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After The Battle, Issue 51

The first feature in this issue concerns Libya and is split into two articles.  The first, The Desert Rescue Team, looks at the last exercise by the RAF Desert Rescue Team in 1969 before its demise in 1970 when British forces were banished from Libya.  During their operations they discovered many wartime wrecks including that of the B-24 Liberator “Lady Be Good” covered in After The Battle no. 25.  The second article on the Libya theme is Tobruk Revisited.  This fascinating article recounts the experiences of an oil engineer working around Tobruk in 1981 during the construction of an oil terminal.  This looks at the hazards faced working in the area where, as well as wartime relics, a vast amount of “live” munitions abound.  Additional dangers arise from the many un-cleared and inadequately mapped minefields.

The second article written in the “Wreck Recovery” format and titled Normandy Typhoon tells of the efforts to recover the remains of Flight Sergeant Reginald Thursby and the wreckage of his aircraft which crashed after being hit by enemy fire in the Falaise area.

The most notorious place in Belgium during the Nazi occupation was undoubtedly Fort Breendonk, the southernmost of the Antwerp defences built during the early part of the century.  Conveniently situated at the intersection of important roads, the fort was taken over by the Germans in 1940 as a reception camp (Auffangslager) from where civilian prisoners were likely to be sent elsewhere.  The Notorious Fort Breendonk examines the regime that was instilled by the Germans and the even more reviled Belgian SS volunteers.  This article is very well illustrated in the “Then and Now” photography format.

Relics Of The Range is a short feature in the “Preservation” format looking at some of the Second World War tanks unearthed in 1985 from the Army’s firing range on Salisbury plain.  These included Churchills, Shermans and a Cromwell.

Wimpey Investigation records the plight of Wellington BK 347 that crashed into a Yorkshire mountainside, where remnants still remain, on April 24^th 1944.

The final article in this issue, The Road Ends At Denée, gives a detailed account of one of the first armoured battles of the Second World War.  The French 1ere DCR with between 160 – 180 tanks came up against the German 5^th and 7^th Panzer Divisions with some 500 tanks between them on the 14^th and 15^th May 1940.  This detailed account is well illustrated with photographs taken immediately after the battle.

In all 54 pages of fascinating reading with many photographs on the "Then and Now" theme for which this publication is famous.

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