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WELCOME TO ISSUE 30

Welcome CONTRIBUTORS TOMGARNER

Tom has been mentally
entrenched at the Somme
interviews and researching
“They shall grow not old, as we that are let grow old. this month, conducting

his articles for our centenary
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. feature. Somehow he also
At the going down of the sun and in the morning found time to write the
Operator’s Handbook on the
We will remember them” F-111 Aardvark (page 86)
– Extract from ‘For the Fallen’ (1914), Robert Laurence Binyon
MICHAELHASKEW
century ago this year, the poignancy to the commemorations This issue Mike takes to the
bloodiest campaign of and acts of remembrance being skies above China during the
A World War I erupted in shared around the globe – this Second Sino-Japanese War
northern France. After starting issue is our small contribution. (1937-45), with the famous
with the worst single day in Flying Tigers. Find out how
British military history, it would these mercenary American
pilots dominated the skies,
rage for nearly five months, with
over a million casualties. against all the odds, over on
page 64.
Though in the UK the tragedy
of the first day and those that MIGUELMIRANDA
followed are still keenly felt,
In the wake of the collapse
France, Germany, and countries of the USSR, Armenia
from all over the Commonwealth
and Azerbaijan went to
were no less deeply affected. war over the Nagorno-
The memories and Tim Williamson Karabakh region. As Miguel
experiences of the Somme are Editor investigates this issue, it’s
important to world history, not a conlict that is still just
just British, and this year’s EMAIL as heated as it was over 26
centenary adds even more frontline@imagine-publishing.co.uk years ago (page 76).
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The grave of an ‘Unknown British
Soldier’ photographed near
Thiepval, September 1916

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