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(December 13th 1940)
Front cover:
He Sounds The Call Of Empire At Aden
In this issue:
Still The Greeks Drove On In Triumph (An account of the fighting around Argyrokastro)
Brothers In Arms In The Balkan War (Photos of British and Greek troops together)
Britain Helps To Hit The Italians Hard (Nice photo of a column of British Bren Carriers in Greece)
Britain’s Railwaymen Are Fighting Through
Magnificent Work In Keeping The Lines Open (Includes a photo of steam engines at an L.M.S. station)
Things To Remember When The Train Is Late
Chelsea Pensioners In The Wars Again (The bombing of the Chelsea Royal Hospital)
Despite Nazi Attacks Britain’s Air Strength Grows
Our Bombers And Fighters Harass The Italians
The Royal Air Force Now Plays Its Part In Greece
Cagliari Was A Resounding British Victory (An account of the naval action off Sardinia)
New Machines Will Add To Fleet Air Arm Glories (The Fleet Air Arm’s torpedo planes specially drawn for The War Illustrated)
To The Rescue Of Our Animal Friends Caught In The Flaming Fury Of Man-Made War (Photos of pet and animal rescue during the Blitz)
Under The Nazis “Poland Has Forgotten Laughter” (An account of life in Poland after more than a year of occupation)
They Celebrate A Year’s Tyranny In Poland (Full-page photo of a march past of German military police in Cracow)
Aden: Britain’s Other – And Lesser – Gibraltar (Includes a lovely photo of a British armoured car)
Guardian Of The Great Route To The East (Two photos of the harbours)
Where Britons And Indians Keep Watch Together (Aden)
Ninety-Nine – Then It Was A Hundred (The achievements of no. 609 (West Riding) squadron on destroying their 100th enemy plane)
“I Was There” (We got the “Sussex” home to port)
“I Was There” (How we chased the Italians to their lair)
“I Was There” (I flew with the bombers to Bari)
Life-Saving Speed Boats Of The R.A.F.
Our Diary Of The War
plus more
THE WAR ILLUSTRATED
Read about World War II as it happened and as it was portrayed to the British public. This newspaper was published every two weeks from the start of hostilities in 1939 through the war and until 1947.
As its title suggests this publication contains a wealth of archive material including dozens of photographs from the various news agencies in each issue. It does therefore include photographic material covering every theatre of conflict and taken from both the allies and axis lines, although, as one would expect, the text and the accounts of action do have a definite bias towards the allied forces.
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