Volume 8 - No. 200 - February 16, 1945
Feb1945
I Was There! - On this Tiny Island of Peleliu 17,000 Died
The weird story of Peleliu got lost in the excitement of our landing in the Philippines, but the island saw the toughest fighting of the Pacific war. The Americans, who landed on Sept. 14, 1944, so fa
Feb1945
I Was There! - I Kicked My Captor Crashing Down a Hillside
Leaving the rest of his troop just as dusk was falling, to look at a tank which had been in difficulties during a battle the previous day, Capt. Law, a Tank Officer from Canada serving with a famous B
Feb1945
Rocket-Showers Shatter Mindoro Defences
Intense Bombardment by Rocket-Firing Craft preceded the successful storming by U.S. troops under Gen. Walter Kreuger of Japanese-held Mindoro, one of the larger Philippine islands on December 15, 19
Full index of this magazine
- The Battle Fronts
- The War at Sea
- How Master-Bombers Control the Aerial Fleets
- Channel Islanders Look Daily for Deliverance
- Views & Reviews
- Little-Known Regions to be Wrested from Japan
- Premier Ranges War Fronts in Confident Review
- I Was There! - I Talked to the People of Stricken Warsaw
- I Was There! - On this Tiny Island of Peleliu 17,000 Died
- I Was There! - I Kicked My Captor Crashing Down a Hillside
- I Was There! - When the Earth Was Burning at Mandalay
- Our Diary of the War
- The War in the Air
- Editor's Postscript
- Rocket-Showers Shatter Mindoro Defences
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