| KATYUSHA | Russian multiple rocket launcher of the Second World War, named after a patriotic song |
| THRAX | A son of Ares, the Greek god of war, named after the ancient kingdom of Thrace (5) |
| BAZOOKA | A shoulder-type of rocket launcher of US origin (7) |
| AGAMEMNON | Greek commander in Trojan War named on 'Jubilee' engine 45693 (9) |
| SLIM | Surname of the commander of the 14th "forgotten" army of the Second World War (4) |
| BULGE | The battle of the ___ was Germany's last (unsuccessful) major offensive on the western front of the Second World War (5) |
| CHINDIT | A member of one of Brigadier Wingate's long-range penetration groups in the Burma campaign of the Second World War (7) |
| ABWEHR | The German military intelligence service from the early 1920s to the end of the Second World War (6) |
| NATIONALANTHEM | Lone hitman at an alternative rendition of a patriotic song (8,6) |
| AMBER | Waves of grain's color in a patriotic song |
| ANTHEM | The man composed a patriotic song (6) |
| IRVING | Creator of a patriotic song |
| BERLIN | Creator of a patriotic song |
| ARNE | Thomas ___, composer of a patriotic song (4) |
| REMAGEN | German town with a critical Rhine bridge captured by US forces in the closing days of the Second World War |
| LANDOFMYFATHERS | Taffy's her old man, playing a patriotic song (4,2,2,7) |
| ROMMEL | Erwin - - -, German Field Marshal of the Second World War known as the Desert Fox (6) |
| PUTOUTMOREFLAGS | Evelyn Waugh novel set during the early days of the Second World War |
| ERWINROMMEL | German Field Marshal of the Second World War known as the Desert Fox (5,6) |
| NASA | Launcher of the Mars InSight lander |
