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GEOGRAPHICAL LISTING AFTER the BATTLE MAGAZINE ISSUES 1 to 188 GEOGRAPHICAL LISTING AFTER THE BATTLE MAGAZINE ISSUES 1 to 188 Location Story Issue Page AFRICA Cape Blanco Capture of the U-505 3 44 Egypt El Alamein ’89 68 48 Egypt Siwa Oasis in the Western Desert 98 28 Libya Libya 51 1 Libya The Lady Be Good 25 34 Libya The Return of the Lady Be Good 89 28 Libya Raid on Rommel’s Headquarters 153 2 North Africa The Long Range Desert Group 44 32 North Africa Western Desert Battlefield Tours 159 41 North Africa The Desert War Then and Now 159 54 North Africa Operation Flagpole 184 26 Tobruk Tobruk Revisited 51 8 Tunisia The Battle for El Guettar 144 3 Tunisia The Battle of Takrouna 12 48 Tunisia Kasserine 134 3 North Africa Montgomery’s Tactical Headquarters 181 2 AUSTRALIA Australia Australian Military Plaques Project 85 33 Australia Just One Crew of Many 131 22 Australia The Discovery of HMAS Sydney 141 42 Australia Lyndon B Johnson’s Silver Star 156 36 Australia Pinguin in Australian Waters 184 43 Ballarat Australia’s Ex-POW Memorial 125 26 Broome Air Raid on Broome 28 44 Canberra The Australian Unknown Soldier 83 1 Cowra The Mass Escape from Cowra 57 37 Darwin Devastation at Darwin 67 40 Kapooka Kapooka Training Accident 145 34 Melbourne Cricket the American Way 69 23 Port Stephens Port Stephens Amphibious Training Centre 179 44 Queensland Australia’s Worst Air Disaster 153 44 Sydney The Night That Shook Sydney 53 24 Victoria Australian Beaufort Crash 93 28 Victoria The First Allied Shots 90 1 Victoria POW Camp No’ 13 at Murchison 144 30 Victoria Victoria’s Shrine of Remembrance 127 52 West Australia Dinah Recovery in WA 39 41 AUSTRIA Vienna 50 Years Ago – Anschlussin Austria 59 52 BAHRAIN 18 Bahrain The Italian Raid on Bahrain 56 BELGIUM Antwerp Antwerp – The City of Death 57 43 Antwerp Disaster at Antwerp 42 42 Antwerp Spear of Destruction 75 51 Antwerp The Notorious Fort Breendonk 51 28 Ardennes Battle of the Bulge –Through The Lens 99 40 Ardennes Battle of the Bulge 4 1 Ardennes Battle of the Bulge Then and Now 35 17 Ardennes The 99th Division MIA Search Team 93 50 Ardennes With the Company Commander 73 1 Ardennes Return to the Battle of the Bulge 167 26 Bande Christmas Eve 1944 –Massacre at Bande 30 1 Belgium Belgian Spitfire Pilot Honoured 94 34 Belgium Hitler on the Western Front 117 2 Belgium Death of The Kaiser 182 2 Bruges Kriegsmarine Listening Post at Castle Ter Linden 120 35 Brussels The Belgian Tank Museum 32 51 Brussels Gestapo Headquarters in Brussels 185 51 Dochamps Friendly-Fire Incident 119 34 Eben-Emael Fort Eben-Emael 5 28 Escaut River The River Escaut Demolitions 3 22 Esquelmes Guards VC, Blitzkrieg 1940 104 38 Ghent The Desert Rats at Ghent 94 40 Kotem The River Maas Buffalo 24 50 Merksem The Battle for Merksem 85 47 Meuse-Escaut Canal Prelude to ‘Market-Garden’ 17 6 Mons The Battle of the Mons Pocket 115 2 Namur The Capture of Kurt Meyer 98 42 Péronnes Gunners Turn the Clock Back 46 52 Poteau Poteau Revisited 142 49 Wetteren The Battle for Wetteren Bridge 107 34 BOSNIA Sarajevo The Sarajevo Assassination 164 3 Drvar Operation Rosselsprung 165 3 BURMA Burma The Death of Orde Wingate 96 1 Burma The Death Railway 26 1 Kohima Pilgrimage to Kohima 74 36 