Australian
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'A.I.F. News' -
For Australians forces serving in North Africa |
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Armed Forces - Pacific |
'Guinea Gold' -
Published in Port Moresby for Australians serving
and fighting in New Guinea against the Japanese.
American edition of 'Guinea Gold' also
produced for US troops and flown daily to Buna, Gona and Milne Bay |
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Army - Mediterranean |
'Tobruk Truth' -
Newspaper produced in February 1941. Described as
the father of Desert papers. Started by and
edited by Australian Bill Williams, early copies
printed on the back of captured Italian army
forms (latter information supplied by his
great-nephew Tim Condron, 24/9/04) |
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British |
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Air Force |
'Royal Air Force'
- Official fortnightly magazine |
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Air Force |
 'TEE
EMM' - for the RAF. First copy issued April 1941.
Introduced Pilot Officer Prune [who did everything wrong] and
also introduced the Order of the Irremovable Digit (thanks to
David Hamilton. Click this and following images for enlargements). |
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Air Force |
 'Evidence
in Camera' - not exactly a service magazine in the usual
meaning of the word, but it was a regular RAF issue (with
thanks to David Hamilton - "I got them from my father who was
RAF, and RNAS in WW1) |
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Air Force -
Mediterranean |
'Royal Air Force Journal,
Middle East Edition' - Number 20 by 27th
February 1943 |
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Armed Forces |
'Blighty'
- Published in London from
late 1940. On sale to the public but distributed
free to British forces abroad including the Royal
Navy |
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Armed forces - Africa |
'Jambo, Magazine for the
Services in East Africa', East Africa Command
magazine for all three services and for East
African troops serving outside the Command.
Published in Nairobi, Kenya. Price 50 cents.
Still in circulation February 1944 |
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Armed forces - Africa |
'Review'
- East Africa Command.
More serious fortnightly publication which
included advertising to offset production costs |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'Ceylon
Review, Ceylon's Weekly Journal for the Royal
Navy, Army, R.A.F, Merchant Navy and Civil Defence Services'.
Initiated in late 1942 by Admiral
Sir Geoffrey Layton, C-in-C Ceylon (Shri Lanka).
No 15 Vol V by October 7 1944 |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'Contact'
- Newspaper
published fortnightly for British servicemen in
India and Ceylon. Vol 2, No 72 by 12 April 1945 |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'Phoenix'
- South East Asia theatre |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'SEAC, The Services
Newspaper of South East Asia Command'.
The editor, 2nd Lt Frank Owen late editor of the
London 'Evening Standard' was given
complete editorial freedom by Admiral
Mountbatten, SEAC C-in-C. Printed by 'The
Statesman' in Calcutta. Edition No 291 of
Thursday 26 October 1944 was priced at One Anna
and headlined the Battles of Leyte Gulf that
started the previous Monday. Special SEAC edition
included 'Laugh with Seac' |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'Victory, Service Copy',
Indian Command weekly magazine,
Price 4 Annas |
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Armed Forces -
Mediterranean |
'Parade'
- Middle East theatre
weekly |
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Armed Forces -
Mediterranean |
'Parade, Middle East
Weekly', Price 15 mills, 20 mills in
Palestine. First published in Cairo, Egypt August
1940 and later published in Arabic, Greek, Polish
and Turkish. Edition No 46 Vol 4 by June 28 1941. The
Christmas Number dated December 18 1943 had
reached No 175, Vol 14. The cover page also
indicates the wide circulation (and range of
prices) - Egypt PT 2, Cyrenaica PT 2, Cyprus 4
1/2 Pts, Eritrea 55 Cents, Iran 3 1/2 Rials,
Italy 10 Lire, Lebanon 30 S Pts, Malta 6d,
Palestine 25 Mils (up 5 Mils!), Sicily 10 Lire,
Sudan 20 Mills, Syria 30 S Pts, Transjordan 25
Mils, Tripolitania 12 M A Lire, Turkey 10 Krs
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Armed Forces -
Mediterranean |
'Union Jack'
-
British Army newspaper amalgamated with
'Eighth Army News' and first published
in Tunis in September 1943. Appeared three times
weekly, but then became the 'Daily Newspaper
for the British Fighting Services'. Later
editions included Western Italy, Eastern Italy,
Central Italy, and Greece. Edition No 42 by July
31 1944 cost Two Lire. Special twelve-Page issue
Christmas Issue 1944 was issued free. |
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Army |
'Soldier'
- First
produced fortnightly for Gen Montgomery's 21st
Army Group by the War Office from early 1945 in
Brussels. Still published for the British Army 55
years later. |
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Army - Mediterranean |
'Crusader, Eighth Army
Weekly Issued to the Fighting Forces in the desert', North Africa. First published in
May 1942, No 21, Vol 2 by September 21, 1942 |
