The War Illustrated - Volume 9
Below are some articles from this famous World War Two magazine. Some articles have already been added, others will be added in the future.
This is the index of volume 9, see for other volumes our volume index.
Volume 9 - No. 206 - May 11, 1945
- In the Wake of the Victors
- The Battle Fronts
- The War at Sea
- Australian Pathfinders in New Guinea Waters
- Roosevelt, a Tribute
- Scandinavia's Post-War Position and Policy
- Views & Reviews
- I Was There! - The Germans Cringed to Us in Captured Hanover
- I Was There! - I Saw World's Biggest Armament Plant in Ruins
- I Was There! - How I Helped to Clear Messina's Depth Charges
- I Was There! - We Are the Royal Navy's Pioneer Rocketeers
- Our Diary of the War
- The War in the Air
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 207 - May 25, 1945
- V Day & The War Illustrated
- My Visit to Wartime Holland
- The Battle Fronts
- The War at Sea
- Dramatic Last Days of the War in the West
- Fleet Air Arm Service Under the Red Ensign
- Views & Reviews
- Tremendous Struggle of the Heroic Netherlands
- I Was There! - How East and West Met at Torgau on the Elbe
- I Was There! - 'The Target, Gentlemen, is Berchtesgaden!'
- I Was There! - Stalingrad Banners Waved on Berlin Hills
- I Was There! - I Went With the Green Berets to Osnabruck
- Our Diary of the War
- The War in the Air
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 208 - June 8, 1945
- The Battle Fronts
- Along the Crowded Roads of War
- The War at Sea
- Mr. Churchill Retreads the Path to Victory
- Views & Reviews
- I Was There! - Montgomery's Own Story of the Great Surrender
- I Was There! - Keitel Was Furious As He Signed in Berlin
- I Was There! - I Was in Germany's Dead Capital on May 9
- I Was There! - I Saw Joyous London Blaze Up on V Day Eve
- I Was There! - In the Nightmare City of Rangoon Today
- Our Diary of the War
- The War in the Air
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 209 - June 22, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- The Problem of Trieste - Port of Contention
- How the P.O.W. Problem is Being Solved
- Views & Reviews
- Japan May Be Seared Out of the War by Fire
- Now It Can Be Told! - 'Operation Pluto'
- I Was There! - How Germany's Vaunted Underwater Navy Died
- I Was There! - We Found a U-Boat Nest in Bergen Harbour
- I Was There! - Blasted for Hours Off the Coast of Japan
- I Was There! - We Sent a Jap 'Island' to the Bed of the Sea
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 210 - July 6, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- Along the Terrible Trail that Led to Wewak
- Men of Destiny Who Govern Occupied Germany
- Montgomery to the Germans
- Now It Can Be Told! - 'Operation Fido': Beating Airfield Fog
- Now It Can Be Told! - War Factory Under Houses of Parliament
- Now It Can Be Told! - Secrets of London's Mystery Citadel
- Now It Can Be Told! - How Britain's Gold was Shipped Abroad
- Eisenhower: the Man Behind the Name
- Views & Reviews
- Facts Behind the Syria-and-Lebanon Dispute
- I Was There! - Today Where Our Invasion of Europe Began
- I Was There! - I Saw Norway in the Hour of Her Greatest Joy
- I Was There! - We Blockaded the Japs Escaping from Ramree
- I Was There! - Tail of a Fantasic Procession in Germany
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 211 - July 20, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- How Two Sea-Queens Ran the Gauntlet of War
- Now It Can Be Told! - Phantom Patrols: G.H.Q. Liaison Regiment
- Secret Service Agents Helped to Win the War
- Views & Reviews
- What Significance has Bornholm to Russia?
