... GUADALCANAL The Fierce Struggle for the Smallest Theatre of War Xhe big aerodrome on Guadalcanal forms a not inconsider able portion of the small area held by U.S. forces on the island. From east to west this fiercely-contested plot of ground measures but six miles it extends inland to a depth of three miles. On all three land sides, the area is flanked by tropical forest growth and palm ...

... AMERICAN INDUSTRY BECOMES GEARED UP What is Going On in the Vast Industrial Centres of the United States To-day Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE United States has always enjoyed a reputa tion for mass production, but from the latest information received in London it would appear that if Hitler, Göring and Goebbels were taken on a conducted tour of the war factories over there they might, in all ...

... . . (/(tttit t'lt'Ctl t o 4 If these were the piping days of peace this would just be a photograph of a happy little boy. Until then, it is a picture of the unobtainable a banana. But wait Isn't it a symbol of all we are fighting for Not merely that a banana may be a commonplace, but that children can be happy and grow up to live sensible, useful lives with never another war to come grasping ...

... Our News Pictures of the Week JUST AFTER THE VOTE OF CONFIDENCE (476 to 25) The Prime Minister and his daughter back at No. 10, Downing Street from the House of Commons. Sergeant Mary Churchill of the A.T.S. had received seven days leave, which covered her father's return from the U.S. and the debate in Parliament CAPTURED IN LIBYA AND EN ROUTE FOR CANADA Germans of a Panzer Divisioi leaving ...

... WHAT IS AIR SUPERIORITY? Did we Have it in Libya and Did we Use it Correctly? By PATRICK HAMILTON IF the last Libyan campaign is looked at as consisting of two separate phases-- prior to the fall of Bir Hacheim and afterwards-- several rather puzzling features become a little clearer. Particularly does this apply to the air superiority question. Many are asking if we ever in fact had it, ...

... The ESCAPE of the KING of GREECE from CRETE How He was Succoured in the Hill Country by Devoted Mountaineers THE escape of King George of Greece from his residence near Canea makes a stirring narrative. In some of its aspects it recalls passages in Shakespeare, where monarchs have had to flee their palaces and accept the kindly hospitality of peasants or goatherds. The King was in a house ...

... W.A.A.F. STAND BY FOR THE RETURN OF THE BOMBERS. This is the crew of a Halifax bomber which had just returned from a big raid on Germany. The airmen taking part in such raids can now go straight from their aircraft to the new Drying Room which has been opened to them on various stations, and which are each under the care of a W.A.A.F. Safety Equipment Assistant. This is the latest method in ...

... Mussolini's Development of the Big Island of Sardinia Before, and Since, the Opening of War. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY CONSIDERING the continuous role Sardinia has played in Europe's war-making since 1936, it is odd that we haven't heard more about this second largest island of the Mediterranean. Sardinia was used as one of the Italian bases for the incursion into the affairs of Spain, ...

... To commemorate the sterling service rendered by the men of one of the regiments stationed in Malta, a tablet in the form of their regimental badge was recently unveiled in the rocky walls of a much blitzed dockside building. Prior to the unveiling, detachments of the regiment were inspected by Vice- Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham, former Vice- Admiral of the British Mediterranean island outpost. ...

... THE HEROES OF ST. PAUL'S Lieutenant R. Davies and Two of the Members of His Bomb Disposal Unit MIC VYIIUIC U I Lwl lUul I HQ) UCCll llliyiliy 1 L i I piai.'C I VI'S heroism of Canadian-born Lieut. R. Davies and the members of his Bomb Disposal Unit who safely removed the huge bomb from beneath St. Paul's and exploded it harmlessly on the Hackney Marshes. It was not until this incident that the ...

... A Thames pleasure steamer was used to evacuate some of the women and children from their bombed Dockland homes to rural districts outside London. Several aged women too old and infirm to walk were carried on board on stretchers. They were told early one morning to be ready to move within an hour or two. In this island area of London, where the drawbridges of Dockland are raised as the ...

... the first fighter pilot TO WIN THE V.C. Flight Lieutenant James Brindley Nicolson receives the Congratulations of Fellow Pilots at a R.A.F. Hospital Fl pht-Lieutenant N'colson is twenty-three years of age and one of the tallest pNots in the R.A.F.-- -he is 6 ft. 4 ins. He pined the Air Force in iy.56 and was posted to a Spitfire Squadron the following year: later he was given command of a ...