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Volume 9 - No. 220 - November 23, 1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Tanks That Turn Night Into Local Day

Nov1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Tanks That Turn Night Into Local Day

About three years before the war a new invention, consisting mainly of a special searchlight, was accepted by the War Office. It was later mounted into a tank turret and called, for security reasons,

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Now It Can Be Told! - Navy's Little Ships Fought 780 Actions

Nov1945

Now It Can Be Told! - Navy's Little Ships Fought 780 Actions

At last the splendid record of the Royal Navy's M.T.B.s, M.G.B.s, and M.L.s can be revealed. During the war in Europe, Coastal Forces performed the following feats; fought 780 actions with the enemy a

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Full index of this magazine

  • Aftermath in Central Europe
  • With Montgomery from D-Day to V-Day
  • What of the Merchant Navy's Future?
  • Laurels for Dover: Chief of the Cinque Ports
  • The Epic Story of Arnhem Told Afresh
  • "By Air to Battle"
  • Now It Can Be Told! - Tanks That Turn Night Into Local Day
  • Now It Can Be Told! - Psychological Warfare Dept. In Action
  • Now It Can Be Told! - Navy's Little Ships Fought 780 Actions
  • Now It Can Be Told! - Whalers That The Nazis Could Not Catch
  • I Was There! - I Saw the Navy 'Killing' Washed-Up Mines
  • I Was There! - A Commando's Farewell to His Green Beret
  • I Was There! - We Brought Dido and Her Precious Gold to Egypt
  • I Was There! - Tricked by the Royal Navy's Invisible Ships
  • How R.A.F. Learn Radar Secrets
  • Editor's Postscript