... WITH THE FLEET AIR ARM-No. 1 A SPOT OF BOTHER WITH A SKUA OR SOME SUCH BY WING-COMMANDER E. G. OAKLEY BEUTTLER Things have reached a pass when they can neither hoist her and swing her inboard nor decently lower her in the green and greasy ocean that is, until the two artists perched up aloft have finished burning the wire through with that acetylene blower. When they do, down she goes plop. ...

... -MEL WITH THE FIGHTING FORCES AN OPERATORS' TRAINING BATTALION, ROYAL CORPS OF SIGNALS The layman no doubt associates the word operator with a person who says Sorry you have been trahbled. This unit has no more to do with that sort of thing than it has with the Ministry of Information. Its function is quite different if only the intriguing truth might be told, which, regrettably, it cannot ...

... WHAT A DIFFERENCE A WAR MAKES By Pat Auld ...

... SERVICE UNITS No. 24 AT A ROYAL AIR FORCE STATION -BY MEL The censorship being so extremely rigid, especially where the R.A.F. is concerned, it would be extremely venturesome to add one word of embellishment to the artist's pictures, which, however, are quite eloquent enough and will say a bibful to the originals. We (and the Boche) know quite a lot about what is being done, but as our lips ...

... Petrol R( strictions By Lionel Edwar !s, R.I., R.C.A. (2) As most of their neitl ours seem to have come to a similar decision, it proves far fit i easy to find an old pony trap. However, having heard of on the y visely enlist the help of the wheel- wright his comments are rib d, ana neither encouraging nor printable (5) But the last, although not at y- all the sort of small family con veyance ...

... : Can I come and sit in front You know, I still find myself saying down-stairs and things like that if I'm not jolly careful! Four by Fenwick I guess you boys must have had some dandy times playing about with these funny little old pop-guns Bussing General Gee, I thought all big stooges around Whitehall had their own transportation! ...

... SERVICE UNITS-- No. 19 By MEL THE STAFF OF A RECORD AND PAY OFFICE BY MEL The people behind the line may not have to seek that bubble reputation in the cannon's mouth, but they are a very necessary and important part of a fighting force, no matter of what size it may be. Records are quite as important as pay, if only the fighting soldier could be brought to believe it-for someone must keep ...

... Juaical production entitled Flying High is presented, featuring the Three Yale Brothers. Merial Gaunt, and the Coconut Grove Young Ladies, with Dick urrn, author and producer, as master of ceremonies. The show starts nightly at 1.30 a.m. and the Coconut Grove is one of London s favourite rendezvous. ...

... . DRAWN* BY FRANK REYNOLDS. ...

... IN THE CAVALRY NOW. NO. 1. Artist Sherriffs is in the Army noiv, and in his spare time has been jotting down impressions of fellow-soldiers in the Boyal Armoured Corps, which takes the place of cavalry in modern warfare. CARICATURES BY SHERRIFFS. ...

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 16 AN R.A.F. TRAINING SCHOOL- -BY MEL Pictures collected at one of the many spots where they are training the lions to have wings that, as we have seen recently, are capable of carrying them as far afield as that once gay place where The Merry Widow came from. Fantastic figures have been bruited abroad concerning the numerical strength of the Huns, but no one has taken ...

... FIGHTING UNITS No. 12 NUMBER GROUP, R.A.F.-- By MEL In these times, when descriptive detail concerning any unit of our fighting forces is so severely restricted, it leaves the producer of any supporting chat to any such work of art as the above, badly gravelled for matter. But wherever this unit is and, for the matter of that, wherever any R.A.F. unit is it may be stated that it is doing its ...