Across
8 Hew ___, British military historian, author of British Generals in Blair’s Wars (8)
9 Attack helicopter built by Boeing (6)
10 British field marshal, author of Triumph in the West (1959) (10)
11 British WW2 organisation providing entertainment for the armed forces (4)
12 Type of depth charge projector (1-3)
13 Eliphalet ___, founder of a famous American firearms company (9)
16 African metal-tipped spear (7)
18 Castle in County Cork, Ireland, captured by Parliamentary forces during the Irish Confederate Wars (7)
20 Battle in which the Duke of Monmouth was defeated by the troops of James II (9)
21 Fort in Pennsylvania besieged in 1763 during Pontiac’s War (4)
23 City occupied by Chilean troops during the War of the Pacific (4)
25 Name for Germany’s armed forces during the Weimar Republic (10)
27 US Navy Virginia-class submarine launched in 2006 (6)
28 Army defeated by the Prussians at the Battle of Blumenau (8)
Down
1 German term for a prisoner-of-war camp (6)
2 First World War battle fought in August 1914, a victory for Germany over Russia (10)
3 US operation in July 1968 during the Vietnam War (4)
4 Military transport aircraft built by Hawker Siddeley, first flown in 1963 (7)
5 Battle of the Wars of the Roses fought on 30 December 1460 (9)
6 Pacific island invaded by Japanese forces in December 1941 (4)
7 Native American tribe of Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada (8)
14 US pilot captured in 1960 when flying a U-2 reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union (4,6)
15 Jose de ___, South American soldier and statesman who led revolutions against Spanish rule (3,6)
17 Union general born in Albany, New York, in 1831 (8)
19 Venezuelan statesman who led a revolt against Spanish rule (7)
22 Asian city where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in 1943 (6)
24 British light cruiser present at the Battle of the River Plate (4)
26 High-ranking Nazi who flew alone to Scotland in May 1941 (4)
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Across: 8 Strachan, 9 Apache, 10 Alanbrooke, 11 ENSA, 12 Y-gun, 13 Remington, 16 Assegai, 18 Blarney, 20 Sedgemoor, 21 Pitt, 23 Lima, 25 Reichswehr, 27 Hawaii, 28 Austrian. Down: 1 Stalag, 2 Tannenberg, 3 Thor, 4 Andover, 5 Wakefield, 6 Wake, 7 Shoshone, 14 Gary Powers, 15 San Martin, 17 Sheridan, 19 Bolivar, 22 Tehran, 24 Ajax, 26 Hess.
