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Volume 1 - No. 11 - November 25, 1939

I Was There! - We Found a German 'Plane on the Hill

Nov1939

I Was There! - We Found a German 'Plane on the Hill

When a German reconnaissance 'plane was brought down in the Lammermoor Hills on October 28, Mr. John K. Irvine of Long Newton Farm was on the spot within a few minutes. His graphic account of the inci

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The Shroud of Gold

Nov1939

The Shroud of Gold

All wars are fought in the spirit. Vain the trust in the mastery of steel. Like him, who makes it, this is no more than a fiction of the dust, which blows on the first wind that overtakes it. The

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings from My Wartime Diary
  • Entente Cordiale in the Maginot Line
  • Here in Their Front Line are the 'Poilus'
  • While Here Are Nazis in Their 'Westwall'
  • Finland Stands Out Against the Soviet
  • The Empire Gets into Its Stride
  • At the Heart of Britain's Air Defence
  • The War's First Air Heroes Decorated by the King
  • Threatened With War They Appealed for Peace
  • Words That History Will Remember
  • Our War Gazetteer
  • Despite the War Paris is Not So Gloomy
  • They Have Come Back to Blighty Already
  • Great Guns that Make Our Coasts Secure
  • In Wartime 'Q' is Big Business
  • 'In the End We Shall Break Their Hearts'
  • These Are the Tales the Nazis Spread About Us
  • I Was There! - Our Ships Fought Back at the U-Boats
  • I Was There! - I Commanded the Captured 'City of Flint'
  • I Was There! - I Saw Hitler's Rout at Munich
  • The Whole World Watched the Odyssey of this Ship
  • I Was There! - We Found a German 'Plane on the Hill
  • Who Was the Guy Fawkes in the Munich Cellar?
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The Shroud of Gold
  • It Is Said That...
  • Odd Facts About the War