Who was the silent saboteur who struck swiftly and effectively against the German occupiers, and who proved as much of a headache to the carefully organised French Resistance as he did to the local Nazi officer? He was known as The Fox, but soon he would be tamed. His one-man war would become very different… […]
Bob Knowles wanted action so he joined the RAF and became a pilot. But instead of getting into the thick of the fighting, he was packed off to Australia to train other pilots instead. It didn’t seem like it would be his kind of war at all, but Australia is a long way off and […]
As the German self-propelled guns moved through the snowstorm, thin lines began to appear beneath them and an ominous cracking sound made itself heard. They were on a frozen lake! The panic-stricken crews bailed out as the metal monsters slid through the ice into the waters below. The enemy machines had been led to their […]
Called “Ratso” by everybody, Private John Ratsey more than lived up to his nickname. He was lazy and work-shy, and not averse to a little bit of petty theft if he was sure he could get away with it. If he was such a disreputable character, why then was Sergeant Jamie Taylor trying to ensure […]
Newly transferred to a desert reconnaissance group, Jim Collingwood was determined to prove he was good enough to serve with the experienced men around him. And on his first patrol he did just that, saving the others from an enemy ambush that could have wiped them all out. But what no-one else in the unit […]
Tom Picalli’s boast was that he could fly any type of plane, so it wasn’t long before he was flying Dakotas for the American Air Force. But he wasn’t boasting now, as he flew over enemy‑held Sicily, for Tom had never been so scared in all his life. Flak was bursting all around his aircraft […]
To walk down the street back home and be ignored or insulted isn’t pleasant. But that’s what happened to Lieutenant Phil Wilson – all because a senior officer had lied about Phil’s part in a skirmish out in Italy during the Second World War. For a while, Phil took it very badly, feeling like a […]
THE PLACE – The Atlantic Ocean. THE TIME – 1944-45. The Second World War. THE RIVALS – Cousins. One a sailor and one an airman. THE TARGETS – German U-Boats. As many as they could sink in their own ways. THE PRIZE – A mighty claymore which had been in the family for generations. Now […]
Before the war, Lieutenant Steve Pitt had been a fisherman off the east coast of England. The boat-handling skills he had learned then were perfect training for what he was doing now — leading hit-and-run raids from the sea to strike at the southern defences of Nazi-held Europe. But hard and dangerous as his days […]
We call then the Royal Engineers but they began as the Royal Sappers and Miners. And one of their original jobs was to dig ‘saps’ – dark, dangerous tunnels which stretched far under enemy lines. Pack a picked spot with explosives and bang went a target in a spectacular explosion. They were still practising this […]
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