Description
Contents: Editorial; Undercover (The Australian-mounted Z-Force’s kayak raid on Singapore was totally unexpected by the Japanese occupiers); Armament (“Screaming Meemies” was the right name for the ferocious German rocket so evident at the Battle of the Bulge); Personality (In North Africa, the Italian wolf found itself outfoxed by a “Little Terrier”); Books (To Germany’s regret, strategic bombing was given different priorities by the Luftwaffe and the USAAF); Long Patrol Extended (Carlson’s Marine Raiders plunged into Guadalcanal’s jungles – not to appear for more than a month); Imperfect Victory Assured (The Falaise pocket was a great Allied victory, turning loose the powerful forces that landed at Normandy, but it was also somewhat of a flawed victory in its outcome); Aboard The Athenia (September 3, 1939 – A little after 11 o’clock that morning, a notice posted on the ship’s bulletin board announced England was at war with Germany. Conversations aboard Athenia faltered); Galloping Ghost Surrounded (Running the Sunda Strait after the disastrous Battle of the Java Sea, the American Houston and Australian Perch ran smack into the Japanese landing force – and it’s protective warships)
Issue: July 1989
Condition: Very Good