... ■Vitabeau -Vitabeau Now for the Civil Defence yy COLD, wet night and on duty. That's the time when you need the comfort and pro tection of this smart but essentially businesslike Vitabeau. In Fawn and Blue Egyptian Cotton Gabardine, lined throughout body and sleeves, with strap .and button windproof wrist cuffs, this is a coaf thaf will keep out wind and weather for years of hard wearing ...

... R.A.F. PILOTS UNDERGO DINGHY TRAINING A demonstration of how to turn a dinghy right way up in the water. All R.A.F. pilots now have to undergo a swimming course before they are taught to fly. The first swimming-bath has been commandeered for this purpose, and also to instruct pilots-to-be in the handling of their collapsible rubber craft in the water. The three pictures reproduced here were ...

... HITLER'S HUNT for FRESH VASSAL ARMIES The Divisions of the Satellite States Have Mostly Disappeared-- and Now Fresh Cannon-fodder is Needed By FERDINAND TUOHY AMONG the prolonged and shattering headaches from which the Nazi bosses are currently suffering, by no means the least is that concerned with the raising of new satellite armies in place of those squandered, or gone with the wind, in ...

... THE FAST-DEVELOPING TANK Why Modern Fighting Vehicles Nov, Have Longer Barrels for Their Gum By DONALD COWIE On this tank, dating back to the very early days of the war, there was one rifle-calibre or one 12 7 mm. (0 5-in.) Vickers machine-gun, plus perhaps one short-range mortar and a tube for discharging smoke On the Valentine, there were one 2-pdr.gun and one Besa machine-gun and 3A. The ...

... PRISONERS IN AFRICA The Total Count from the Start The Cairo statistical records show that nearly 500,000 captives have been taken in the Libyan, East African and Syrian campaigns, up till the arrival of the Eighth Army in Tunisia THERE is an office in Cairo where military officials work with adding machines and ledgers, just like clerks in a London accounts department. But the figures they ...

... THE FREEDOM OF THE AIR The First of Two Articles Dealing with Civil Aviation After the War By CHARLES GRAVES THE recent speech by Congress-woman Clare Booth Luce (of which the Air Ministry secured a 5,000- word verbatim report), has brought the problem of post-war civil aviation to a head. In spite of the huge numbers of new British and American liners and cargo boats which can be expected to ...

... THE MALTA FIGHTER-CONTROL GIRLS KEEP FIT. After long hours in the underground rock shelters in which Fighter-Control Headquarters are located, fresh air and exercise are essential. After the fighters have returned, the girls get into bathing-suits and practise dance routines on the roof of a house belonging to their captain THE CHILDREN OF MALTA attend the ceremony of Blessing the Animals ...

... The PRIME MINISTER in the MIDDLE EAST Official Pictures Received by Radio MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL IN CAIRO, after his historic visit to the Turkish President A picture taken in the garden of the British Embassy, and sent by radio. From 'left to right here are Admiral Sir Henry Harwood (Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet) General Sir Alan Brooke (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) Mr. ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 181 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Impatience and the Faith Cure.-- Mr. Churchill is more than our milometer (or mile-recorder) He is our barometer of optimism. I suppose it is very natural that we should once again be impatient for action. In the hour of Russia's greatest peril, we were bitterly im patient for that second front which was to relieve her strain. Mr. ...

... THE OCCUPATION OF THE CITY OF TRIPOLI With Some Further Pictures of Mr. Winston Churchill's Visit to What Was Formerly Mussolini's African Capital f _ 7 MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL CORDIALLY GREETS LIEUT.- GENERAL SIR BERNARD FREYBERG, Y.C., Commander- in-Chief of the New Zealanders, during his visit to the New Zealand Division in Tripoli |\/Tr. Churchill flew from Cairo to Tripoli on February 3 on ...

... THE LITTER LEFT BEHIND BY AN ARMY IN RETREAT, SOME OF WHICH MIGHT HAVE CONTAINED BOOBY TRAPS. This is a typical scene witnessed by the men of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert as they chased Rommel's rearguard into Tunisia. The Nazis and Italians left behind a tremendous litter of sun helmets, machine-gun ammunition, grenades, food, blankets and other impedimenta. But British soldiers ...

... When the Russian ring closed round General Paulus's Sixth German Army, twenty-two divisions, representing 330,000 men, were trapped. Within the space of sixty-five days, thousands of them were killed, thousands died of the appalling conditions under which they fought, thousands more were taken prisoner. None remained to carry out Hitler s promise that Stalingrad would be taken. The history of ...