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FEATURES ALL IN A DAY'S WORK The first week of November 1940 was marred by bad weather. This and a decline in Luftwaffe activities meant, for 249 Squadron at least, a reduction in the level of flying operations. But, that was about to change. Indeed, for Pilot Officer Tom Neil, Thursday, 7 November 1940, would turn out to be a day that he would remember for the rest of his life. AGAINST ALL ODDS Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. Yet with barely a quarter of the men designated for the task and without the equipment they needed, the men of the Parachute Regiment stormed the great German battery which dominated the Normandy invasion area of Sword Beach. John Grehan tells the story of the attack upon the guns of Merville on D-Day. BEGINNER'S LUCK On 20 January 1943, the Luftwaffe carried out its largest and most audacious daylight 'tip and run' attack against the United Kingdom when twenty-eight Focke Wulf Fw 190 fighter-bombers attacked London. It is a day that is remembered, writes Chris Goss, for the fact that, tragically, thirty-eight children, the youngest aged 5, the oldest 15, and six teachers were killed and many more injured when the Sandhurst Road School, Catford, suffered a direct hit by one of the bombs. FIRST TO FALL On the morning of 6 June 1944, the greatest amphibious and aerial assault in history unfolded across the flat, open beaches of Normandy. On that most memorable of days, D-Day, more than 2,500 men lost their lives and the first of those to be killed by enemy fire was the officer leading the assault upon Pegasus Bridge. John Grehan tells the story of those first few moments of Operation Overlord. REGULARS DATAFILE In this month's Datafile, Mark Khan looks at the 3-inch Mortar. Introduced in 1936 as a replacement for the Stokes Mortar, it continued in service until the late 1960s when it was replaced with the 81mm Mortar. Page 55 SURVIVORS: BATTLE OF BRITAIN HAWKER HURRICANES Alongside the Supermarine Spitfire, the Hawker Hurricane shouldered the lion's share of the nation's defence during the Battle of Britain. Continuing our 'Survivors' series, we investigate those examples of this aircraft that saw action during the hectic summer of 1940. TEN THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ... MARSHAL OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE HUGH MONTAGUE TRENCHARD. Despite the fact that in his formative years Trenchard struggled academically, failing many examinations and only just succeeding in meeting the minimum standard for commissioned service in the British Army, he would go to become the man described as the "Father of the Royal Air Force".
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