... CRETE: ISLAND OF LIBERTY And Now the New Grecian G.H.Q. By FERDINAND TUOHY IF we decide to try and hang on to Crete, three principal reasons will operate: (1) it will enable the Greeks to carry on their fight for liberation from free Grecian soil; (2) it will give the Allies use of the first-rate harbour of Suda Bay, together with such air-base facilities as we have been able to organise in ...

... NEWS OUT OF TOBRUK A Series of Pictures from the Beleaguered British Fortress in the Western Desert iipuwJ--au'-*- BRITISH TANKS GOING INTO ACTION AGAINST THE GERMANS A scene during one of the sorties made by the garrison although beleaguered, there is plenty of action of this sort going on all the time around Tobruk. I he British defenders have a very complete equipment, and fresh supplies ...

... GETTING THE AMERICAN PLANES ACROSS A Problem which will Grow in Importance as the Stream Swells to a Torrent Here are Two Suggestions of How the Smaller Fighters Might be Ferried Across the Atlantic THE MEN WHO HAVE TO FERRY THE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT WHEN THESE ARRIVE IN BRITAIN The Minister of Aircraft Production, Colonel Moore-Brabazon, addressing Air Transport Auxiliary pilots and ground staff ...

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... The LOSS of the PRINCE OF WALES and REPULSE Sunk off Malaya in Action Against, the Japanese Wednesday, December 10 VY/ithin three days of the opening of hostilities with Japan, the British Navy suffered a grievous loss with the sinking of the battleship Prince of Wales and the big battle- cruiser Retoulse. Apparently, and according to their own statements, the Japanese Fleet had been ...

... BATTLE IN THE DESERT --THE THIRD WEEK General Rommel is Forced Out to the West and the Tobruk Connection is Re-established Special Sphere Diagrams On right When the two to three days of recuperation had passed, British patrols began to break out northwards, to begin the harassing of arty German or Italian forces which they were able to discover north of the T righ-Capuzzo Road. The two Panzer ...

... Alter the opening days of the offensive against General Rommel in Cyrenaica, when the Royal Navy actually participated in the land operations by bombardment from the sea, our warships have been concentrating on the destruction of the enemy's shipping and convoys carrying supplies across the Mediterranean to the sore-pressed Axis forces opposed to General Cunningham's Eighth Army. Our artist. ...

... THE UNITED STATES ON THE BRINK, Early December 1941 Impressions of a Flying Visit just Before the Devastating Attacks by Japan, which Brushed All the Trivialities and Bright Lights Aside and Brought America Grimly into the War Described by VERNON FANE AT a house on Long Island, quite close to where Walt Whitman lived, I took a glass of wine with a man who had dined in England on the previous ...

... The BIRTH of the 8-GUN FIGHTER And Its Development into the World s Deadliest tighter Aircraft AT a time which marks the anniversary of the defeat and final rout of the Luftwaffe in their major daylight attacks upon England of last year, it is fitting that we should remember how much we owe to the Hurricane and Spitfire and the men who designed them and those who worked for the incorporation ...

... I n the British Home Fleet, the Destroyer Depot Ship (see also p. 1 5 1 of this issue) serves as a naval schoolroom, where the future destroyer men are trained in gunnery, torpedo-firing, anti submarine work, seamanship and signalling. Models of ships are used, and the lighting is arranged so as to convey the effects of searchlights, star shells and gun-flashes. By this means the men learn a ...

... A CRISIS IN THE OFFICERS' MESS? The War has Created a Serious Situation Amongst the Wine Dealers and the Repercussions of This are Here Discussed in an Authoritative Article By CHARLES GRAVES NEVER in the history of this country has so little liquor been available to so many. In the last war our Expeditionary Force on the Con tinent was able to live on the land as far as wines and brandy and ...

... AT LORD GORT'S LUNCHEON PARTY IN THE DUKE'S HONOUR From left to right are General Barron-y-Ortez, Spanish Governor of Algeciras, the Marquesa de Povar, the Duke of Gloucester, and Sehora Barron-y-Ortez, taking a stroll after lunch in the garden of Government House, Gibraltar THE DUKE ON THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE ROCK This A.-A. defence post is manned by the Gibraltar Defence Force. It is ...