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Volume 3 - No. 56 - September 27, 1940

I Was There! - We Were Sunk by a Nazi Q-Ship

Sep1940

I Was There! - We Were Sunk by a Nazi Q-Ship

Among the merchant ships waylaid and sunk by a disguised German raider operating off the West Indies was the 5,000-ton "King John" of Liverpool. The ship's carpenter, Mr. Burroughs, here tells how his

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings From the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • Grenadiers Would Like to Meet Nazis Again!
  • The Empire Will Fight Till Victory Be Won
  • Yet Mussolini Still Says It is 'Our Sea'
  • London Was in the Front Line of Air Battle
  • Those on Whom the Brunt of Air War Falls
  • Berlin and the Barges are Bombed Again
  • R.A.F. Strike at the Heart of Nazi Berlin
  • Ramsgate Has the World's Finest Shelters
  • Let Us Honour the Men Who Saved St. Paul's
  • Their Eyes Are Vital to R.A.F. and A.A. Guns Alike
  • Hope For France Springs Anew in Africa
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • I Was There! - We Dug for Eight Hours to Rescue a Girl
  • I Was There! - What We Saw of the Victoria Bomber
  • I Was There! - Like Soldiers My Children Stood on Deck
  • I Was There! - We Were Sunk by a Nazi Q-Ship
  • British Personalities of the War
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near