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HARRIERS in battle:
the pilots speak
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BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
LANCASTER
75
ANNIVERSARY:
UNIQUE LANCASTER IMAGES
TH
BLAZING BOMBER VC HERO
TIRPITZ RAID
EXCLUSIVE
PLUS:
Oral History of
the First War
New Regular on
War Posters
MOD Records
Released
NAZIS ON
ETON BOYS FIRST BATTLE OF
WAR FALLEN
BRITAIN: 1940 BRITISH SOIL
Stepping out from the classroom
onto the Battlefields
Detective work to find
missing Sergeant Pilot
Alderney: Channel Island
abandoned to its fate
JANUARY
2016
ISSUE 105
UK
£4.50
From the
Editor...
A
S AN iconic and war-winning weapon we felt that we could not ignore the 75th anniversary of the
first flight of a Lancaster bomber on 9 January, 1941, and, in particular, the aircraft’s subsequent
service to RAF Bomber Command between late 1941 and right through to the end of the war in 1945.
In keeping with our usual treatment of such subjects, Britain at War Magazine’s coverage of this milestone
anniversary concerns itself more with the remarkable men who flew in the Lancaster rather than of the remarkable
machine itself. In that context, we look at a story of extraordinary courage surrounding Flt Lt Ian Bazalgette who
won the Victoria Cross after his heroic efforts in a blazing Lancaster as well as relating an account of the man who
famously photographed the bombing of the German battleship Tirpitz from a Lancaster bomber. Whilst the aircraft
itself was truly magnificent, then the men who flew in them were surely doubly-so.
Additionally, this month, we take a look at the exploits of those who flew in another remarkable
aircraft during the Falklands war; the incomparable Harrier. Again, our focus is on the men who
flew them rather than the machine. Lancaster men and Harrier men – we salute you!
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
EDITORIAL
Editor:
Andy Saunders
Assistant Editor:
John Ash
Editorial Correspondents:
Geoff Simpson, Alex Bowers, Mark Khan, Rob Pritchard
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DESIGN
Art Editor:
Dan Jarman
COMMERCIAL
Executive Chairman:
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FEATURES
18 Blood and Thunder: Eton’s Fallen Boys
Alexandra Churchill highlights some tales of tragic loss behind Eton
College’s memorial plaques movingly displayed in the school’s
cloisters.
Superstition is always rife among servicemen, and so when a
Sergeant Pilot predicted crashing into the sea and then went
missing his premonition was believed accurate. Decades later, his
real fate was finally uncovered.
82 The Abandoned Island: Alderney 1940
The fate that befell the Channel Island of Alderney is revealed by
Simon Hamon, who tells the story of the island’s evacuation and
German occupation.
35 Finding Cock Sparrow
102 Galtieri – My Part in His Downfall!
Harrier pilot and Falklands veteran Dave Morgan describes his part
in a fast-paced and low-level strike against the heavily defended
Argentine-held air base at Stanley.
Contents
A subscription to Britain
at War makes a great
gift idea. See pages
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for details.
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The Abandoned Island
LANCASTER AT 75
62 Supreme Sacrifice
A tribute to the Lancaster and those who flew on it comes
from Steve Snelling, who charts the heroic story of the selfless
sacrifice of Ian Bazalgette, the Pathfinder’s only VC recipient.
When RAF Bomber Command Lancasters sank the
Tirpitz
in 1944
a RAF photographer went along to record the event.
Wendy Carlson tells his story.
Editor’s Choice
74 Shooting The Tirpitz
92 HARRIER DOWN!
Decades after the war, Gordon Ramsey examines the stories
behind the five combat losses of Harriers over the Falklands and
visits the crash sites where wreckage still litters the landscape.
REGULARS
6 News
The latest news and events for your diary.
Our month by month look into the First World War’s key events
comes to January 1916 and the start of a third painful year of bloody
conflict; an Allied nation is overrun, and British and Indian troops
begin to suffer at Kut.
Your letters, input and feedback.
28 First World War Diary
32 Fieldpost
44 War Posters
In our new regular series we present the story behind some of
Britain’s most famous wartime posters.
We scout out a range of new titles, including our book of the month
on heroic First World War tunnellers.
January 1916s awards as listed in the London Gazette are highlighted
and we present another ‘Hero of the Month’ from Lord Ashcroft.
We take a look at the Mentioned in Despatches Certificate.
58 Recon Report
108 Great War Gallantry
48 What It Was Really
Like: Voices from the
First World War
114 The First World War in Objects
The Imperial War Museum’s oral
historian, Peter Hart, assesses the
importance and usefulness of oral
history to military historians and
examines some harrowing examples.
NEWS FEATURES
16 Into the Archives
Our Editor is let in to the MODs dusty vaults at Portsmouth’s Royal
Navy base to see how files from all three services are prepared
for public release and presents an early teaser of newly released
❅
documents.
COVER STORY
❅
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Lancasters of RAF Bomber Command
release their Tallboy bombs against the
German Battleship Tirpitz moored in a
Norwegian fjord on 12 November 1944.
The ship was sunk during the attack
which was filmed and photographed by
Flt Lt Hugh Rogers on board a special
film unit Lancaster. We tell his story
in 'Shooting The Beast', pages 74 -80.
(ARTWORK BY PIOTR FORKASIEWICZ
❅
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Supreme Sacrifice
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BRITAIN AT WAR MAGAZINE, 2015)
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