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eatures THE LATE ARRIVALS CLUB A total of 2,803 RAF aircrew who were shot down during the Second World War either escaped from captivity or evaded capture. Of the latter, a fair number eventually made their way back to their units on foot. For many, reveals Mark Hillier, this would ensure their membership of an informal association known as the Late Arrivals Club. BATTLE OF BRITAIN: UNDER THE BOMBS AT KENLEY In the second part in a series of articles detailing the Luftwaffe raid on Kenley on 18 August 1940, the Battle of Britaina€ s a€ Hardest Daya€ , Andy Saunders recounts the events that day as seen through the eyes of those on the ground. MOSQUITO NIGHT FIGHTER ACE Flying Officer Norman Crookes MBE, DFC & Two Bars, DFC (US) was the navigator in a Mosquito night fighter when, in the early hours of July 1944, his pilot claimed four a€ killsa€ in just twenty minutes. IN THE TRENCHES Unknown faces peer from the murky gloom of a First World War trench in a series of rare and unofficial photographs a€ images which give a glimpse of life in the Ypres Salient. WHAT A NIGHT IT WAS A young Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse was in a hospital in à taples on the night of 19/20 May 1918, when German bombers came to visit. NO WAY HOME At first it looks like a picture of a pile of unrecognisable wreckage. However, the clues to its identity a€" a 610 Squadron Spitfire shot down during a Circus operation in 1941 a€" can be found on the back of the photograph itself. MARCHING INTO GERMANY There was widespread civil unrest and the British troops did not know what kind of reception they would receive when, for the first time, they marched into Germany after the Armistice in 1918. LORD ASHCROFTa€ S a€ HERO OF THE MONTHa€ In the latest instalment in a series examining his a€ Hero of the Montha€ , Lord Ashcroft tells the story of the incredible courage of Odette Sansom GC. HARRYa€ S WAR Harold Victor Drinkwater maintained a remarkable diary during the First World War. One of the events he described was the fighting at Polderhoek ChÃÃ
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