspective - from the point of view of the archaeology of the Dunkirk beaches. The team's task was, writes Paul Reed, to help bring a fresh perspective to a familiar story. "LOOK AT THEM GO" There have been a number of live radio broadcasts which created major sensations at the time they were delivered and are still remembered today. One such broadcast, recorded live by a BBC reporter in July 1940, was a dramatic account of a combat during the Battle of Britain - but was this reality radio just a little too graphic for the stiff-upper-lipped Britons? SECRETS OF THE SUCCOTH GLEN SUPERFORTRESS On a remote Scottish hillside lie the remains of a USAF aircraft which crashed to earth, killing all the passengers and crew. But the declared ranks of those on board and the cargo they were carrying remains shrouded in mystery. James Carron examines the fate of this Cold War aircraft, a veteran of the Berlin airlift. REGULARS BRIEFING ROOM News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the UK. FIELDPOST Your letters. DEBRIEF A Piece of History, Dates That Shaped the War and much more
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