- What the Wavell Plan Means to India
- I Was There! - It's Hard Not to Fraternize Now Out There
- I Was There! - Courage That Won Even the Enemy's Praise
- I Was There! - On the Road Home With 8th Army Leave Party
- I Was There! - I Flew to Truk with First Wave of Avengers
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 212 - August 3, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- 82 Days that Lost the War for Japan
- Now It Can Be Told! - How We Won the Battle of the Sea-Mines
- Now It Can Be Told! - Our "Met" Men Fought Germans in the Arctic
- New Zealand's Fighting Ships and Men at War
- Views & Reviews
- Non-Fighting Heroes at the Front in China
- I Was There! - Cossacks Welcomed Us as We Entered Berlin
- I Was There! - I Visit Lübbecke - Germany's New 'Capital'
- I Was There! - We Lay on the Sea-Bed - All Lights Out
- I Was There! - How the Avengers Saved Our Crippled Carrier
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 213 - August 17, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- The Royal Navy's Big Debt to the 'Wavy Navy'
- Now It Can Be Told! - British Maquis Were Ready For Invaders
- Now It Can Be Told! - Last Glorious Fight of the Glowworm
- Now It Can Be Told! - We Ferried Invasion Trains to France
- 'Home Is the Sailor, Home From Sea'
- Views & Reviews
- Holland Now Faces Vast Task of Rebuilding
- I Was There! - Winged 'King's Messengers' Go Home Again
- I Was There! - We Settled a Jap Cruiser in Malacca Straits
- I Was There! - At the Receiving End of the Jungle Supplies
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 214 - August 31, 1945
- Russia Smashes In to End the War With Japan
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- Thoughts on the Peace of Potsdam
- Now It Can Be Told! - How Royal Marines Hacked a Base From Jungle
- Now It Can Be Told! - Goebbels Tried to Make Peace Terms
- San Francisco Background to World-Wide Peace
- Views & Reviews
- Atomic Bomb: World's Most Terrifying Weapon
- I Was There! - We Dropped the First Atomic Bomb On Japan
- I Was There! - I Saw the Glider Pilot Survivors on Parade
- I Was There! - Toil and Trouble I Saw in the 'New' Germany
- I Was There! - We Christened Our Isle with Salts and Rum
- I Was There! - Western Desert Memory of the 8th Army Men
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 215 - September 14, 1945
- Is This The End Of War?
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- Radar Helped the Army Gunners to Beat the Blitz
- Now It Can Be Told! - How the Navy's Phantom Fleet Hoaxed the Hun
- Now It Can Be Told! - This Was Hitler's Amazing Plan for Britain
- Problems of Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia
- Views & Reviews
- Holland's Gratitude
- Royal Signals Have the Gloves Off in Germany
- I Was There! - We Had a Night Without Parallel in London
- I Was There! - The Welcome We Gave to Lambeth's Own Monty
- I Was There! - Two 'Grand Old Cabs' with the Pacific Fleet
- I Was There! - Mob Law and Gangsters in the Italy of Today
- Our Diary of the War
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 216 - September 28, 1945
- With Our Armies Today
- With Our Navies Today
- Tracing Millions of Europe's Lost Families
- Crowning Efforts of the Australians in Borneo
- Writhings of Japan in the Last Days of Defeat
- Views & Reviews
- Now It Can Be Told! - Concealed Compasses For R.A.F. Crews
- Now It Can Be Told! - Last Great Battle of the Submarine Shark
- Now It Can Be Told! - 1940 Secret Weapon was a Catapult
- Now It Can Be Told! - Divers Prepared Way for the D-Day Invasion
- Now It Can Be Told! - Naval Commandos Sank Ships at Singapore
- In Cold Blood They Triumphed Over Nazi Mines
- I Was There! - I Visited the First City to be Atomic Bombed
- I Was There! - How Defeat Came Home to the People of Japan
- I Was There! - I Saw 11 Japs Hand Over Their Dead Empire
- I Was There! - I Dropped-in on Goering and his Fellow Criminals
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 217 - October 12, 1945
- With Our Soliders Today
- With Our Sailors Today
- How Radar Enabled Us to Win the War at Sea
- Must Britain Go Short to Rebuilt Exports?
