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AMAZING IMAGES OF BATTLE OF BRITAIN CRASH SITE
Pilot Officer John Curchin
BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING
MILITARY HISTORY
MONTHLY
DOGFIGHT VICTOR:
GUERNSEY’S
FIRST WORLD WAR
GERMAN GUNS
RAF FIRST DAY
IN COMBAT
April 1st, 1918
PARACHUTE MINE
TRAGEDY, 1941
Why this Village Hall has an Amazing Tale to Tell
Issue
70
FEBRUARY 2013
£4.20
STREET FIGHTING GALLANTRY, 1945
Notes from
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Life is full of chance encounters. Some have little or no lasting effect; others
can be of enormous consequence. All are what we make of them. One of
those more intriguing encounters happened just a few weeks ago and it led to
a fascinating journey back into the past.
During a conversation in the office with a friend and contributor to the
magazine, mention was made of a building that was constructed in the Surrey
village of South Merstham during the Second World War by soldiers from the
Canadian Army – a replacement for a church that had been destroyed in an air
raid. The toil and commitment those engineers displayed seventy years ago
has ensured that even today the structure is still known as Canada Hall.
Eager to unravel the full story I began to delve further, starting with the
explosion of a parachute mine on the evening of 19 April 1941. In the course
of the research that followed, little-known Police reports were uncovered,
survivors of the blast interviewed and fascinating archive photographs
located. The results of this investigation are revealed on page 106.
Memorable though this tragic episode (and the subsequent events) may
have been, it was just one of many thousands of such incidents throughout the
UK in the dangerous days of the Second World War. It left me wondering how
many more stories like this are still to be told.
Martin Mace
Editor
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The Royal Air Force
was formed on the
first day of April 1918
by amalgamating the
Royal Flying Corps and
the Royal Naval Air
Service. The events of
that first historic day are
examined by Norman
Franks on
page 27.
This month’s cover
painting, by Mark
Postlethwaite GAvA,
depicts a Royal Aircraft
Factory SE5a in combat
with Fokker DVIIs over
the Western Front.
(Courtesy of Mark
Postlethwaite;
www.posart.com)
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BACK ISSUES
ISSUE 70
FEBRUARY 2013
Editor’s Choice:
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86
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GUERNSEY’S FIRST WORLD
WAR GERMAN GUNS
Standing in a quiet formal garden
are two German field howitzers. Most
people may simply pass them by,
unaware that they were not left over
from the Occupation of the islands in
the 1940s, but had been presented to
Guernsey after the First World War.
For over seventy years, a unique set of photographs have graced
Alan Williams’ family album. Taken in Dorset in 1940, the pictures
portray a Heinkel He 111 crashed during the Battle of Britain. Here
Roger Hopkins
reconstructs the unforgettable September day when
friend and foe came face to face.
Page
106
Page
21
Features
Page
70
Page
62
27
36
44
RAF FIRST DAY IN COMBAT
The Royal Air Force was formed on the first day of April
1918. The events of that first historic day are examined by
Norman Franks.
LOST BEHIND ENEMY LINES
An officer in the Drake Battalion of the 63rd (Royal Naval)
Division describes how he lost his way in No Man’s Land
and was captured by the enemy.
COLOURS FLYING
Page
94
Page
14
She was far slower and hopelessly out-gunned, but in true
Nelson fashion the Armed Merchant Cruiser
Rawalpindi
refused to surrender to the enemy.
62
70
“WE ARE BUT WARRIORS FOR THE WORKING
DAY”
Mark Laity
describes the creation of a unique painting
depicting his father on a mission in his Avro Lancaster in
December 1944.
DEATH OF AN EMPRESS
As
Chris Goss
relates, the troopship
Empress of Britain
became the largest British merchant ship to be sunk in the
Second World War.
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94
STREET FIGHTING GALLANTRY, 1945
An attempt to capture the German town of Lingen a
month before the war’s end turned into a rescue mission
spearheaded by a Wasp flame-throwing carrier.
The determination to halt Japanese troops in Burma shown
by Jemadar Abdul Hafiz led to the posthumous award of the
Victoria Cross for his actions on 6 April 1944.
EYEWITNESS TO VALOUR
34
42
50
57
77
IMAGE OF WAR
19 August 1942: In action over Dieppe.
The Martin-Baker MB3 prototype fighter.
WEIRD AND WONDERFUL WINGS
THE BRITISH ARMY
TANK TIMES
NEW!
KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF
2: The début of the tank during the Battle of the Somme,
1916.
The latest issue of
Tank Times
from The Tank Museum,
Bovington.
We chart some of the key moments and events that affected
the United Kingdom in February 1943.
TRAGEDY,
106
PARACHUTE MINE
Surrey bomber
1941
Merstham.
On 19 April 1941, a
Luftwaffe
dropped a
parachute mine on the
village of South
The resulting explosion obliterated the church which stood
nearby.
DATES THAT SHAPED THE WAR
Regulars
6
22
BRIEFING ROOM
News, Restorations, Discoveries and Events from around the
UK.
Your letters.
FIELDPOST
101
RECONNAISSANCE REPORT
A look at new books and products.
SAVE IN A FIRE
114
WHAT I WOULD
Office log book from RAF Wickenby in
The wartime Watch
Lincolnshire.

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