12 Feb WM

You are bidding on a vintage World War Two Issue of ‘War Illustrated’ Magazine

• Vol 1 No 12

• DECEMBER 2^nd 1939

• Pages; 32
  
  

  War Illustrated needs no introduction to anyone interested in World War Two. In addition to contemporary photographs of the war in all its elements – all of which are accompanied by descriptive script, the magazine contains intelligent articles on all aspects of the war.
  
  One really interesting section is the “I WAS THERE!” - Eye-Witness report Section.
  
  

• Photos: FP = Full page, HP = Half Page

• Front Cover: French Sailors Man Their AA Gun

• FP Pic: A Scottish Regiment marches into a French village behind the lines, led by their Pipe Band

• 3 Pics and Article: Invention Gives Accuracy to the Gunners Aim

• 2 Pics: Play and Dance Banish the Polius' Boredom

• 3 Pics: Empire (New Zealand) Pilot's Unique Feat in the Aerial War

• FP Pic: Mighty Symbol of the Naval Strength of France. The Cruiser Algorie'

• 4 Pics: 'Battle Practice' Oils the A. R. P. Machine:
  Mock Air raid at Bethnal Green

• FP Pic: Fiery Particles Streaming from War's Cauldron: Royal Ordnance Factory

• 2 x HP Pics: Lord Gort Gets to Know His Men Day by Day
  Viscount Gort with members of A Scottish Regiment.

• 2 x HP Pics: The Commander-in-Chief Watches Every Detail
  Viscount Gort with members of A Scottish Regiment.

• 5 Pics: The Navy, too Fights in the Air: Fleet Air Arm

• 4 Pics and Article: One More Convoy Safe Home in Port

• ¾ Page Pic: Though the Sun Goes Down the Convoy is Unafraid

• 6 Pics: The First Anniversary in the Second Great War. Armistice Day

• Yet Another Sea Crime in the Nazi Score: The Sinking of the 'Simon Bolivar'
  
  

• Articles:

• 2 Pics and Article: Planes in Action Above the Halted War

• 3 Pics and Article: Dutchmen Refuse to be Rattled

• 5 Pics and Article: France Has a 'Silent' Navy Too

• 2 Pics and Article: French Fliers in Spectacular Air Battle

• 3 Pics and Article: Solitary Watchers of the Skies: Observers on the East Coast

• 2 Pics and Article: British Science is Helping to Win the War. Searchlights and radar

• 'Royal Ordnance' Won't Let the Soldiers Down

• 'The German Menace Will Be Broken' Winston Churchill
  Inc 2 Photos of Winston Churchill

• Words that History Will Remember

• Odd Facts About the War

• 'I WAS THERE': “The Fuehrer Had Just Left us When'” Beer Keller Hitler Assassination Attempt t:

• 'I WAS THERE': “We Saw the Jewish Pogrom in Germany” by Mr R T Smallbone and Miss Irene Smallbone” (With photos of Mr and Miss Smallbone)

• 'I WAS THERE':  “We Tried to Save Our Mined Destroyer”: by Able Seaman Hoyle, of Craven Park N.W.
  Also inc Photo of “One of the five men who were missing, Ordinary Seaman Gospell at home in the North of England with his mother

• 'I WAS THERE': “We Spent Five Days in the Deutschland. The Crew of the British ship “Stonegate”

• 'I WAS THERE': 'Our Ship Was Sunk by a Pocket Battleship (The “Admiral Scheer”): The British Cargo-ship ”Clements”

• First Bombs Dropped on Britain in This War
  Inc Photo of the German Raid ion the Shetland Isles'

The magazine has some light wear and buffeting commensurate with this age, mainly the fact that the staples have disintegrated - apart from which it is in good condition with no rips, tears, writing or other major marks.

• Happy bidding!

• Postage: £1.85

• NB: We have lots of these and will gladly combine postage.

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  Thanks for your time: Jim & Donna