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FEATURES SUNDERLAND STRIKE Through a fascinating series of wartime images Martin Mace investigates the sinking of U-106 - a German Type IXB U-boat, which was sunk by a pair of RAF Coastal Command Short Sunderland flying boats on 2 August 1943. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE It was one of the most mysterious incidents of the Falklands War; one which has, for more than a quarter of a century, been shrouded in secrecy. But now, explains Steven Taylor in MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, the truth about Operation Plum Duff, one of the most extraordinary SAS missions attempted since the end of the Second World War, has finally been revealed. THE DAY IT NEARLY HAPPENED The summer of 1940 was a tense time. As the RAF desperately fought the Luftwaffe in the skies over the United Kingdom, those on the ground waited with mounting apprehension; the German invasion was expected at any moment. THE END OF AN ERA Bill Gill reports on the passing of the last two surviving First World War veterans in the United Kingdom: Henry Allingham and Harry Patch. AN UNGENTLEMANLY WAY TO FIGHT A WAR War has always provided a stimulus to technological development, and the First World War was no different. It was a war which, writes Tim Jones, would see the wide scale use of increasingly deadly and malicious types of explosives in the form of booby traps, mines, and delayed-action devices. REGULARS DATAFILE During the building of the first ever tank, 'Little Willie', a revised set of War Office requirements led to the design of the Mk.I, and in effect the subsequent Mks. II and III, heavy tanks. Ten Things You Probably Didn't Know About ... GROUP CAPTAIN GEOFFREY LEONARD CHESHIRE, Baron Cheshire of Woodhall, VC, OM, DSO and Two Bars, DFC, was, writes Bill Gill, one of the RAF's most famous, and decorated, wartime bomber pilots.
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