Meet Private Casey, the biggest scrounger in the army. He’d pinch anything unless it was nailed down — and while he was at it he let the other guys get on with the fighting. The exact opposite of a hero, that was Private Casey. So how come a guy like that managed to win a […]
Only three men were left alive in a dug-out on the British front line in Italy, Lieutenant John Regan, his wounded batman and a captured German officer. Nazi soldiers were swarming forward to smash through this weak point. John had no men left to repel them, but he still had one desperate remedy. As the […]
In his first action against the Germans, Lieutenant Guy Morton lowered his head and charged. His men cheered and followed — and that was a shock for Guy, because he’d been sure he was running away from the fight! Deep down, Lieutenant Guy Morton felt he was a coward — and now he had been […]
Before the war, the boxing fans packed out halls all over Britain to see Colin ‘Kid’ McCoy win yet another fight with his flashing fists and sparkling footwork. Then war came and Kid found himself in a different kind of fight where you swap bullets instead of punches, and the loser stays down for keeps. […]
The men of the Special Air Service are trained to be tough and super fit. And the officers’ training is even tougher, for they must command and gain the respect of their hard‑fighting men. With troops like these, you can ask them to do the impossible… which is just what the War Office did with […]
High on a sand dune in the fierce heat of the African sun, Sergeant Bill Bradley and Major Otto Schmitt faced each other, armed with deadly swords. These were two men in a struggle so desperate that only one would walk away. The strutting German had no doubt who that would be. Hadn’t he been […]
They say a sailor can turn his hand to anything. So meet Able-Bodied Seaman Tim Jackson and Chris Walters of HM Submarine Service, who found themselves in the middle of the North African desert, and became the toughest pair of desert fighters west of El Alamein. Story: Boyle Art: Aguilar Cover: Penalva
Strange things — very strange things — happen in the desert under the hot blazing sun which saps people’s strength and attacks their minds with savage hammer blows of heat. Take the day, for instance, when British and German soldiers, fierce enemies the previous day, stood shoulder to shoulder, guns blazing, to fight back a […]
…His sworn enemy was sure to go. The military policemen stood ankle-deep in the snow at the cross-roads in the Ardennes. Their uniforms, their slouch, and the constant motion of their jaws as they chewed gum marked them clearly as Americans. And that’s just exactly what who any who saw them were meant to think. […]
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