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FEATURES NO SURVIVORS German Zeppelin crews only had a fifty-fifty chance of survival on each mission, with two out of every five airships being shot down in flames. The first and last mission of L-19 is just one early example. He did, however, explains Kendall McDonald in No Survivors, have one success on that mission when he was the commander of the only German airship ever to bomb and sink a ship at sea! LANCS STATESIDE On 25 August 1942 Ernest George Scutt reported to Warrington to begin his service as a Flight Engineer. Little could he have imagined that four year's later - four years in which he participated on raids to cities such as Hamburg and Berlin - he would find himself operating, in Lancaster's of No.35 Squadron, in the skies over the United States of America. SPECTATORS IN HELL It was November 1947 when a small group of eight British veterans arrived at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. These men were the "representatives" of those British Prisoners of War that had been incarcerated at camp E715 - a PoW camp that, to all intents and purposes, was a part of the infamous Auschwitz complex. In Spectators in Hell, their incredible story is revealed. 'BLUE ON ... STILL MISSING' Andy Saunders reports on the sad, yet fascinating, saga of a Battle of Britain pilot missing since 15 October 1940. REGULARS CAMERA AT WAR A selection of photographs of captured Axis equipment taken during the North African campaign. IMAGE OF WAR October 1944: Explosive Propaganda. A PIECE OF HISTORY This month's Piece of History is a moving letter that details a little the final days of a member of the Merchant Navy who died after the S.S. Avila Star, a Blue Star liner, was torpedoed and sunk near the Azores.
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