| Picture Stories |
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The Tough of the Track -
Alf Tupper, the runner know as the Tough
of the track was heading for the holiday town of
Portsea where he was to take part in an
invitation mile race. Alf was using the journey
as a training run....... |
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Figaro! -
Figaro ze bandit's out for the loot - but he
just gets ze order of ze boot! |
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A Man Called Vassilios -
In July 1943 during the Second World War,
Gunner D.C. Perkins a New Zealander was landing
in German occupied Crete. Perkins had escaped
from the island only a year before and now, after
a course in sabotage and guerilla warfare he was
returning to hel pa British agent, Major Fielding. |
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The Knight Of The Hammer -
Serving the good causes of a society of
knight errants, former blacksmith Sir Chell
Puddock and his squire, Jack Jinks, were
journeying to London when they encountered a
strangely mounted adversary. |
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When Knight Were Bold -
Famous medieval sorties of knights |
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A Lesson For The Hun -
During the First World War a favourite target
for the German raiding parties was the Uganda
railway, which run through British East Africa
near the border with German territory. A
passenger on this line on one occasion was white
hunter Saul Sands accompanied by his educated gun-bearer,
Fundi. |
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The Big Game Boys -
Stories of Big Game Hunters |
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Sammy Stops The Clock -
In 1895 the late, great W.C. Grieg broke the
clock above the Westshire County Cricket Club
pavilion with a mighty six hit, a feat never
repeated despite the fact that Greig left 10,000
pounds in his will to the next man to do it. |
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Tubby's Two-Ton Terror -
Private "Tubby" Entwhistle was
having a fairly peaceful time fighting the Japs
in Burma during the Second World War....until he
was adopted by a baby elephant. From then on his
deadliest enemies weren't the Japs, but the
officers and N.C.O's of his own unit. It was the
battalion's rest day and peace perfect peace had
settled on the camp. |
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Mascots if the Fighting Forces -
A strange selection of animals |
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Killer Kennedy R.N. -
A flotilla of three British motor torpedo
boats, led by Lieutenant Commander "Killer"
Kennedy had sighted German shipping of the coast
of occupied Holland in 1943. Now they swept down
on their prey a freighter escorted by two E-boats. |
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| Puzzle Away A Rainy Day |
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Morgyn The Mighty -
Morgyn The Mighty, the strongest man in the
world was traveling through the dense Burmese
jungle when he saw a native boy being attacked by
a python. Morgyn went to his rescue. |
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| Summer Sports Quiz |
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An Iron Cross For Braddock -
Sergeant Matt Braddock V.C., Britain's
greatest pilot of the Second World War, was
taking part in a Spitfire strike against a German-held
river bridge in the Western Desert in 1943. |
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Cattle Drive -
Board Game |
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