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CHILCOT REPORT
KEY POINTS
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BADER
BALE-OUT
Hero’s Demise
Over France
BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
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Battling Above
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Churchill’s
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THE GATES
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AUGUST
2016
ISSUE 112
UK
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From the
Editor...
F
OR THE next few years, up to 2018, we will see a series of centenary commemorations of famous battles and events
of the First World War. Running parallel to those commemorations, and beyond 2018, we will also be seeing 75
th
and
80
th
anniversaries of significant battles and campaigns of the Second World War as the calendar inexorably moves
ever forward and takes us, eventually, out of living memory of those events. Indeed, only in this issue we see the obituary
of another of ‘the Few’ as that gallant band gets ever fewer.
For the large part, events from both wars that are now commemorated are ‘iconic’ and militarily significant. For instance, and as
recently marked in this magazine, the Somme, Jutland, The Blitz and loss of HMS
Hood.
But there are other anniversaries which get
passed-by in the clamour of bigger and arguably more significant events, including RAF Fighter Command’s offensive over Northern
Europe which launched in 1941 with its costly ‘Circus’ and ‘Rhubarb’ operations and which we mark this month in our cover story.
Militarily questionable in value, these operations saw huge RAF losses for little success. Amongst the casualties, including the killed,
wounded and POW, was the cream of RAF Fighter Command; valued fighter-leaders and seasoned pilots who had survived the Battle
of Britain. The life-blood of Fighter Command was wastefully drained away across that year – a year which also saw the loss of Wing
Commander Douglas Bader, brought down over France and taken POW in what has since become a somewhat controversial episode.
The men lost in 1941 were not lauded as were ‘the Few’
– but their sacrifice deserves equal recognition.
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
EDITORIAL
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Andy Saunders
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John Ash
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FEATURES
18 'Reach for the Sky' - Myth and Reality
Seventy-five years ago Wing Commander Douglas Bader
abandoned his stricken Spitfire over occupied France - an
episode made famous in the book ‘Reach For The Sky’ and
through the film of the same name. But what really happened on
9 August 1941? Andy Saunders investigates.
In the first of a three-part epic, Imperial War Museum historian
Peter Hart takes up the story of the South Notts Hussars, Royal
Artillery, as they lend their mighty guns to the defence of Tobruk.
Steve Snelling plots the course of a forgotten Great War ‘David
verses Goliath’ naval battle in the Adriatic Sea which gave rise to
courage and, allegedly, cowardice.
72 The Rolls Royce ‘Kifaru’
Kevin Patience explores the remarkable story of a fleet of Rolls
Royce armoured cars seeing constant action in the percieved
backwater theatre which was Great War East Africa.
80 Brighton Pavilion’s Indians
44 At the Gates of Tobruk
As the wounded from the largest part of the British Empire
flooded into Southern England, Alexandra Churchill tells the story
of the palace converted to care for these injured troops and the
townsfolk who generously welcomed them.
Steve Taylor examines the counter to two planned invasions of
the Falkland Islands in the Second World War which had some
striking parallels to the real invasion four decades later.
60 The Otranto Straits Affair
88 A Cold War - Churchill’s Falklands Fear
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Contents
ISSUE 112
AUGUST 2016
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The Otranto Straits Affair
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Brighton Pavilion’s Indians
94 Battles Over the Barents
Editor’s Choice
The early Arctic convoys battled the elements as much as
the enemy and Andrew Thomas explains the difference
that limited air cover available to these vital ships could
sometimes have.
NEWS FEATURE
6 Chilcot Report: Analysis
John Ash presents the key points from the long-awaited Chilcot
Report into British involvement in the Second Gulf War in Iraq.
32 Gas! A Deadly Weapon?
John Ash analyses the origins, usage and effectiveness of
arguably one of the most defining weapons of the First World
War – Poison Gas.
REGULARS
11 News
News, restorations, discoveries and events from around the World.
30 War Posters
Phil Jarman analyses another iconic wartime poster, this time a
Great War recruitment poster designed by Boer War Hero and
founder of the Boy Scouts movement, Robert Baden-Powell.
Your letters, input, and feedback.
42 Fieldpost
52 First World War Diary
Our monthly look at the Great War’s key events reaches August.
The Battles of the Somme and Verdun continue to rage, a new ally
enters the war and a large Ottoman force is defeated near the Suez
Canal.
Our team continues to scout out the latest historical titles,
including our ‘Book of the Month’, a seminal work on the conflict
archaeology surrounding the Battle of Jutland.
Our monthly look at gallantry awards as announced in The London
Gazette continues, with another ‘Hero of the Month’ selected by
Lord Ashcroft.
A shell fragment, known to have claimed a life, is this month’s
object from the Great War.
104 Recon Report
108 Great War Gallantry
114 The First World War in Objects
COVER STORY
On 9 August 1941 the legendary
fighter-leader Wing Commander
Douglas Bader was downed
over France and taken POW as
the tail of his Spitfire became
severed during an air battle. The
circumstances have since been
surrounded by an element of
mystery and intrigue and these
are investigated in our lead
feature this month.
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Battles over the Barents
(ILLUSTRATION BY PIOTR FORKASIEWICZ
– INFO@PETERFOR.COM)
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