After The Battle  |  Issue 51
LIBYA - The story of the RAF's Desert Rescue Team based at El Adem and their recoveries from the desert by Squadron Leader Zeke Zaleny Tobruk Revisited - Vasko Barbic revisits the north African battlefield. Wreck Recovery - Normandy Typhoon - The discovery of a Typhoon of No. 198 Squadron which crashed in August 1944 and burial of its pilot, Flight Sergeant Reg Thursby in November 1985. Crime in WWII - The Notorious Fort Breendonk - Achiel Rely tells the story of the infamous fortress prison at Antwerp. Preservation - Relics of the Range - Investigation of Second World War tank targets on Salisbury Plain. Readers' Investigations - Wimpey Investigation - David J. Smith investigates the crash site of Wellington BK347 which went down on April 24, 1944. It Happened Here - The Road Ends at Denée - Jean Paul Pallud researches the battle by French armoured forces in May 1940.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in After The Battle Issue 51.