- Views & Reviews
- Now It Can Be Told! - 2,000 Soldiers Helped to Save London's Water
- Now It Can Be Told! - Daring Exploits of Midget Submarine X.24
- Now It Can Be Told! - Rescued After Five Months of Adventure
- German Atomic Bomb Research was Sabotaged
- I Was There! - Battle of Britain Pilots in the Air Again
- I Was There! - I Saw the First 4-Powers Parade in Berlin
- I Was There! - Sea-Bed Grave for Hitler's Poison Gas
- I Was There! - On My Last Strange Trail to Civvy Street
- With Our Airmen Today
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 218 - October 26, 1945
- Are We in Japan for Long?
- Great Deeds of Little Ships
- Hard-Worked British Minesweepers Still Busy
- Now It Can Be Told! - Man-Made Islands and Floating Bridges
- Now It Can Be Told! - Singapore Re-occupation Planned in 1942
- Now It Can Be Told! - The Night That London's Tower Was Bombed
- Our Swimming Tanks Took Them by Surprise!
- The Fateful Road to Rome
- More Bones of Contention in Central Europe!
- I Was There! - We Toiled 17 Hours a Day in Siamese Jungle
- I Was There! - Smiling Men of Nagoya Plan a Jap Come-Back
- I Was There! - 'We Thought This Day Would Never Come'
- I Was There! - I Was a Prisoner Where Men Died Like Flies
- R.A.F. to Fly Them Home
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 219 - November 9, 1945
- This Holland Needs Our Help
- What We Escaped in 1940
- How the Barham was Lost
- The Greatest Mopping-Up Operation in History
- When London's Docks Visited the Clyde
- Our Lightships in the War
- Now It Can Be Told! - 'Ghost' Forts Sent to Crash on Heligoland
- Now It Can Be Told! - Human Minesweepers and Divers of the R.N.
- Now It Can Be Told! - Monty's D-Day Bluff Foxed the Germans
- Will Atomic Weapons Cancel Themselves Out?
- I Was There! - I Was in Java's Semi-Beleaguered Capital
- I Was There! - Pans and Kettles from Sky-Battle Veterans
- I Was There! - I Walked Into a Junkyard and Found Green Gold
- I Was There! - R.A.F. Dinghies in Action on a Flooded Airfield
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 220 - November 23, 1945
- Aftermath in Central Europe
- With Montgomery from D-Day to V-Day
- What of the Merchant Navy's Future?
- Laurels for Dover: Chief of the Cinque Ports
- The Epic Story of Arnhem Told Afresh
- "By Air to Battle"
- Now It Can Be Told! - Tanks That Turn Night Into Local Day
- Now It Can Be Told! - Psychological Warfare Dept. In Action
- Now It Can Be Told! - Navy's Little Ships Fought 780 Actions
- Now It Can Be Told! - Whalers That The Nazis Could Not Catch
- I Was There! - I Saw the Navy 'Killing' Washed-Up Mines
- I Was There! - A Commando's Farewell to His Green Beret
- I Was There! - We Brought Dido and Her Precious Gold to Egypt
- I Was There! - Tricked by the Royal Navy's Invisible Ships
- How R.A.F. Learn Radar Secrets
- Editor's Postscript
Volume 9 - No. 221 - December 7, 1945
- Why Do We Need Dollars?
- Americans' S.O.S. on D-Day
- When Sea Mines Come Ashore
- How Four-Footed Warriors Helped Us to Win
- Now It Can Be Told! - Shell That 'Thinks' Beat The Flying Bomb
- Now It Can Be Told! - Civilian Scientist Flew in Air Fighters
- If Epidemics Cross the Channel this Winter
- Is There Any Hope for the Germans?
