After The Battle, Issue 7

The first 27 pages of this issue are concerned with The Last Days Of Mussolini.  This well detailed article is chaptered as follows:

Milan

Como

Menaggio

Grandola – Mirravelle Hotel

Musso

Dongo

Germassino – Mezzegra

The Villa Belmonte

Milan

The following article is in the “Personality” format and is titled Admiral Of The Fleet Prince Philip.  This story follows the wartime career of Prince Philip.

P-47 Thunderbolt Recovery is a short 2 page article on the wreck recovery of a P-47 Thunderbolt which crashed in a meadow whilst on a test flight from USAAF’s Base Air Depot at Burtonwood, Lancashire.

Another short (4 page) article follows titled The Keele Air Photo Library.  It is a collection of vertical reconnaissance aerial photographs taken over what was for long “Enemy-occupied Europe” with the exception of territory that used to belong to the Warsaw Pact.

Under the “War Films” format the making of Patton is covered.  This was an in-depth screen portrait of the most controversial and successful commander of World War II.

Linked to the previous article is a 2 page feature under the format “Where Are They Now” which looks at where Patton’s vehicles are today.

Following on the Patton story under “It Happened Here” is a 5 page article The Death Of George S Patton.

This issue closes with a final Patton story, General Patton At Knutsford, where the so-called “Russian insult” took place.

In all 54 pages of fascinating military history which in many instances is transmitted into the respected “Then and Now” theme.