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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
Beaufighter on the Attack - Graham Pitchfork shares the stories of two members of the ANZAC Strike Wing.
Banzai Breakout - Steve Snelling recounts the actions that averted a massacre when Japanese POWs dared to escape Australia’s Cowra camp.
Breaking Bilbao’s Blockade - The volatile situations faced by the Royal Navy during Spain's devasting civil war are described by Professor Eric Grove.
Cover Story - RAF Coastal Command's ANZAC Strike Wing took part in some of the most dangerous assaults of the war, flying the celebrated Beaufighter. Two of its most prominent members told their amazing stories to Air Cdre Graham Pitchfork.
A PAIR OF 489 SQN BEAUFIGHTERS IN ACTION.
Abandoned in Siberia, Part II - Rupert Wieloch explains how 14 British soldiers imprisoned in civil war Russia got home.
Black Mud & Green Berets, Part II - Commandos fight for life in James Hoare’s gripping analysis of the defence of Hill 170.
Forgotten Airmen 84 Although thousands of miles from the front, the RAF’s Rhodesian Air Training Group still sustained many casualties. Gerry van Tonder explains.
Galway's Great - War Ace - Aviation historian Norman Franks recounts the brave deeds of the largely overlooked high-scoring Irish ace Tom Hazell.
Vice-Admiral Sir Geoffrey Blake - “The bluff of Franco's so-called blockade and his claim to the extension of territorial waters has been met"
Briefings
Oscars for War Film? - British war film 1917 has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Submarine Training 8 Tower to Close - A listed structure used to train Royal Navy submariners at Gosport is to close.
European UXOs
Disruption - We report on the discoveries of unexploded wartime bombs in Italy and Germany.
HERO of the MONTH - Wing Commander 102 Hugh Malcolm VC - Lord Ashcroft selects as this month’s hero a selfless light bomber pilot who was killed in his desperate bid, against overwhelming odds, to support ground forces.
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