Volume 3 - No. 46 - July 19, 1940
Jul1940
How France's Warships Were Saved From Hitler
Following Marshal Petain’s appeal to the Nazis for an armistice, the fate of the French Fleet became a matter of the gravest interest to Britain, now left as the only bulwark of Western civilization.
Jul1940
Over the Channel Islands Flies the German Flag!
With sorrow the British people heard the news that, following demilitarization and partial evacuation, the Channel Islands had been bombed by Nazi 'planes and then occupied by enemy detachments. Some
Jul1940
In the Front Line With Our Searchlight-Men
Travelling along the South Coast we approached at dusk searchlight stations whence one can sometimes see the German beams across the Channel. Here between 20 and 30 miles from the enemy the armed dark
Jul1940
I Was There! - I Heard the Horst Wessel Song in Jersey
A refugee from Jersey, while waiting for nightfall to escape from the island, saw Nazi troops pass within a few yards of him. Reaching England safely, he told his story to Laurence Wilkinson of the "D
Jul1940
I Was There! - Marooned For Six Days on a Breton Island
Volunteer demolition squads from the Royal Engineers helped in the destruction of French harbour works. One of these parties working at Brest had the added excitement of being marooned off the Breton
Jul1940
I Was There! - We Saw Cherbourg Wrecked By Explosion
Passengers two miles out at sea on the last ship to leave Cherbourg on June 19 saw the whole quayside fall in ruins as British Marines blew up the docks. This story of the end of the great French port
Full index of this magazine
- Jottings from the Editor's Wartime Diary
- How France's Warships Were Saved From Hitler
- Where and Why the Battle of France Was Lost
- France's Fair Face Befouled by the Nazis
- Anderson Shelters Stand Up To The Test
- Over the Channel Islands Flies the German Flag!
- The Fleet Air Arm is Quick Off the Mark
- Britain on the Offensive Against Italy
- Mussolini's 'Hard and Bloody' War Against France
- Shipping Our Enemies to Safety!
- Hitler Intensifies the Air War Against Britain
- In the Front Line With Our Searchlight-Men
- Our Searchlight on the War News
- I Was There! - I Heard the Horst Wessel Song in Jersey
- I Was There! - Marooned For Six Days on a Breton Island
- I Was There! - We 'Clouted' the German and Escaped
- I Was There! - We Saw Cherbourg Wrecked By Explosion
- 'Waste Not, Want Not' is the Motto for Wartime
- Our Diary of the War
- Echoes of the War from Far and Near
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