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After The Battle, Issue 18

The main feature of this issue is The Battle For San Pietro and this covers the first 18 pages.  San Pietro was important for the observation it gave of the valley that carried Route 6 to Cassino.  The German determination to hold San Pietro made inevitable one of the most bitter fights in southern Italy and by early December 1943, two regiments of the 29^th Panzer Grenadier Division were in position.  The German defences, organised in depth, extended from the orchard-covered terraces east of San Pietro and across the mile-wide valley west to Monte Lungo.  Two battalions of the 15^th Panzer Grenadier regiment held the main line of resistance behind an outpost line of mutually-supporting pill boxes staggered in depth.  This is a well researched and detailed account of the battle being well illustrated with photographs (many in the “Then and Now” format), maps and sketches and is chaptered as follows:

Reconnaissance

The First Attack

The Second Attack

The Tank Attack

The Final Attack

San Pietro Today

The following short three-page article, Mosquito Film Stars, looks at the acquirement of the Mosquito aircraft used in the 1963 film 633 Squadron; the last time that five Mosquitos would be seen flying together.

An extensive eight-page article in the “Wreck Discovery” format follows.  The Wartime Solomons – Thirty Years After looks at the variety of wrecks, Japanese and American, to be fond littering the islands.  A variety of armour, planes, guns and ships are examined on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Mono, Ballalae and several other islands.  A fascinating article with an excellent centre-page colour spread of a number of the wrecks.

Both the First and Second World Wars produced their share of superlatives – for having something bigger or greater than before – and each war was able to claim the largest explosion, at the time, in the United Kingdom.  Largest Wartime Explosions looks at the cause and outcome of the Silvertown (London) explosion in January 1917 and the explosion at RAF Fauld in 1944.  A very good use of the “Then and Now” format of illustrations are used in this article.

Another very well researched and detailed article follows; Crossing The Seine At Vernon.  This details the efforts of the first British units to cross the river Seine following the German retreat after their defeat in the Falaise pocket.

The final article in this issue written in the “Preservation” format, RMASC Centaur, details the recovery effort and preservation of a Centaur that was disabled by mortar fire about half a mile inland from the Normandy invasion beach at Lion-Sur-Mer shortly after the initial landings on 6^th June.

Another 54 pages of fascinating reading from this respected publication.  Well illustrated throughout with black and white photographs many following the familiar “Then and Now” theme.

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