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Volume 7 - No. 159 - July 23, 1943

Thirteen was a Lucky Number for this Halifax!

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Thirteen was a Lucky Number for this Halifax!

R.A.F. Coastal Command Halifax deals with a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay. Heading for the Atlantic when she was spotted, the enemy submarine was destroyed within three minutes. This was the 13th U-bo

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The War in the Air

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The War in the Air

After the conquest of North Africa and the capture of the Italian islands of Pantelleria, Lampedusa and Lampione in the Sicilian Narrows, a strange hush descended upon military operations over all Eur

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I Was There! - I Was One of the Nine Who Came Back

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I Was There! - I Was One of the Nine Who Came Back

The closing scene in the glorious stand of the 155th Field Battery R.A. on Feb. 26, 1943, in Tunisia, was briefly described in page 77 of THE WAR ILLUSTRATED by one of the nine survivors who got back

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