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... CAN MERCHANTMEN DESIGN BE IMPROVED? The Construction of the Tanker and the Freighter Compared 1 1 A considerable number of suggestions have been made from time to time concern ing methods to circumvent torpedo attack on merchantmen. Many of the suggestions such as giant submarines, or vessels lying so low in the water as to be almost awash, and others are not immediately practical but here is ...
... Before and After its Bombing by the R.A.F. in Occupied France Official Air Ministry Photographs The following is a key to the damage done as indicated in the photograph on the right 1. Main shop of nine bays area 3,000 by 130 ft. One hit, and possibly a second. A large area of the roofing has been stripped and part of the west wall shattered. 2. Long building, area 500 by 40 ft. Roof damaged ...
... I SUSPENSE DURING THE ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN SOUTHERN ITALY. This scene, from a smal town in the hills, shows a group of civilians and police trying to determine the identity of the newcomers in the car ahead-- -Drawing by Edward Osmond It Is, perhaps, not generally realised how loosely held has been the so-called line across Italy. This has permitted the nemy to leave concealed ...
... Flak Towers IN THE London Area The Elevated Concrete Defence Posts Around the Capital A/HliN the Luftwaffe V switched over its attacks from high-level bombing to tip-and-run raids on coastal and inland objectives, new dispositions were chosen for the Bofors guns of Anti-Aircraft Command defending these areas. The danger was that low flying fighter bombers F.-W. 190's, carrying two bombs each, ...
... THE FIGHTING TYPHOON, and Other New Pictures, Taken during Operational Flying in Britain and North Africa WHEN A HALIFAX CREW RETURNS FROM A BOMBING EXPEDITION. Following up the day attack on Frankfurt on October 4, Bomber Command launched a second heavy assault on the same city on .the following night. This picture was taken on a P.A.F. station from which some of the four-engined Halifaxes ...
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... THE PREMIER SPEAKS TO THE DOCKYARD WORKERS Mr. Winston Churchill recently paid a visit to the North, where his programme included visits to various naval units. With him was Mr. Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's special envoy to this country H THE LORD PROVOST OF GLASGOW The Premier's tour also in cluded a visit to Glasgow, where he inspected the Civic Defence Organisation. Besides Mr. ...
... AN ESCAPE FROM THE WAR The Romance of a Peerage: Lord Nuffield's Pedigree: The Year' s Rainfall Green Peas at Christmas A Coming Centenary VOLUME XIII. COM- PLETE PEERAGE.-- The XUIth volume of the Complete Peerage deserves a special notice. If you have never looked inside this monumental work, begun by Mr. Vicary Gibbs and continued by Mr. Doubleday (with many strong supporters and helpers) ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 177 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Nelson Touch.-- The epic story of the latest Arctic convoy to Russia which is coupled with the names of Sherbrooke, and of the Onslow and the Achates, may rank in history in that unbroken chain of epics of the sea which from Tudor times to the present day adorn and point the moral of British sea power. It is early days yet to speak of ...
... The March of General Leclerc's Fighting French Force from Chad up to the Tripolitanian Fighting Zone. .Described by FERDINAND TUOHY GENERAL LECLERC'S march up from Chad to menace the fortified zone of Tripoli, some 1,500 miles north of his Fort Larny starting-point, would have furnished, in any but this monster con flict, a daily front-page story of high war adventure. One can visualise the ...
... HOW H.M.S. SCYLLA (5,450-TON CRUISER OF THE DIDO CUSS) CAUGHT AND SANK A LARGE GERMAN BLOCKADE RUNNER IN THE ATLANTIC -Drawing by Montague Dawson Royal Navy in five weeks. A Sunderland of an Australian Squadron of Coastal Command shadowed the enemy vessel and then flew on a parallel course, dr give the cruiser the exact position of the enemy. Night was coming on, so that it was essential to ...
... THE sequel to Bomber Command and The Battle of Britain has just been published; and it is undoubtedly already a best seller. Prepared by the Ministry of Information for the Air Ministry, it, is a magnificently produced volume of 144 pages at the price of 28. The I took con tains 140 photographs, many of which have not before been published, ami some of the more striking of these arc ...