- R.A.F. 'Week-End' Pilots Go Back to Peace
- I Was There! - I Was in Surabaya When the Shooting Began
- I Was There! - We Cheered at London's First Peace Pageant
- I Was There! - When the Dead of Two Wars Were 'Remembered'
- I Was There! - Four Nazi Flags Which Were to Fly Over London
- My Flying Visit to H.M.S. Battler
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 222 - December 21, 1945
- Grasping the Palestine Nettle
- Our Army Now Fights for Law and Order
- A Keel is Laid
- Has the World Quite Finished With Hitler?
- British Brains and Pluck Against German Cunning
- "Battle of the Narrow Seas"
- Now It Can Be Told! - Nail Gun Speeds Underwater Salvage
- Now It Can Be Told! - How 'Hangman' Heydrich Met His End
- Now It Can Be Told! - London's Petrol Was a Luftwaffe Target
- Now It Can Be Told! - Naval Divers Cut Jap Telephone Cables
- Now It Can Be Told! - Combined Ops Had 6-lb. Machine-Carbine
- I Was There! - Palestine Police are the Bravest Men I Know
- I Was There! - I Watched at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg
- I Was There! - Training with the B.A.O.R. at a Luxury Camp
- I Was There! - Even the High-Ups in Japan Must Scrounge to Eat
- Britain's Biggest Air Squadron
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 223 - January 4, 1946
- What the Load Means to Britain
- New Zealanders with a Fine War Record
- Hunting a U-Boat to Death
- Operation Deadlight: Sinking the U-boat Fleet
- Now It Can Be Told! - Ceramic's Three-Year Mystery Cleared Up
- Now It Can Be Told! - The Navy Landed 'Cloak and Dagger' Men
- Now It Can Be Told! - Whitehall's Wireless Link With the War
- Our Mighty Switch from Tanks to Peacetime Cars
- "War Below Zero"
- How Much Has U.N.R.R.A. Actually Achieved
- I Was There! - Hitler's Ex-Soldiers Cold-Shouldered in Berlin
- I Was There! - I Escaped from the Terror of a Java Jungle
- I Was There! - I Met 'Pistol Packin' Momma' at Nuremberg
- I Was There! - Chasing Fish With the Navy's Underwater 'Ear'
- I Was There! - The Vampire Screamed Over Our Flight Deck
- I Was There! - We Stoked an Escape Ship from Singapore
- Will the Atom Bomb Bring Peace?
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 224 - January 16, 1946
- What is Happening in Java?
- The Never-to-be-Forgotten Army
- Most Decisive Sea Battle of the War
- Now It Can Be Told! - British Naval Officer Who Led Maquis
- Now It Can Be Told! - Our Most Effective Underwater Explosiv
- Now It Can Be Told! - 'Lost' JU 88 Held Vital Radar Secrets
- There is No Peace for Britain's Lifeboats
- The Greatness of Dunkirk Revealed
- Teapot Revolution Maintained the Troops' Morale
- Foreign Ministers in Agreement at Moscow
- I Was There! - How Two V.C.s Were Won Under a Jap Cruiser
- I Was There! - In Poland I Saw a Grim Battle for Life
- I Was There! - At the End of the World's Longest Ocean Hop
- From Rotterdam to Hiroshima
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 225 - February 1, 1946
- What of the Mediterranean's Future?
- America's Debt to Britain and Russia
- Prize Money: The Great Share-Our
- How Shall We Use War Inventions for Peace?