Rangoon The Discovery of KN563 102 46 Rangoon The Road to Rangoon 102 30 CANADA Assiniboia Forty Years On, Investigation No. 4 41 50 Bowmanville The Battle at Camp Bowmanville 167 3 Canada The Empire Air Training Scheme 151 40 Quebec The Quebec Conference 96 14 La Ronge Commemorating Saskatchewan’s War Dead 113 53 Ottawa Adolf Hitler’s Mercedes-Benz 5 52 Ottawa The Story of a Car (Hitler’s Mercedes) 35 1 Ottawa The Canadian Unknown Soldier 109 24 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Czechoslovakia Silent Heroes 75 32 Czechoslovakia The Case of PFC Fred W Ashley 173 44 Prague The Carpatho-Dukla Operation 139 44 The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich 24 1 Czechoslovakia Holleischen Concentration Camp 162 28 DENMARK Aarhus The Aarhus Attack 54 42 Aalborg The Aalborg Attack 72 1 Anholt U-534 – The Mystery Boat 83 22 Copenhagen The Shell House 113 3 Stevensford The Gneisenau Fires Again 95 52 FINLAND Finland Finland 1939-40: The Raate Road 39 34 Helsinki Soviet Air Attacks on Helsinki 127 40 Petsamo Soviet Victory in the Arctic 99 1 FRANCE Amiens Lost in a Foreign Field 169 24 Amiens Operation ‘Jericho’ – The Amiens Raid 28 1 Ascq The Ascq Massacre 49 35 Bordeaux The Cockleshell Heroes Raid 118 2 (France continued) Boulon Typhoon Crash at Boulon 80 37 Boulogne Operation ‘Wellhit’ – The Capture of Boulogne 86 1 Brittany The Search for Charybdis and Limbourne 132 48 Bruneval The Bruneval Raid 13 46 Brest The Battle for Brest 168 3 Brest Prisoner of War at Brest 172 47 Brest Saving Private Ryan Revisited 174 38 Calais Adversaries Meet Again 46 31 Chartres The Liberation of Charters 145 3 Cherbourg Cherbourg Naval Base 1940-44 146 30 Cherbourg The Battle for Cherbourg 147 2 Colmar The Colmar Pocket 125 30 Cramesnil Michael Wittmann’s Last Battle 48 46 Denée The Road Ends at Denée 51 46 Dieppe Dieppe 1942 5 1 Dunkirk Dunkirk Evacuation 3 13 Dunkirk Tank Recovery at Dunkirk 23 40 Falaise The Battle of the Falaise Pocket 8 1 Falaise Eisenhower Visits The Falaise Pocket 178 3 France Blitzkrieg in the West 68 1 France Break-Out Across the Seine 119 2 France First Shots in the West 66 1 France Following in My Father’s Footsteps 138 38 France Hitler on the Western Front 117 2 France Pluto: Pipeline Under the Ocean 116 2 France November Push to the Rhine 122 2 France Rückmarsch 133 46 France SOE and the Spindle Circuit (The Odette Story) 121 2 France ‘Spindle’ Commemorated 130 40 France Supreme Headquarters for D-Day 84 1 France The OB. West HQ at Saint-Germain-En-Laye 141 3 France The Battle of the Alps 97 1 France The French Resistance 105 1 France The Maginot Line 60 1 France U-Boat Bases in France 55 1 France The Vichy Government in France 170 2 France The Rehabilitation of the Channel Ports 178 32 France Hitler’s Diplomatic Tour in the West 178 19 France Fuhrerhauptquartier Wolfsschlucht 3 180 42 Fromelles The Lost Soldiers of Fromelles 150 3 (France continued) Granville The Granville Raid 47 37 Grenoble The Death of ACM Leigh-Mallory 39 1 Herouvillette The Herouvillette Murders 145 14 Le Havre The Capture of Le Havre 139 3 Le Paradis Massacre at Le Paradis 15 40 Le Rivier d’Allemont The Forgotten Crash 98 22 Livarot Rommel’s Accident 8 42 Lorraine Panzer Attack in Lorraine 83 30 Margival Fuhrerhauptquarter 