Complete Clue List
Across
1. This general German abbreviation for 'divebomber' became the nickname for the Junkers Ju.87(5)
3. A fighter pilot with at least five 'kills'(3)
5. 'The Battle of The _______', the more common name of the second German Ardennes offensive(5)
8. The German invasion of this country heralded the start of WW2 on 1st September, 1939(6)
9. This Polish city was the first of many throughout Europe to suffer heavy bombing during WW2(6)
10. The initials of the British Air Raid Wardens' service(3)
12. Every WW2 conscript had to do this sort of training before specializing(5)
14. A sergeant or corporal, for example(3)
16. This US battleship suffered heavy loss of life at Pearl Harbor and is today a war grave(7)
17. The British attack on this Italian naval base became the blueprint for Pearl Harbor (7)
18. French _____-China, where the French forces fought a short campaign against Thailand(4)
19. The abbreviation for 'Kitai', the prefix applied to all Japanese Army aircraft series(2)
20. An ingenious US amphibious vehicle, much used in beachhead landings(4)
22. The He.219 'Owl' night fighter was called this in the German language(3)
23. and 30. This limited access to information about the war for 50 years after its end(8,7,3)
26. The operation codename of the German attack on the Soviet Union on 22nd June, 1941(10)
28. The Allied invasion of Northern Europe, 6th June 1944(1-3)
30. see 23 Across(7,3)
31. An armoured vehicle used a lot in WW2(4)
Down
1. The makers of the famous Spitfire fighter(11)
2. Initials used to describe battlefield deaths(3)
4. A French tank, or the British soldier's favourite brew!(4)
6. The official nickname for the Polish P.37 bomber(3)
7. German general known as 'The Desert Fox' (5,6)
10. British slang for anti-aircraft fire(3-3)
11. The name (acronym) for the British hand-held anti-tank weapon(4)
13. A beachhead campaign in 1944 designed to speed up the Allied advance through Italy(5)
15. Mark_______, the US general who directed the Allied campaign in Italy(5)
20. A British two-seat turret-fighter aircraft that became the first successful night fighter(7)
21. Generally, the defensive armament of a WW2 bomber was operated from one of these(6)
23. The initials of the US military department that ran secret operations behind enemy lines(3)
24. The British stopped the Japanese advance at the border of this Imperial colony(5)
25. The Allied codename for the B5N torpedo bomber made famous at Pearl Harbor(4)
27. The Browning Automatic Rifle(3)
29. The common abbreviation for machines by Yakovlev, the Soviet aircraft designer(3)