... And Then the Gun Jams By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler It 's happened more than once one of our submarines steals into an Italian harbour, surfaces, finds herself presented with a sitting target and then the gun jams. Here is our artist's version of the incident, portrayed with much local colour and nautical detail. The conning-tower and gun arc just clear of the water the gun's crew, ...

... --By MEL Said to owe its inception to a happy thought of Commander Hillyard as he looked out of his bathroom window one morning soon after coming to live in Pulborough, the West Sussex Golf Club is set in a perfect golfing pocket of sand, amid clayey golfing deserts. Just in this small area, white sand blows across heather to delight the golfer's heart, while distant downs go to make up a ...

... A General Trades Training Battalion, Royal Corps of Signals by Mel Top Captain G. Gee, Captain C. A. Lamb, Captain J. C. Treasure, Major F. G. Wilson Centre Captain E. L. Smith-Masters, Lieut.-Colonel P. B. Foot (Commanding Officer), Major D. C. M. Johnson (Second in Command), Major Beagles Lander Bottom Captain W. M. Lindley, M.C., Captain E. V. Marsh (Adjutant), Captain A. R. Manley (Q.-M.), ...

... No. 7 FOULED ANCHORS BY WINC-COMMANDER E. C. OAKLEY-BEUTTLER There is nothing fantastic about this, as all sailors know What has happened may be explained like this. So often, when letting go your anchor on a bottom of which you are not quite certain, you may easily pick up a cable also. With two anchors out, wind and tide sometimes cause the ship to swing in a circle, and if the anchor-swivel ...

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 18 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT By MEL This week our artist returns from his excursus to the skies and the men that look after them and brings us back to the sort of fighting man who has been going on ever since the first caveman dotted his neighbour one on the nose the P.B.I. Not that I. is necessarily so P.B. nowadays when they have buses like the one in the ...

... A HOLDING BATTALION ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS Every picture is supposed to tell its own story, and it is felt that this one does to them as knows The artist's sitters will most certainly appreciate all the noms de guerre which are bestowed, and no doubt will be very ready to admit that the portraiture is of the highest order. The mess would appear to be a cheery spot in which any officer might ...

... A Few More Points Over the Odds by The Tout Mr. Walter Hutchinson recently purchased Attv Persse's famous Stockbridge establish- ment. Marcus Marsh had four years as P.O.W. in Germany. He turned out Windsor Lad to win the 1934 Derby for H.H. the Maharaja of Rajpipla. Mr. Mickey Morriss, whose father won the Derby with Manna, lives at Banstead Manor, near Newmarket. J. E. Ferguson trains with ...

... OFFICERS OF THE DEPOT BATTALION, ROYAL SIGNALS The artist himself being a serving officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, his sitters were naturally easier to come by than many of his others, who at times have been scattered very far afield. Colonel C. P. Prescot, the old C.O., was in Palestine before this war happened, and the new C.O., Lieut.-Colonel W. E. Rayner, who got a brevet in 1936, ...

... Walt Disney Goes South American Way Saludos Amigos (Hello, Friends!) is the Latest Donald Duck 5o Uute'V^ ^rl0f0 Id tak'8 sWr ',ro m w o?*.r:M, 0t M V7;^ Disney's latest Saludos Amigos brings together again our old friends Donald Duck and Goofy. As an American tourist, Donald finds himself in Argentina, Brazil. Chile, Peru and Bolivia. On his travels he meets two entirely new friends, Joe ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 25 THE Nth BATTALION THE WILTSHIRE REGIMENT- -By MEL Although a good many of the gallant officers included in our artist's very attractive gallery are depicted smoking the calumet of peace, this is only camouflage, for this battalion, like all the others of the Wiltshires, is hard at work preparing for bloody-fronted war, and from a sure hand we have it that it is fighting ...

... BUT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND, YOU SILLY MAN THERE WAS A WASP DRAWN BY DENNIS MALLET ...

... H.Q. A.A.S.F. SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE The vigilance of our air scrappers is admirably displayed in this attractive gallery. Attention is directed to the officer in the right-hand top corner. The R.A.F. has established a reputation for not letting anything past There is the proof. The enemy needs no proof. He is not now overfond of taking it on unless he is wrapped up in cotton-wool by his fighters ...