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T
HROUGHOUT HISTORY, and certainly ever since the First World War, Britain’s involvement as a military power in campaigns
and operations across the Middle East have mostly been beset with controversy. Even as this issue of Britain at War was being
put together, so the RAF were being called upon to carry out limited air strikes on a target in Syria. Inevitably, it was a decision
that has also led to controversy.
This month, Britain at War’s Assistant Editor, John Ash, has assembled a fascinating account of the parachute assault at El Gamil during
the Suez Crisis – one of the most controversial of conflicts in the Middle East in which Britain has found herself involved. Our regular
contributor, Andrew Thomas, also takes a look at operations during that conflict carried out by the Westland Wyvern, an aircraft which
also features on our front cover.
Of course, Suez was an event which many historians consider to have signalled the end of Britain’s role as a major world power. Either
way, and notwithstanding that fact, Britain has continued to wield a relatively powerful military presence in the region - right up until the
present day.
Whatever the controversies, though, it must be recognised that Britain’s fighting forces have always carried out the roles demanded of
them by British Governments of the day with consummate skill, professionalism and courage. Setting aside any political arguments, or
any ‘rights’ or ‘wrongs’, we can appropriately mark and remember the engagement of
Britain’s military in such conflicts over the last 100 years and put
into historical context the part played by all three of the
armed services.
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
EDITORIAL
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FEATURES
24 Wyverns Over The Canal
As part of this month’s Suez ‘theme’, Andrew Thomas examines
the role of the Fleet Air Arm’s Westland Wyvern strike aircraft
during what became the ill-fated Suez campaign of 1956, which
saw the aircraft’s brief and only use in action.
Charlie Hoey was twice a hero of bitter fighting in Burma during
the Second World War, but his crowning achievement was a raid
which was designed to help break the deadlock in the ‘Battle of
The Admin Box’. Steve Snelling chronicles this little-known saga
of courage which earned Hoey the VC.
48 To Get A Butcher Bird
34 Double Hero Of The Arakan
When the Luftwaffe brought into service its Focke-Wulf 190 fighter,
the RAF’s worst fears were realised with the new aircraft outclassing
everything then in British service. Andy Saunders explains how a plan
to seize a specimen aircraft in a commando raid was nipped in the
bud when a Luftwaffe pilot accidentally landed one in Britain.
The joint Anglo-French campaign of 1956 to seize control of the Suez
Canal was a military success but a dismal political failure, as John Ash
explains in this incredible account of the mass parachute drop by 3
Para at El Gamil in a brilliantly planned and well executed operation.
56 Leap Into Fire
Contents
ISSUE 134
JUNE 2018
24 Wyverns Over Suez
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34 Charlie Hoey VC
56 Suez Crisis Para Drop
82 Scourge Of The Senussi
Editor’s Choice
The Imperial Camel Corps of the First World War is a force
much overlooked in the wider and often 'Western Front
focussed' narrative of that war. Stuart Hadaway redresses
that imbalance by taking us through a fascinating photo
album which belonged to an ICC officer.
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88 Spitfire Theft'
John Nichol’s tale of RAF engineering officer, ‘Greggs’ Farish, who
was not a qualified pilot but stole a Spitfire to fly to the aid of
another airman stranded on an airfield under enemy fire is truly
remarkable. Farish was Court Martialed for his wild act of bravado.
REGULARS
6 News
News, restorations, discoveries and events from around the World.
44 Image Of War
46 Fieldpost
Royal Navy sailors prepare a torpedo aboard HMS
Vanoc
in Liverpool
during 1941.
Reader’s letters, views and feedback.
76 Real To Reel
Phil Jarman reviews the wartime film ‘Millions Like Us’ which
portrayed the lives of an ordinary family caught up in the war.
80 Recon Report
Our monthly review of new books and products includes the ‘Book
of The Month’, a day-by-day history of the RAF’s first 100 years.
98 RAF 100 Image
Our look at the RAF's 100 years of history reaches the 1950s with an
image of three Mosquito aircraft patrolling the Suez Canal.
101 Militaria Collecting
Mark Khan takes a look at First World War military postcards.
106 First World War Diary
COVER STORY
Our monthly analysis follows the progress of the Great War, looking
at the situation as it existed 100 years ago during June 1918.
A Wyvern S.4 of 830 Royal Naval Air
Squadron, WN336, dives on its target,
its bomb dropped, cannons blazing. The
capable strike aircraft conducted several
preparatory strikes ahead of ground
operations during the Suez Crisis, and
later supported 3
rd
Parachute Battalion
as they took El Gamil, in particular as
they advanced on the nearby Coastguard
barracks, attacking the reinforced structure
with bombs and rockets.
(ARTWORK BY ANTONIS KARIDIS)
108 Great War Gallantry
112 Image Of War
Our look at the awards listed in the London Gazette reaches June
1918 and includes Lord Ashcroft’s regular ‘Hero of the Month’.
❅
We feature Tornado aircraft taking off for the attack on Syrian
chemical weapons targets during April 2018.
114 First World War in Objects
This month, a look at a poignant object in the form of a battered and
battle-scarred cocoa tin which belonged to a casualty of the Great
War and almost tells its own sad tale.
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