Tag Archives: WW2

Man of Honour

According to legend, a brave knight in armour would come to help the people of the French village of Toulours whenever they were in trouble, as he had done centuries before. Now the peaceful little village echoed with the sound of invading troops with all their modern equipment —trucks, motorcycles, machine guns, mortars. Surely there […]

Foul Play

Issue Number: 5625

In the smoking ruins of his latest mission, SAS Major Elliot Slater finds an invitation to an exclusive party with a familiar host. Calling in favours from his SOE colleagues Hywel Williams and Pip Moresby, Slater’s new recruit, Lady Margaret Green, ensures they make the guest list. But with a secret coup, errant SS, and […]

A Soldier’s Honour

Issue Number: 5624

As the German half-track hurtled towards the two men, Captain Peter Brookes grabbed the startled German officer and hauled him to safety. But who was driving the vehicle? Why did he want to kill his own countryman? It was a mystery that had started in France, continued in North Africa, and was now back in […]

The Fighting Swordfish

Issue Number: 5622

With the stick pulled right back and the engine screaming, the plane missed the heads of the startled Germans by mere inches. For a day and a night this Fairley Swordfish had been grounded in hostile territory, all for the want of a piece of copper tubing and a soldering iron. And they still weren’t […]

North Sea Fury

Issue Number: 5621

In 1940, Erik Jacobsen and his father Harold worked on a fishing boat called “Agnetha”. Their life was peaceful until one day, it was spotted by a German Heinkel 111 hellbent on vengeance! For not long before, this Heinkel had been forced to crash-land after being shot up by a fishing boat named “Agatha”. Well, […]

Moment of Truth

Issue Number: 5620

The two Royal Engineers sprang to their feet and sprinted down the tunnel, heading for the open air and safety. Behind them came a menacing chatter as the German armoured car opened up with its machine gun, the heavy bullets whining and spattering off the concrete walls. At any moment a ricochet might hit the […]

Achtung, Destroyer!

Issue Number: 5619

This is where it all began, in the Mediterranean Sea, 1941. John Griffin and Martin Beaumont were two Aussie skippers poles apart in nature. One was a stickler for the rules, the other had but one —do whatever it takes. However, a German raider was about to bring them together to form an unlikely alliance. […]

Tiger, Tiger!

Issue Number: 5618

When young Horace Harper was at school the newspapers had headlines about him… ‘Boy Defeats Tiger!’, ‘Schoolboy’s Amazing Courage!’ and so on. It was only a few years later that Horace had his courage tested again, by another tiger. But this time it had a capital ‘T’ –the dreaded Tiger Mark VI tank.   Story: […]