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Features RAF FIRST DAY IN COMBAT The Royal Air Force was formed on the first day of April 1918. The events of that fi rst historic day are examined by Norman Franks. LOST BEHIND ENEMY LINES An offi cer in the Drake Battalion of the 63rd (Royal Naval) Division describes how he lost his way in No Mana€ s Land and was captured by the enemy. COLOURS FLYING She was far slower and hopelessly out-gunned, but in true Nelson fashion the Armed Merchant Cruiser Rawalpindi refused to surrender to the enemy. a€ WE ARE BUT WARRIORS FOR THE WORKING DAYa€ Mark Laity describes the creation of a unique painting depicting his father on a mission in his Avro Lancaster in December 1944. DEATH OF AN EMPRESS As Chris Goss relates, the troopship Empress of Britain became the largest British merchant ship to be sunk in the Second World War. GUERNSEYa€ S FIRST WORLD WAR GERMAN GUNS Standing in a quiet formal garden are two German fi eld howitzers. Most people may simply pass them by, unaware that they were not left over from the Occupation of the islands in the 1940s, but had been presented to Guernsey after the First World War. HEINKEL DOWN! For over seventy years, a unique set of photographs have graced Alan Williamsa€ family album. Taken in Dorset in 1940, the pictures portray a Heinkel He 111 crashed during the Battle of Britain. Here Roger Hopkins reconstructs the unforgettable September day when friend and foe came face to face. STREET FIGHTING GALLANTRY, 1945 An attempt to capture the German town of Lingen a month before the wara€ s end turned into a rescue mission spearheaded by a Wasp fl ame-throwing carrier. EYEWITNESS TO VALOUR he determination to halt Japanese troops in Burma shown by Jemadar Abdul Hafi z led to the posthumous award of the Victoria Cross for his actions on 6 April 1944. PARACHUTE MINE TRAGEDY, 1941 On 19 April 1941, a Luftwaffe bomber dropped a parachute mine on the Surrey village of South Merstham. The resulting explosion obliterated the church which stood nearby. Regulars BRIEFING ROOM News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the UK. FIELDPOST Your letters. IMAGE OF WAR 19 August 1942: In action over Dieppe. WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WINGS The Martin-Baker MB3 prototype fighter. NEW! KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH ARMY 2: The dÃÃ
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