The island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea has its fair share of ancient legends. The most famous and terrifying of these is about the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. By the time of the Second World War such a story was laughed at — […]
A gang of renegades led by a ruthless SS Death’s Head officer, Karl Schwarz, was terrorising an area of Bavaria as the war drew to a close. The task of tracking them down fell to Wehrmacht Oberleutnant Werner Lang and he had many reasons to succeed. The main one being that if he didn’t… he […]
Werner Kohl had seen plenty of action all right… but not on the battlefield. All his fighting had been done on film, playing the part of a superhero to make every citizen in Hitler’s Germany believe that the Nazi war machine was unbeatable. He had critics though — many of the soldiers who had to […]
The desert war was a hard, fast and furious series of lightning clashes between tough professional warriors striving for supremacy in the sandy wastes. But it was a clean, fair war, with each side treating its enemies decently and honourably… It should have been like that for Lieutenant Dick Shannon too — but then Dick […]
In the Autumn of 1940, Hitler turned the full might of his air armada on the civilian population of London. Night after night, bombs rained down on houses, factories and shops. In those desperate days, young Dave Ross of the Auxiliary Fire Service found out what it was like on the front line of the […]
Ted Whitaker was a bomber pilot who never took unnecessary risks. He always got his crew home in one piece. Then he was sent to another squadron, and the first person he met was his new CO. Squadron Leader Simon Naylor was reckless to the point of madness and expected his pilots to be the […]
The Nazi dream was shattered, broken and splintered between the forces of the Allies. And yet some diehards would still not admit defeat. Somehow, somewhere they were certain that the sinister swastika would rule again. Which was why a group of them set sail on a war-weary U-boat as the ruins of Germany blazed. And […]
Weighing 218 tons, the Wehrmacht’s K5 railway guns could fire a shell almost forty miles. Aircraft and heavy guns could knock them out, but first they had to be found. Story: Alan Hemus Art: Gordon C Livingstone Cover: Ian Kennedy
Hitler’s latest secret weapon, the lightning-fast Messerschmitt 262 jets were unmatched by the Allies in speed. So the RAF had to go down and nail this menace for good, the hard way – on the ground. But to dive your Tempest right inside a hangar full of a dozen jets and drop your bombs – […]
The Luftwaffe were after him, the Germans were hunting him, even his own mates in the RAF were out for Pete Kelly’s head. If ever there was a harum‑scarum fighting fool, it was Kelly. Imagine it! What kind of a man takes off in a brand new Spitfire for a sweep over Italy and ends […]