149 20 Merville The Merville Battery 45 Years Later 68 12 Metz The Battle for Metz 161 3 Mimoyecques The Secret Weapons, V3 and V4 114 3 Meythet SOE Operation ‘Pimento’ 26 21 Moselle Americans Across Moselle 171 3 Nancy The Shelling of Patton's Nancy Headquarters 176 32 Natzweiler Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp 108 50 Normandy D-Day Sequel at Graye-sur-Mer 15 48 Normandy Isaac Bridge 107 30 Normandy Normandy 1944 1 2 Normandy Normandy Executions 85 28 Normandy Normandy Then and Now 1 18 Normandy Normandy Typhoon 51 20 Normandy Return to Normandy 5 43 Normandy RMASC Centaur – Preservation 18 50 Normandy Salvaging the D-Day Beaches 34 42 Normandy The Paratrooper and His Dog 74 28 Normandy German Prisoners in Normandy 152 46 Noyers-Bocage Typhoon Memorial Noyers-Bocage 69 20 Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane 1 45 Paris Paris 1940-1944 14 1 Pargny-sur-Saulx The exploits of an Aussie Bomber Crew 165 50 Paris The Death of Admiral Ramsay 87 44 Paris TV Pictures from Occupied Paris 39 28 Parroy Panther at Parroy 83 50 Pas de Calais The Cross-Channel Guns 29 1 Pas de Calais The V-Weapons 6 1 Pas de Calais 28cm Railway Gun at Calais 78 44 Poursollet Tragedy at Lake Poursollet 177 30 Sennecey-le-Grand SAS Tragedy at Sennecey-le-Grand 120 2 Sourdun A Costly Liberation 53 48 Luchy Show Trial at Luchy 54 50 Saint-Julien Revenge at Saint-Julien 143 52 Saint-Lo The Battle for Saint-Lo 138 3 (France continued) Singling The Battle for Singling 167 39 St Malo St Malo 1944 33 1 St Nazaire The Raid on Saint Nazaire 59 1 St Omer Wizernes Opens to the Public 97 34 St Omer Who Downed Douglas Bader? 125 2 St Marie-aux-Mines The Execution of Eddie Slovik 32 28 The Riviera The Riviera Landings 110 2 Toulon The French Navy at Toulon 76 1 Travers The Death of Joachim Peiper 40 47 Ugine Tragedy on the Eve of D-Day 143 39 Val-Ygot The V1 Site at Val-Ygot 122 48 Vercors The Battle of Vercors 174 2 Vernon Crossing the Seine at Vernon 18 41 Villers-Bocage Villers-Bocage Revisited 132 30 GERMANY Aachen The Battle for Aachen 42 1 Arolsen The International Training Service at Arolsen 159 44 Belsen Bergen-Belsen 89 1 Berchtesgaden Hermann Göring’s Vermeer 9 32 Berlin An Engineer Returns 57 49 Berlin Back to the Bunker 62 43 Berlin Hitler’s 50th Birthday Parade 64 50 Berlin Horst Wessel 75 1 Berlin Just One Crew of Many 131 22 Berlin No Longer Missing – The search for LW337 149 48 Berlin The Berlin Führerbunker 61 28 Berlin The Death of Hitler, Continued 77 48 Berlin The Reich’s Chancellery 61 1 Berlin Unification Day Berlin 1990 70 28 Berlin Banner Of Victory Over The Reichstag 148 48 Bielefeld The Bielefeld Viaduct 79 1 Bremen The Capture of Bremen 135 3 Buchenwald The Merkers and Buchenwald Treasure Troves 93 1 Buckeberg The Buckeberg Harvest Festival 160 3 Colditz Colditz 63 1 Cologne The Battle for Cologne 104 2 Cologne Pershing Versus Tiger at Elsdorf 153 32 Dachau Dachau 27 1 Egling-an-der-Paar Warburton – The Mystery Solved 121 52 (Germany continued) Fallingbostel Fallingbostel 50 50 Flensburg The Flensburg Government 128 2 Flossenbürg Flossenbürg 131 2 Frankfurt Dulag Luft 106 2 Frankfurt The Allied Capture of Frankfurt 154 35 Gardelegen The Gardelegen
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