The Rhine

CLEARING THE RHINE - The work of the Royal Engineers in clearing the German demolitions to the bridges crossing the Rhine from Coblenz to the North Sea. Readers' Investigations - With the Company Commander (Charles B. MacDonald) - Patrick Hargreaves takes American historian Charles B. MacDonald back to the battlefields in the Ardennes. Wreck Recovery - Jersey Coastal Artillery Gun Recovery - Terry O'Brien's successful recovery of a barrel from Batterie Moltke which had been dumped over the cliff at Les Landes by the Royal Engineers in 1945-46. Personality - The Soviet Union's Fighter Ace - The story of Nikitovich Kozhedub, the highest scoring Soviet fighter pilot credited with 62 victories as told by Nikolai Bodrikhin. United Kingdom - US Army Airstrips in Britain, 1942-45 - Ken Wakefield describes the construction and use of improvised airstrips by American forces.

The 1980s saw significant modernisation efforts for the British Army of the Rhine. Among many others, the most important additions to the vehicle pool were the Challenger 1 MBT and the FV 510 Warrior MCV.