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Volume 4 - No. 74 - January 31, 1941

I Was There! - Every Gun in the 'Illustrious' Roared

Jan1941

I Was There! - Every Gun in the 'Illustrious' Roared

Here is a second eye-witness account of the Sicilian Channel battle – this time by a special correspondent of Reuters on board the aircraft-carrier "Illustrious". The "Illustrious" was one of the main

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Full index of this magazine

  • Jottings From the Editor's Wartime Diary
  • As Tobruk Falls, Mussolini's Empire Crumbles
  • At Jarabub an Italian Army Is In Peril
  • Abyssinia on the Verge of Revolt
  • One Way or Another Our Airmen Keep Warm
  • The Air Frontier May Soon Be Over Germany
  • The Greeks Tore the 'Tuscam Wolves' to Shreds
  • 'They're Prisoners-of-War in Germany'
  • Norway's Sons are Fighting at the Side of Ours
  • Waiting for the Invader at 'Hell Fire Corner'
  • I Was There! - We Saw the Battle of the Sicilian Channel
  • I Was There! - Every Gun in the 'Illustrious' Roared
  • New Appointments on the Home Front
  • Our Searchlight on the War
  • Our Diary of the War
  • Items of War Interest from Far and Near