Patrolling outside the Tobruk wire
19th August 1941: A concealed observation group is discovered by the Germans but survives attempts to dislodge them
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RAF bombing off target
18th August 1941: A groundbreaking statistical analysis reveals that bombs rarely hit the target
US supply ship sunk by U-boat
17th August 1941: As the Battle of the Atlantic intensifies, three men out of twenty-seven survive an ordeal in the Atalantic, drifting on an open raft
'MI5: British Security Service Operations'
The MI5 view of Josef Jakobs - they gave him his cover name and knew he was about to arrive
Welcome to a Stammlager VIIA
16th August 1941: British troops begin to fill up Moosburg, Stalag 7A, a large camp already familair to French POWS, soon to be familiar to American POWs
Last Execution in the Tower of London
15th August 1941: German Spy Josef Jakobs is shot by firing squad
Food rationing concentrates the mind in Britain
14th August 1941 : The new national obsession overtakes the weather as the primary topic of conversation
Russia's neutrality pact with Japan
13th August 1941: Stalin's move paves the way for Japan's war with USA
HMS Picotee lost without trace
12th August 1941: A corvette and her 66 crew suddenly disappears
The Atlantic Charter - a declaration of goals
11 August 1941: But there is tension between UK and USA under the surface