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For the August 2010 selection, we present the following features:
Every month it will feature a number of fascinating new
AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED GREEN FOR GO
The Germans were convinced that with RAF Fighter Command stretched to its limits in the south of England, northern Britain would be thinly defended. So, on 15 August 1940, a large formation of Heinkel He 111s, with Messerschmitt Bf 110s as escorts, attacked the North-West. Based at RAF Catterick, 41 Squadron was despatched to intercept and Pilot
Officer Ted “Shippy” Shipman ledGreen Section into the fray in what proved to be a disastrous encounter for the
Luftwaffe. Through an amazing set of camera gun shots and archive photographs we reveal the fate of one of the German fighters!
STEALING THE CROWN JEWELS
Amsterdam has long been one of the world’s leading centres for the cutting of diamonds. So when the Germans attacked Holland without warning on Friday, 10May 1940, one of their key objectiveswas the seizure of the city’s large stock of diamonds – providing they were quick enough! John Grehan tells the story of an astonishing smash and grab raid.
FLYING THE FLAG
In the spring of 1942, the Commander-in-Chief of Coastal Command, Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip de la Ferté Joubert, was informed through the SOE that the occupying German forces paraded daily in Paris.
Joubert
decided, discovered Martin Mace, that this was an ideal opportunity to send amessage of support to the French population.
By early 1915, the fighting on the Western Front had stalemated into static trench warfare. The death toll had reached such epic proportions that none of the British, French orGerman armies could keep up the tactics of mass charges by their troops across No Man’s Land only to be slaughtered in vast numbers by machine- gun fire or die entangled in the defences. As KenWright describes, an answer had to be found.
PoWVOCABULARY: AWHOLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGE
Every trade or enterprise develops its own terminology and slang. This was no different for prisoners of war during the Second World War who found themselves trapped within the confines of their prison camps. RobertMitchell presents a fascinating insight into some of the words and phrases adopted behind the barbed-wire.
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