... YY/herever practicable, traffic at night was maintained throughout London even during some of the raids. Buses and trams continued to run. until the sound of firing indicated that the raiders were actually overhead. It is not surprising, therefore, to witness such sights as the above. Although some people were caught in public conveyances and private cars, the wonder is that there were not ...

... IN RAMSGATE TO-DAY Life in Britain's Most Heavily Bombed Town T IFE goes on in Ramsgate-- Britain's worst bombed but I in some ways safest town. With over 500 H.F.. bombs dropped during one raid alone, the people of Ramsgate are determined to see it through to the end, despite that Mr. H. R. Knickerbocker, the distinguished American journalist who recently visited the town, has stated that no ...

... Invasion Distance Problems Set Forth. The New R.A.F. Incendiary Weapon. The Prime Minis ter's Speech Geo graphically Set Forth WHY THE AREA, DUNKIRK TO BOULOGNE, WAS HEAVILY BOMBED Last week-end the coastal area between Dunkirk and Boulogne was strafed by the R.A.F. with one of the heaviest aerial bom bardments yet undertaken by that force. Barge concentrations at Zeebrugge, Dunkirk, Calais ...

... HITLER BOMBS SICK CHILDREN Destruction at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street ome along, we re going to take you out to see the searchlights. Behind those calm, smiling words, uttered by nurses and staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, London, to a group of some 46 little children is yet another story of men and women upon whom naturally falls the mantle of heroes and heroines ...

... bmi^ j n i w,i j. any of the secrets of the Luftwaffe have been revealed to the Allies since the German capitulation. One of them has been the jet-propelled Me 262, which made its appearance over the Euro pean battlefields last year during the break-through attempt by the Nazis in the early part of the present year, numbers of them were encountered by our pilots. But it made its appearance too ...

... Much of the mystery surrounding the King of the Belgians has been dispersed by his liberation by the Americans at Strobl, near Salzburg. He was married to Miss Leila Baels, a commoner who later became the Princess de Rethy, in 1941, after his arrest by the Germans. (His first wife. Queen Astrid, was killed in a car smash in 1935.) The King has now announced that, owing to ill health, he cannot ...

... GERMANY MISSING POLISH-JEWS TURN UP IN BERLIN'S AMERICAN ZONE after disappearing from the Russian Zone, following the threat to send them to the Russian camp at Prenzlau. The Americans immediately arranged for their billeting A HAVEN FOR WANDERERS Polish Jews being registered and issued with food, billeting and blanket cards, on arrival in the American Zone of Berlin. On pages 1 14-15 of this ...

... RISEN ON THE SCENE OF A GREAT CONFLICT This group of new classroom buildings has been erected at University City, on the outskirts of Madrid, to take the place of those destroyed during the Civil War, when the University area was in the front line for over a year UNIVERSITY CITY COMES BACK TO LIFE The battle-scarred Agricultural College (on left) is now undergoing repairs, while the Faculty of ...

... AS soon as a modern world war stops, Man proceeds to run over his weapons, discarding some and entering up others, novelties, in his armoury, which has the parallel effect of altering the constitution of the armed forces. In 1919 the great newcomers were the aeroplane and the tank, and these in due course combined to produce the revolutionary blitz warfare that had been foreseen. Now, in 1946, ...

... (See also pp. 298-301 of this Issue DAWN OUTSIDE DIEPPE Wednesday, August 19. The Channel was crossed under cover of darkness, and the principal attack was launched at dawn. The naval vessels engaged were protected by a strong air umbrella, which covered the landings and allowed the withdrawal to take place as planned. A feature of the whole raid was the absence of enemy surface craft to ...

... What Happened to the Twenty-eight Fighting Vehicles Landed on the Beaches How They Behaved During the Great Raid And the Possibilities of the Tank in Further Similar Operations Special Sphere Drawings and Notes ONE of the most interesting features of the Dieppe raid was our employment of tanks during the operation. Their landing from special craft at the water's edge, awkward crunching up the ...

... AIR-CONDITIONED TANKS? Methods the Germans May Have Adopted in Libya TRAVELLING at the equivalent of naval action stations, a tank is almost completely battened down. Direct visibility is limited to a few square inches of bullet-proof glass, and direct ventilation to what air can be induced through ventilation louvres on the under side of the tank-- those on the upper deck, so to speak, ...