Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
Voices of Hope - Britain At War pays tribute to the late Dame Vera Lynn, and her fellow entertainers, whose morale-boosting war work offered hope and inspired the masses.
Stars in Battledress - Entertaining the troops is still important for morale. Michael Haskew highlights celebrities past and present who have played in war zones.
The Long Run of Navy Rum - The Royal Navy ended the daily rum ration 50 years ago. Adam Headley explores the run of this curiously British maritime tradition.
Cover Story - Dame Vera Lynn helped both frontline troops and those on the home front to endure some of Britain’s darkest days.
Valour in Warzone - AWM historian Michael- Kelly speaks to David Munday MM about his hard-fighting part in beating a vicious ambush sprung from Vietnams jungle.
VJ Day 75: Victory in the East - Prof Peter Caddick-Adams profiles the last 100 days leading up to VJ Day and the end of the war in the Pacific.
VJ Day 75: Liberated from Hell - For those captured by the Japanese, the end of the war meant freedom from squalor, maltreatment and cruelty, as Steve Snelling writes.
Echoes of the Past - In 1943, several British villages were forcibly evacuated to make way for the army, with residents never able to return. Dene Bebbington explains why.
Capturing Himmler - Bill Steadman of the Military Intelligence Museum details how the shrewd eye of British troops foiled the escape of one of the most wanted Nazi despots.
Briefings:
Uncertainty for Historic Warship - Concern for the future of the unique destroyer HMS Bristol increases.
New Look for Marines - A new Royal Marine uniform links its changing role to its fighting heritage.
HMS Hoods Last Sailors - Two men thought to be the last surviving sailors to have served on the battlecruiser have died.
Hero of the Month:
Flt Lt Andrew Proctor VC - Lord Ashcroft profiles a highly decorated Great War aviator whose astonishing run of victories was brought to an end by a serious wound.
Regulars:
Militaria
Weapons of War
Recon Report
Image of War
Field post
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