During the Great War of 1914-1918 Britain and Japan were firm allies, but in this struggle British diplomacy has to meet a Japanese Government...
One of the twelve enemy aircraft brought down while raiding this country on July 24 was an American dive bomber, a Chance Voight 156, which had...
On July 25th our defences accounted for 28 German raiders, with the loss of only five of our fighters, and this was no isolated achievement: on...
In quality our airmen easily excel the Nazis, and there is good reason to believe that our machines are far better than any that Germany has yet...
“Free French†Services in England It is thought that one effect of the “Meknes†outrage will be to gain new recruits for the French...
In a Mayfair house, 114, Park Street, W. I, Dr. Benes is setting up the machinery of the Provisional Czechoslovak Government, formally recognized...
What was described as the R.A.F's finest triumph was won over. Dover Harbour on July 29, when an attack by wave after wave of Junkers and...
There are times when one finds oneself eye witnessing history, yet not fully realizing the implication of what one saw at the time. Such an...
War came in earnest for the Allies in May 1940, when Hitler invaded France, striking hardest where least expected. General Maurice Gamelin, the...
Finland beat off a Soviet Invasion, but the Norwegians facing a better equipped. more formidable foe in the Germans could not hold out....
Wartime Britain was surprisingly cosmopolitan: French sailors, bush-hatted Australian soldiers and exuberant GI's were familiar figures on the...
U-534 was sunk in the last significant engagement of the Battle of the Atlantic even though the captain (a Nazi party member) new the war was lost...
It was said in the United States after Pearl Harbour that Japanese workmen near the naval base had cut huge arrows in the fields to guide Japanese...
"We Never Closed" was the proud boast of London's tiny Windmill Theatre a West End show place that stayed open through the worst of the Blitz....
Beetroot juice for lipstick and winter coats fashioned from curtain material... Flowerbeds dug up to plant potatoes and chickens kept on the...
So said General Smuts on July 21, broadcasting to Britain, and the United States. "Nothing that has happened so far in the war justifies the...
Thirteen seamen who, after their ship had been sunk by a U-boat, withstood six days of privation on a raft have added another page of dogged...
Just as Napoleon at Boulogne threatened an invasion of England 136 years ago, so today Hitler stands on that same shore, threatening,...
“Give us your aluminium" cried Lord Beaverbrook, Minister for Aircraft Production, to the women of Britain, "and we will turn your pots and pans...
The dramatic evacuation of the Czechoslovakian Army from France has been successfully completed by the arrival in England of the final contingent,...