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FEATURES "PREPARE TO DITCH!" It was a navigational exercise for the crew of 282 Squadron's Vickers Warwick "B" Beer. But an encounter with enemy aircraft had caused irreparable damage to this Coastal Command aircraft. The Warwick was on its own, far out over the Atlantic, when the skipper uttered three terrible words: "Prepare to ditch". MANNING THE MAGINOT LINE Often considered to have been the most expensive mistake in military history, the Maginot Line was the most complex series of permanent fortifications ever built in Europe. Though infamous for its failure to prevent an invasion of France, what is less widely known is that, seventy years ago in 1940 a large part of the Line was garrisoned by British troops. FIRST MEN DOWN On 30 January 1940, the first list of casualties from the British Army in the Second World War was published. Robert Mitchell and Martin Mace uncover the fate of some of these men during the British Army's time in France during the Phoney War. FINDING TM-B Finding the crash site of a Second World War aircraft in a field is one thing, but no one had ever attempted to find a wreck under a public road - especially one in London. But that is exactly what one group of aviation archaeologists set out to do in their hunt for the remains of Hawker Hurricane P2725 - a fighter that gave rise to one of the most famous Battle of Britain images. Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About ... THE LOCKHEED HUDSON - a design that is often seen as one of the less glamorous or exciting aircraft of the Second World War but which, as Mark Khan reveals, served with distinction. 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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