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Operation Dragoon
From 28 November to 1 December 1943, the ‘Big Three’ – Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin – sat around a grand table at the USSR’s Embassy in Tehran, Iran. For several days, they discussed plans to turn the tide of the war against the Axis. The British
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The Para’s Loadout
Jumping from an aircraft into battle is a challenging prospect, made even more hair-raising by the fault-prone nature of early parachutes. The ‘Roman Candle’ was not uncommon during training, whereby a chute would deploy successfully but could not in
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Spitfire Building A Legend
Read how after 1940, intense design upgrades and modifications turned Britain’s plucky defender into a dominant, global war-winner ON SALE 4 JULY ■