... THE FIGHT OF THE NINE: THE PRELUDE TO THE FAMOUS VICTORY OF THE NINE FRENCH FIGHTERS OVER THE 27 MESSERSCHMITTS A BRITISH FIGHTER DARTS OUT OF A CLOUD-BANK PURSUED BY THE NAZI CIRCUS, JUST WHEN A FRENCH FIGHTER PATROL HAPPENS TO BE PASSING. (Specially drawn for The Illustrated War News by C. F.. Turner.) The victory won by the nine French fighters over the twenty-seven Messerschmitts over ...

... A HEAVY BOMBER ISSUED TO THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN LARGE NUMBERS IN 1937 THE HANDLEY PAGE HARROW WHICH, POWERED WITH PEGASUS XX. ENGINES, HAS A MAXIMUM SPEED OF 200 M.P.H. AND A RANGE, WITH NORMAL BOMB-LOAD, OF 1250 MILES. Charles E. Brown.) The Handley Page 41 Harrow twin-engined heavy bombers were ordered in large numbers for the R.A. F. in 1936 and a year later the contract had been completed ...

... AVENGING THE SINKING OF A BRITISH SHIP AN R.A.F. 'PLANE ATTACKING A U-BOAT WHICH CRASH-DIVES HER EXHAUST STILL SMOKING. To the destroyer's depth-charge, the aerial bomb has added yet another potent weapon against the submarine and above is shown one of the first pictures of combat between 'plane and U-boat. On September 17 a U-boat torpedoed the Newcastle freighter Kafiristan (5193 tons), 350 ...

... A TROPHY AFFORDING MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION TO THE R.A.F. A GERMAN BOMBER SHOT DOWN IN EAST LOTHIAN. (Wide World.) ihe war, which may have seemed somewhat remote to the people of the East Lothian village of Humbie, in spite of the abortive German raid on the Firth of Forth, suddenly assumed a thrilling actuality on October 28, when a German bomber skimmed over their hills, chased by R.A.F. ...

... 1 j THE BARREL OF A 16-IN. NAVAL GUN BEING GAUGED AFTER BORING A SCENE AT A BRITISH ORDNANCE FACTORY. Central Press J -T=I=1J j The 16-in. gun is the biggest mounted by the ships of any Navy at the moment, i though even more enormous 18-in. guns made their appearance in British monitors during the last war. The Nelson and the Rodney were the 'i first ships in the Royal Navy to mount such guns, ...

... A DEADLY FORM OF DEFENCE AGAINST AIRCRAFT PRESSING HOME ATTACKS AGAINST A WARSHIP A BRITISH MULTIPLE MACHINE-GUN. The appearance of the multi-barrel, small-calibre anti-aircraft gun in answer to a new menace against the large warship is an interesting repetition in history. When the menace of the torpedo-boat first became serious in the last century, the Navy endeavoured to counter it by the ...

... WITH THE HOME FLEET BOATSWAINS PIPING THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES FORBES, ABOARD A BATTLESHIP. From Ike AfarvJi of Time Film K* The Battle Fleets of Britain ...

... THE ARTIST IN WARTIME AN IMPRESSION BY C. CHATER OF (LEFT) A BRITISH BATTLESHIP LOCATING A GERMAN RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT AT NIGHT AND (RIGHT) A GERMAN JUNKERS JU. 87 'PLANE BROUGHT DOWN BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT FIRE BEHIND THE FRENCH LINES. The services of British artists have not as yet, as in the last war, been officially j called upon by the Government to supplement photography as a means of ...

... THERE'S A WEALTH OF ENTERTAINMENT IN A large number of the informative diagrammatic drawings, reproduced as panoramas, EACH MEASURING OVER THREE chiefly by that well-known artist G. H. Davis, which have FEET WIDE. They show British warship types a Battleship, a been published from time to time in THE ILLUSTRATED Cruiser, a Flotilla-Leader, a Submarine, and an Aircraft- LONDON NEWS, are now ...

... DEVILS OF THE SEA (UPPER) THE U-BOAT WHICH HELD UP AND SEARCHED THE FIRST U.S. SHIP STOPPED IN THE WAR AND (LOWER) ANOTHER U-BOAT, PHOTOGRAPHED FROM A NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER, AFTER SHE HAD SUNK TWO BRITISH SHIPS. (Photographs by Keystone and A. P.) i We believe, said Mr. Churchill in the House, on October 17, that out of *1 about sixty U-boats ready for action at the beginning of the war about ...

... j LEADERS OF BRITAIN'S HUGE NEW FORCES THE HIGH COMMANDS OF THE ARMY AND THE R.A.F. GENERAL LORD GORT, V.C., THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH FIELD FORCE IN FRANCE. Lord Gort's V.C. was won on Septem ber 27, 1918, while commanding the 1st Battalion of the Guards. A FORMER DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE T.A., NOW INSPECTOR-GENERAL, HOME FORCES GENERAL SIR WALTER KIRKE. Is responsible for the ...

... THE ARMY, NAVY AND AIR FORCE CHIEFS OF OUR GALLANT ALLIES FOUR FRENCH WAR LEADERS WITH MAGNIFICENT SERVICE RECORDS j GENERAL GAMELIN. General Gamelin, who occupies the place in the Allied War councils that Marshal Foch filled in the latter part of the Great War, comes of an old French military family. He is a noted strategist, and was partly responsible for the Marne victory. GENERAL GEORGES. ...