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Volume 7 - No. 170 - December 24, 1943

I Was There! - I Left My Pots and Pans and Downed a Bomber!

Dec1943

I Was There! - I Left My Pots and Pans and Downed a Bomber!

Ship's cook, Petty Officer J. H. Hubbard, of the cruiser Aurora on service in the Mediterranean, had already been mentioned in dispatches when he achieved the further distinction of shooting down a Ge

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • The War at Sea
  • Brains Behind Our Big Ships' Roaring Guns
  • Tough 'Recces' Race Ahead As We Invade
  • Frontiers of the Future: More Balkan Problems!
  • Views & Reviews
  • Specialist Flyers Dare Death for the R.A.F.
  • I Was There! - We Stoked Berlin's Still Smouldering Fires
  • I Was There! - I Left My Pots and Pans and Downed a Bomber!
  • I Was There! - They Bombed Us, But We Landed Our Ammunition
  • I Was There! - I Saw the Japanese Annihilated on Betio Island
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The War in the Air
  • Editor's Postscript