- Now It Can Be Told! - D-Day Rehearsal at Cambridge University
- Now It Can Be Told! - Secret Mine 'Brain' Made by a Wren Team
- Now It Can Be Told! - How H.M.S. Exeter Fought Her Last Battle
- Roger Keyes: The Passing of a Great Sailor
- Cockle Commandos of the Royal Marines
- The Best of "Yank"
- Allied Front-Line Planes That Flew Unarmed
- I Was There! - Our Welcome Home to Nazi-Ravaged Alderney
- I Was There! - I Met British Detectives in Khaki in Berlin
- I Was There! - Sapper's Great Battle of the Rhine Bridges
- I Was There! - They Teach Them All the Smugglers' Tricks
- The R.A.F. in War and Peace
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 226 - February 15, 1946
- Great Deeds of the Army Commandos
- Last Moments at Singapore
- How the "Royal Oak" Was Sunk
- V-Force Acted as the Fourteenth Army's Eyes
- Now It Can Be Told! - Jap Praise for the Gallant 'Stronghold'
- Now It Can Be Told! - Grand Work of Allied Officers in Siam
- Now It Can Be Told! - Secrets of the Navy's Parachute Lifeboat
- Now It Can Be Told! - The Army Camouflaged the Navy's Ships
- First United Nations Assembly Gets to Work
- The Ordeal of Cassino
- How Will the Ministry of Labour Find Me a Job?
- I Was There! - Our Great Break-Out from Stalag Luft III
- I Was There! - The Germans Now Raise Their Hats To Us!
- I Was There! - Our Underground Citadel Built for 10,000
- When Our Airmen Come to Earth
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 227 - March 1, 1946
- Grim Drama of Justice at Nuremberg
- Northern Ireland's Share in Victory
- Our Navies in the Great Change-Over
- Major Mysteries of the Second Great War
- Now It Can Be Told! - Old Locos Were Fighters' 'Guinea Pigs'
- Now It Can Be Told! - Bomber Command and the War in the Ether
- "Burmese Outpost"
- Our Firemen Carry War Methods Into Peace
- I Was There! - When The German Guns First Shelled Dover
- I Was There! - Back to Civvy Street via H.M.S. Flycatcher
- I Was There! - I Saw the Burned-Out Heart of Frankfort
- I Was There! - Our Tunnel from Prison Camp to Freedom
- When Aircraft Travel Faster than Sound
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 228 - March 15, 1946
- Australia's Heroic 'Gull Force'
- This is Monty's New Job
- How We Beat the German Bid to Block Suez
- Now It Can Be Told! - Falmouth Was U.S. Navy Invasion Base
- Now It Can Be Told! - The Night Before The Normandy D-Day
- Now It Can Be Told! - Secret 'War Effort' Charts Are Revealed
- Fleet Air Arm Officers on Load to the R.A.F.
- "The Challenge of Red China"
- Victims of the Inhuman Doctors of Dachau
- I Was There! - My Last Moments in H.M.S. Prince of Wales
- I Was There! - How I Saved R.A.F. Pilots from the Gestapo
- Blazing New Trails for Air Travel
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 229 - March 29, 1946
- World's Worst Journey is Ended
- Fine Record of Our Colonial Troops from Africa
- Turkey's Wartime Aid to the Allies
- Limbless Ex-Serviceman Now Walk - and Work
- Now It Can Be Told! - How Radar Helped Our Field Artillery
- "Carrier War"
- Lawrence at Nuremberg: A Great Judge in Action
- I Was There! - I Fought With the Grenadier Guards at Furnes
- I Was There! - I Died at Buchenwald on Friday the 13th
- I Was There! - Smuggled Into Europe's Last Fascist Fortress
- Shall We See an International Air Force?
- The Editor Looks Back
Volume 9 - No. 230 - April 12, 1946
- How UNO will Police the World
- Empire Armies Fought in Four Continents
- Strange Story of H.M.S. Habbakuk
- The Unarmed Army That Went Valiantly to War
- How Near to Winning Were the Germans?
- Odyssey of a Brigadier
- How London River's Salvage Men Beat the Blitz
- I Was There! - How We of the Naval C.S. Handled the Convoys
- I Was There! - I Saw Air-Raid Shelters Crumple and Collapse
- I Was There! - South Africa as the British Serviceman Saw It
- Would Bombs Alone have Beaten Germany?