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Features D-DAY'S FLYING TANKS On only one occasion during the Second World War were large numbers of tanks flown into battle. That occasion was the Normandy landings of June 1944. CHARGING THE GUNS: CAVALRY IN ACTION 1914 It has been likened to the Charge of the Light Brigade. Yet the magnificent charge of the 4th Dragoon Guards, 9th Lancers and 18th Hussars in August 1914 has become little more than a footnote in history. DEATH OF A GENERAL Throughout the history of warfare, senior military officers have lost their lives during wartime. As Chris Goss narrates, that it also happened numerous times during the Second World War, one such death being that of Generaloberst Ulrich Grauert, whose aircraft was shot down in 1941. THE AMIENS RAID: THE MYTH OF THE MISSING MOSQUITO Group Captain Percy Charles Pickard DSO & Two Bars, DFC led the famous raid by Mosquitoes on Amiens prison seventy years ago this month in February 1944. He did not survive the attack. RAILWAYMAN: ONE MANa€ S JOURNEY INTO HELL Eric Lomax, whose memoirs, including his time on the Burma Railway, have recently been made into a film, found himself incarcerated in a Japan military prison for being part of a group using a concealed radio. Brutally beaten, half-starved and wracked with disease, Eric knew that unless he could find a way to get out of the prison he would die. VICTORIA CROSS GALLANTRY 1918: PRIVATE GEORGE MASTERS Private George Masters always reckoned that the number 9 was his lucky number. By a strange quirk of fate it was on 9 April 1918 that he found himself faced with unparalleled danger. SANCTUARY FROM THE TRENCHES In the First World War Dunham Massey became a hospital. Now a National Trust property, for the Great War centenary commemorations it will again become Stamford Military Hospital. LOW-LEVEL ATTACK: OBJECTIVE KENLEY In the Part 3 of his series of articles examining the attack on Kenley on 18 August 1940, Andy Saunders reveals how, with the bombing over and their work done, the Dornier Do 17s turned for home. LORD ASHCROFTa€ S a€ HERO OF THE MONTHa€ In the latest instalment in a series examining his a€ Hero of the Montha€ , Lord Ashcroft details the remarkable story of Air Vice Marshal James a€ Johnniea€ Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & 2 Bars, DFC & Bar. FROM PEERS TO PRIESTS Breaking and analyzing enemy wireless messages was of crucial importance during the First World War; it was work undertaken by a highly secret group. Jane Dismore examines the brains behind Room 40. EPIC OF RESISTANCE When a French uprising was crushed in the summer of 1944 a British liaison officer was forced to make an epic escape across the Alps. Steve Snelling charts the story of the ill-fated SOE Eucalyptus Mission. Regulars BRIEFING ROOM News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the UK. FIELDPOST Your letters. TANK TIMES The latest edition of Tank Times from the Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset. IMAGE OF WAR a€ A Bad Day at the Officea€ : intercepted by Spitfires over the North African desert, 29 September 1942. DATES THAT SHAPED THE WAR We chart some of the key moments and events that affected the United Kingdom in February 1944. RECONNAISSANCE REPORT A look at new books and products. WHAT I WOULD SAVE IN A FIRE Jenny Cousins, a Project Leader at IWM Duxford, explains to Geoff Simpson why she has chosen a journalista€ s wartime scrapbook as the object she would save. THE RAF ON THE AIR: a€ I TORPEDOED THE LÃ TZOWa€ On 12 June 1941, a Bristol Blenheim on a reconnaissance patrol spotted four or five enemy destroyers screening a much larger vessel, the heavy cruiser LÃÃ
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