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Two major feature articles appear in this bound volume — No. 21 — of After the Battle. Iwo Jima is remembered as the bloodiest battle fought by the US Marine Corps in the Pacific. Its position, midway between Saipan and Tokyo, ensured its heavy fortification and fanatical defence by the Japanese against an equally determined Marine force — 800 ships and almost a quarter of a million men. We are fortunate to have a Marine participant, Don Marshall, write our background historical narrative, as well as a detailed account of his own experiences in the battle — all illustrated with unique then and now comparison photos taken just before the island reverted to exclusive Japanese patronage resulting in no further photographic opportunities. On the other side of the world, the locations and uses of the various headquarters in Britain and France used by Dwight D. Eisenhower in his capacity as Allied Supreme Commander, are examined in depth. Included in this fascinating account is the discovery of the precise location of his advanced command post 'Sharpener' just outside Portsmouth; its positive identification another After the Battle exclusive. Other detailed coverage is given to the exhumation and reburial amidst much pomp and splendour in Canberra, of the Australian Unknown Soldier from the Great War on Armistice Day, 1993. The first British paratroop raid - the expedition by 'X' troop to demolish the Tragino viaduct in southern Italy — is studied in our unique then and now format, from its training phase in Tatton Park near Manchester to the imprisonment of the troops, after an epic escape and evasion bid, in the Apennine mountains. In the company of German veterans, Jean Paul Pallud revisited the scene of the attack by German armoured forces in Lorraine, a story which provided some remarkable comparison pictures. The imprisonment and punishment of Japanese war criminals at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo; the massacre at Kalavryta, Greece, the Western Approaches Headquarters at Liverpool which was used to conduct the Battle of the Atlantic, and the use of Shingle Street in Norfolk as a secret weapons testing area by the British, leading to spectacular stories of a German invasion repelled, are also investigated. Additional features cover the recovery and preservation of military artifacts and equipment including the discovery of the mystery U-Boat, U-534. Sensationalist rumours of a cargo of valuables and Nazi bigwigs were spectacularly disproved in a fascinating recovery off the Danish coast.
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