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EATURES THE GERMAN GREAT ESCAPE By late 1944 the PoW camps in Britain were growinig by up to 2,000 prisoners a day. Most of these men were tired of the war and happy to be out of it, but there were some, reveals Tim Lynch, who had a plan. THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE 1914 One of those soldiers in the trenches on 25 December 1914, was Bruce Bairnsfather, whose character a€ Old Billa€ became a favourite with those at home and at the front. A FEELING OF ELATION As U-534 passed through the Kattegat she was spotted and Coastal Command Liberators were despatched to find and sink her. On board one of the Liberators was Flying Officer Neville Baker. THE HARDEST DAY On 18 August 1940, a number of Dornier Do 17s undertook a lowlevel attack on Kenley. In the first in a series of articles on the raid, Andy Saunders examines the bombersa€ journey to their target. DISASTER AT STUDLAND BAY With just six weeks to go before the D-Day landings, Allied personnel launched Exercise Smash 1. As part of this, a number of Valentine DD, or floating, tanks were launched into the waters of Studland Bay, Dorset. The sea conditions that the tank crews faced were beyond that which their vehicles could handle a€ with disastrous consequences. CAUGHT ON CANVAS Two years ago Mark Laity fulfilled a long-held ambition to own an original piece of aviation art by having leading artist Mark Postlethwaite paint his tail-gunner father, Flight Sergeant Frank Laity, flying in his Lancaster during a daylight raid in 1944. Through his research he learnt much about his father and his wartime service, and so rewarding was that experience he wanted to repeat it, but this time with a painting of his grandfather, Chief Petty Officer Horace Laity DSM. a€ THE REALITIES OF WARa€ Based at RAF Lympne, on 3 September 1944 the pilots of Spitfire equipped 41 Squadron carried out three operations a€" one of which resulted in a fatal combat with enemy fighters. GUERNSEY a€ DEPTH CHARGEa€ BLOWN UP A wartime German buoyant explosive charge was discovered off St Peter Port, Guernsey in October 2013. Here, Simon Hamon details its background, as well as the subsequent operation to deal with it. LORD ASHCROFTa€ S a€ HERO OF THE MONTHa€ In the latest instalment in a series examining his a€ Hero of the Montha€ , Lord Ashcroft details the career of Major John a€ Jima€ Almonds MM & Bar, an early member of the SAS. FUREY AND THE FIREDRAKE When a torpedo tore a Royal Navy destroyer in half one December night in the midst of an Atlantic storm, it sparked a desperate battle for survival and an extraordinary rescue, writes Steve Snelling. FILMING ON THE FRONT Sent to the front to film battles close up and personal, cinematographer Geoffrey Malins captured a full REGULARS THE RAF ON THE AIR During the Second World War, RAF personnel regularly described their activities on the radio for listeners of the BBC. These broadcasts described their experiences in their own words and in effect provided the human stories behind the official communiquÃÃ
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