After The Battle #073 – Clearing The Rhine

The work of the Royal Engineers in clearing the German demolitions to the bridges crossing the Rhine from Coblenz to the North Sea. Readers’ Investigations – with the Company Commander (Charles B. MacDonald) – Patrick Hargreaves takes American historian Charles B. MacDonald back to the battlefields in the Ardennes. Wreck Recovery – Jersey Coastal Artillery Gun Recovery – Terry O’Brien’s successful recovery of a barrel from Batterie Moltke which had been dumped over the cliff at Les Landes by the Royal Engineers in 1945 – 46. Personality – The Soviet Union’s Fighter Ace – The story of Nikitovich Kozhedub, the highest scoring Soviet fighter pilot cRedited with 62 victories as told by Nikolai Bodrikhin. United Kingdom – US Army Airstrips in Britain, 1942 – 45 – Ken Wakefield describes the construction and use of improvised airstrips by American forces.

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