Iam now starting my second year as editor of Iron Cross, striving to fill the magazine with quality content that has long been the hallmark of the publication. To that end, this issue includes the usual wide-ranging mix of articles readers...
Tony has worked in enthusiast publishing since the mid-1980s, initially being contracted as a photo-journalist whilst still at university in Western Australia. Moving to England in 1989 to take up the position of commissioning editor...
No fewer than 41 U-boats of the Kriegsmarine’s ‘Monsun’ Gruppe sailed to the Far East in search of Allied merchant vessels to sink, or carrying important military cargo bound for Germany’s Axis partner, Japan, during the Second World War,...
When Luftwaffe ace Hauptmann Rolf Pingel was forced down on the Kent coast on 10 July 1941, he provided the RAF with a relatively intact Bf 109F-2. It was the first complete example of the type acquired by the British, and once repaired, the...
This photograph, expertly colourised by new Iron Cross contributor Sean Clark, features Fallschirmjäger learning how to effectively, and expeditiously, disembark from a DFS 230 glider during a training drill at an airfield somewhere...
In the second instalment of a twopart feature detailing the seizure of Fort Ében-émael in Belgium on 10–11 May 1940, Dr Niklas Napp examines the paratroopers’ daring attack and capture of both the fortress and nearby bridges. After...