After The Battle Magazine Issue 132 Back Issue

KING HÅKON RETURNS - Jean Paul Pallud tells the story of the Norwegian King who withdrew to Great Britain on June 7, 1940 following the German invasion of his country. United States Patton's Desert Training Center - In March 1942 the US Army established the Desert Training Center (DTC) to prepare its troops for desert warfare against the German Afrikorps in North Africa. This story is expertly described by Francis Blake, Dwain Oliver and Lieutenant Colonel John Shaw Lynch. It Happened Here Villers-Bocage Revisited - In 1999 we published Villers-Bocage Through the Lens of the German War Photographer. In the years since then, Daniel has not only gained contact with new veterans of the battle and uncovered much additional information but also found new photographs pertaining to this battle. Italy Tucker's Panthers - Jeffrey Plowman and Perry Rowe tell how on April 15, 1945, the 2nd New Zealand Division launched an attack from its bridgehead across the Sillaro river near Sesto Imolese in northern Italy. Wreck Discovery The Search for Charybdis and Limbourne - On the night of October 22/23, 1943, a Royal Navy flotilla of one light cruiser and six destroyers chasing a German blockade-running merchant ship in the Channel under Operation 'Tunnel' was met by the German merchantman's escorting force of five E-Boats. In the ensuing encounter two of the British ships - the cruiser Charybdis and the destroyer Limbourne - were hit by torpedoes.