... A.F.S. Auxiliary Fire Service The Auxiliary Fire Service employs a large number of women, not as taking the place of firemen, but to work in close connection with the fire service system, chiefly in the capa city of telephonists, an employment which often re quires great pluck and endurance. Those engaged in secretarial and tele phonic duties are equipped with a uniform, coat and skirt, others ...

... V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment Nursing auxiliar ies from the Red Cross and St. John's Ambu lance work together in the United Women's Volun tary Aid Detach ments popularly known as the V.A.D.s. They must have spent at least forty hours nursing actually in hospital, and in addition, before they are ad mitted to this ser vice they must also hold a first aid certificate. The V.A.D.s come under ...

... THE TORPEDO ATTACK How it was Carried Out at Taranto by the Torpedo-Droppers of the Fleet Air Arm before in this war, or any other, has a new Arm so justified its existence and the hopes of its creators ^^■uch fashion as the Fleet Air Arm has justified itself at Taranto. Even in the last war, aircraft-carriers jWl' L^lu R°y;*l Navy; hut it was in the intervening years that this huge type of ...

... t ^T| .r^,^ S-lKirKAA Kipps in Production at Shepherd's Bush Ginger Rogers FILM NEWS from SIUDIU and UNtMA Comes to the Gaumont and Gary Cooper to the Carlton DIANA WYNYARD AS HELEN WALSINGHAM IN KIPPS: Diana Wynyard plays the wealthy girl who takes the aspiring Kipps under her social wing in the film version of Kipps, H. G. Weils' early novel. The film is being directed by Carol Reed ...

... 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 ...

... A.T.S. Auxiliary Territorial Service The Au x i 1 i ary T erritorial Service is run very much on ordinary Army lines the women are paid from 12s. per week and all their uni form outfit and equipment is'found. The duties of the members are con cerned with the Army alone and consist of cooking, canteen, secretarial and telephone work. There is in addition to the above a branch of skilled drivers ...

... ARRIVAL AT DAKAR: A launch, flying General de Gaulle's tricolour and carrying his Envoy, off to meet the French Governor-General 1ERAL GIVES UP: With his officers, General de Gaulle es not to cause bloodshed by fighting against his compatriots at Dakar AT DUALA Casualties from the Dakar incident being ied ashore at Duala, where the General was received with open arms DUALA RECEIVES DE GAULLE: ...

... A WAR-TIME OPERATION AT SEA Salvaging a Damaged Trawler Drawing by Montague Dawson A helpless ship of any size is a very difficult tow, even in calm weather; if her rudder is jammed to one side or the other, as is often the case, it is impossible to do any good until a second ship makes fast astern and acts as a rudder by forcibly hauling her round. The first thing to be done is to establish ...

... The Fortress and Town of Gibraltar: And the Men Who Will Defend It 17 ach day the question of Gibraltar looms larger: the recent talks between Senor Suner and Herr Hitler in Germany, and between General Franco and Hitler on the Spanish Frontier, have stressed the importance of Spain's attitude to the Axis Powers and to Britain. There is no doubt that Gibraltar is prepared for any, and every, ...

... IIIHM i V- Vk LA LINEA AND THE NEUTRAL TERRITORY TO THE NORTH The Spanish town of La Linea is the home of the native workers in the British dockyard at Gibraltar. Next comes the neutral territory, the scene of many execution squads during the Spanish Civil War. The straight line running across the mid-picture is the British boundary with the famous Gibraltar racecourse below it: the latter is ...

... A n Historical Retrospect By Col onel Norman MacLeod, D. S.O. THE origin of the Highland dress is lost in the mists of antiquity. It appears as the dress of ancient warriors on sculptured stones dating from some time before Christ. Probably the simple mantle of the Greeks and Romans and the Segum of the Germans developed into the belted plaid of the Highlanders. Magnus Barefoot, according to ...

... WHAT WAS THAT A camera study of a fine set of Labrador Retrievers when this picture was taken they were in the possession of Air. Nigel Colman, M.P. AN EARLY FALL OF SNOW IN ESSEX A camera study by Douglas Went, of Brightlingsea ...