|
AUSTRALIAN
|
| Armed
Forces - Mediterranean |
'A.I.F.
News' - For Australians forces
serving in North Africa |
| 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 |
| 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) |
|
BRITISH
|
| Air
Force |
'Royal
Air Force' - Official
fortnightly magazine |
| 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). |
| 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) |
| Air
Force - Mediterranean |
'Royal
Air Force Journal, Middle East
Edition' - Number 20 by 27th
February 1943 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Armed
forces - Africa |
'Review'
- East Africa Command. More
serious fortnightly publication which
included advertising to offset
production costs |
| 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 |
| Armed
Forces - Asia |
'Contact'
- Newspaper published
fortnightly for British servicemen in
India and Ceylon. Vol 2, No 72 by 12
April 1945 |
| Armed
Forces - Asia |
'Phoenix'
- South East Asia theatre |
| 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' |
| Armed
Forces - Asia |
'Victory,
Service Copy', Indian Command
weekly magazine, Price 4 Annas |
| Armed
Forces - Mediterranean |
'Parade'
- Middle East theatre weekly |
| 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
|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Army
- Mediterranean |
'Eighth
Army News' - North Africa |
| 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 |
| 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' |
| Navy |
'Barbary
News' - Royal Navy news-sheet |
| Navy
|
'Navy,
The' - Official publication for
the Royal Navy produced by the Navy
League |
| 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). |
| Navy
- Asia |
'Brand
Flash' - 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 |
| Navy
- Pacific |
'Pacific
Post' - 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'. |
|
CANADIAN
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
INDIAN
|
| 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. |
|
NEW
ZEALAND
|
| Army
- Mediterranean |
'New
Zealand Times' - For NZ troops
in Italy |
|
SOUTH
AFRICAN
|
| Armed
Forces - Mediterranean |
'Springbok'
- for South African forces in
the Middle East, first published in
Cairo October 1941 |
|
UNITED
STATES
|
| Air
Force |
'Air
Force Magazine' - USAAF magazine |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Army |
'Army
Motors' - US Army Ordnance
magazine |
| 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 |
| Navy |
'Bureau
of Naval Personnel Magazine'
|
|
|
GERMAN
|
| Army |
'Die
Wehrmacht, Herausgegeben vom
Oberkommando der Wehrmacht', 5th
Year Nr 17 by 16 August 1944 - German
Army magazine. Published in Berlin. |
| 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. |
|
JAPANESE
|
| Military
- Asia |
'Syonan
Shimbun' - Japanese single
sheet English language newspaper by
the Japanese military printed in
Singapore on the presses of the
'Straits Times'
|
