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Volume 5 - No. 124 - March 20, 1942

Our Parachutists Led the Way at Bruneval

Mar1942

Our Parachutists Led the Way at Bruneval

Wing-Com. Pickard, D.S.O., D.F.C., the leader of the R.A.F. carrying force of bombers which took part in the raid, examines a captured German steel helmet. Photos, British Official: Crown Copyright.

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I Was There! - 'Inside Ten Minutes the Beach Was in Our Hands'

Mar1942

I Was There! - 'Inside Ten Minutes the Beach Was in Our Hands'

The following account of the British parachute raid on the German radio-location station at Bruneval, near Havre, was given by Reuter's Special Correspondent, who accompanied the expedition in a "comb

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