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Volume 8 - No. 201 - March 2, 1945

H.M.S. Indefatigable

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H.M.S. Indefatigable

H.M.S. Indefatigable, Britain's newest Aircraft Carrier, was first reported in action off Sumatra on January 24 and 29, 1945, when battleships and aircraft-carriers of the British East Indies Fleet

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The War at Sea

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The War at Sea

It is a truism to say that modern warfare depends entirely upon supplies of oil being plentiful. Ships, aircraft, tanks and transport all rely for propulsion upon petroleum in a more or less refined f

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I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target

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I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target

In the great bombing raid on Singapore on Feb. 1, 1945, the 50,000-tons dry dock was sunk – for the second time. Built in Britain and towed in sections 8,000 miles to Singapore, it was sunk by us wh

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Full index of this magazine

  • The Battle Fronts
  • H.M.S. Indefatigable
  • The War at Sea
  • How India's Proud New Navy Came Into Being
  • Can Hitler Wage War Without Front Lines
  • Enemy Forces Lured to their Doom by Bluff
  • In the Wake of Our Armies Marches U.N.R.R.A.
  • Views & Reviews
  • I Was There! - Back in Manila, the Philippines Capital
  • I Was There! - Down a Mine for a Night's Work with a Bevin Boy
  • I Was There! - Singapore's Giant Floating Dock Was Our Target
  • I Was There! - They Wear as Badge the Burma Peacock
  • Our Diary of the War
  • The War in the Air
  • Editor's Postscript