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Army - Mediterranean |
'Eighth Army News'
- North Africa |
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Army - Officer Cadets |
'Battle Dress, The Cadet
Magazine' - OCTU (Officer Cadet
Training Unit) magazine published in Aldershot,
England. Price 1/-, No. 2 by February 1940 |
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Merchant Navy |
'Neptune, for Merchant
Seamen', attractive and well illustrated
magazine that ended with edition E.N. 62
mid-1945. Interesting War Diary concludes with
request to 'pass on details to any shipmate who cannot read
English' |
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Navy |
'Barbary News'
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Royal Navy news-sheet |
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Navy |
'Navy, The'
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Official publication for the Royal Navy produced
by the Navy League |
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Navy |
 'Flight
Deck' - Fleet Air Arm. Start date uncertain; includes
October 1944 Vol 1, No 3. Last one January1946. Semi-official,
classified Restricted which was red tape, everybody had them. A
mixture of Service news, safety advice, humour, letters from
personnel etc. (thanks to David Hamilton). |
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Navy - Asia |
'Brand Flash'
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Published by Lt J C Andrews RNVR in an old
railway shed at Port Swettenham, Malaya within 24
hours of the naval landing in 1945 |
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Navy - Pacific |
'Pacific Post'
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Daily newspaper for the British Pacific Fleet
published in Sydney from August 1945. Described
as the 'first paper written, edited and printed
by men of the Navy for men in the Navy'. |
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Canadian
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Armed forces |
'Canadian Press News' - Four page weekly published in
London for Canadian forces overseas starting in
May 1942, just three months before so many
Canadian troops were lost in the Dieppe raid |
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Armed forces |
'Maple Leaf' -
Published from January 1944 for Canadian forces
in Italy. Later in 1944 also produced in Caen,
France for Canadian armed forces on the Western
Front |
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Indian
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Armed Forces |
'Fauji
Akhbar ('Soldiers Newspaper') - English language magazine
for all Indian servicemen with circulation from
Persia and North West Frontier to Ceylon and
Burma. Included Indian Navy pages. |
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New Zealand
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Army - Mediterranean |
'New
Zealand Times' - For NZ troops in Italy |
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South
African |
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Armed Forces - Mediterranean |
'Springbok'
- for South African forces
in the Middle East, first published in Cairo
October 1941 |
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United States
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Air Force |
'Air Force Magazine' - USAAF magazine |
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Armed Forces - Asia |
'C.B.I.
Roundup, India - Burma Theater' - US weekly newspaper for
US forces in China, Burma and India. Vol III, No
31 by April 12 1945. Published in Delhi |
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Armed Forces - Britain |
'Stars
and Stripes, Weekly Newspaper of the U.S Armed Forces in the
British Isles', Price 3d - Vol 2 No 2 by
April 25 1942. Published in London, England |
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Army |
'Army Motors'
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US Army Ordnance magazine |
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Army |
'Yank, The Army Weekly'
- By the men .. for the men in the
service' for the US Army. British edition
cost 3d and reached Vol 1, No 39 by Mar 14, 1943.
Vol 1, No 31 of Jan 17 1943 was a 'Navy
Issue' with a lovely overhead cover shot of
cruiser 'San Franciso' arriving in SF
after being damaged in the Guadalcanal area |
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Navy |
'Bureau of Naval Personnel
Magazine' |
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German
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| Army |
'Die Wehrmacht, Herausgegeben vom Oberkommando der
Wehrmacht',
5th Year Nr 17 by 16 August 1944 - German Army
magazine. Published in Berlin. |
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Army |
'Signal'
- German Army (Wehrmacht)
glossy magazine, circulated throughout occupied
Europe. One interesting painting shows Italian
Bersaglieri troops with their distinctive
feathered helmets attacking Russian bunkers on
the Eastern Front. |
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Japanese
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Military - Asia |
'Syonan
Shimbun' -
Japanese single sheet English language newspaper
by the Japanese military printed in Singapore on
the presses of the 'Straits Times' |
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