They stood face to face and shook hands like the best of friends. One was Major Pete Lambert and the other, Franz Becker, an officer in the hated German SS. And all around them were hot guns smoking and the acrid smell of war… Story: Allan Art: Gordon C Livingstone Cover: Gordon C Livingstone
The capture of an important hostage can change the course of any battle. So imagine the delight of the ragged bunch of Italian partisans who laid hands on Leutnant Franz von Siegel, son of the dreaded Generalmajor von Siegel, Commanding Officer of the most feared and hated Nazi regiment — the “Firebrand Division”. And the […]
It must have been the strangest duel in the Second World War – a rifle matched against a giant V2 rocket, the Nazis’ most fearful terror weapon. But the man carefully sighting along that rifle barrel was dead-shot Captain Gordon Baxter. He wasn’t likely to miss, even when he knew he’d probably be blown to […]
As the Allies poured men and equipment onto the Normandy beaches in the attempt to smash their way into Hitler’s Europe, many weird and secret weapons were used in action for the very first time. Yet none of these secret weapons were anything like that of Private “Knuckles” MacNeil…the hero who stormed ashore with the […]
Like almost everybody else, Corporal Barney Newman didn’t know whether a stalactite grew up or if a stalagmite hung down. And to him it didn’t seem very important… until he found himself dodging about in an underground cavern with only stalactites and stalagmites between him and hot Nazi lead. But what was Barney, a tank […]
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 […]
The American military policeman, fatally wounded, gasped out his last words — in German! And that was more than enough to set British Captain Bob Lawton thinking hard. For he and his CO, Lieutenant-General Digby, were in the care of Yank MPs behind enemy lines in North Africa and far from any friendly unit. To […]
Down through the night came the Nazi paratroopers, each heavily-armed man dropping as silently as a flake of snow. Their mission was to assassinate one man who had talked too much — and everyone who had listened to him. | Story | Allan | Art | CT Rigby | Cover | Penalva |
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 […]
Bill Drummond, a British Army lieutenant, looked in dismay at the cringing figure crouching in the corner of the cellar, fear haunting his nervous, flickering eyes. Bill found it hard to believe that this was the same man who’d saved his life only weeks before. But then he didn’t know the full story of this […]
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