... WOMEN IN BATTLE-DRESS-A FIRST PICTURE THE FIRST BRITISH WOMEN TO JOIN THE FIGHTING FORCES-- and Their Recently Issued Battle-Dress Uniform The vomen are operating predictors at anti-aircraft gun posts, and are working in t. Josest co-operation with our fighting forces they are all members of the Aux ry Territorial Service, and specially picked because of their knowledge of I the subjects ...

... Other Things Than War Shape of Things to Gome Hahit Dies Hard /y It's All Done for Youy/; and A Word on Nue Speling NO RICH.-- However favour ably for our cause, however soon, the war ends, we may, as a result of the new Budget and of our knowledge of what this war and the post-war recon struction will cost, confidently assert that for seven years at the least there will be no rich man in ...

... NEARLY 100,000 ITALIANS OUT OF ACTION ALREADY IN LIBYA: TYPES OF THE SOLDIERS NOW TAKEN PRISONER yN^fter the evacuation of Dunkirk and all the heavy fighting involved in that operation, it was estimated that some 44,000 British soldiers had been made prisoner by the Germans. But in Libya alone since the present struggle began on December 9, fully 70,000 Italians have actually been captured and ...

... THE VICTORY AT BARDIA With the Capture of 30,000 Italian Prisoners at the Price of 400 Australian Casualties THE AREA IN WHICH THE OPERATIONS TOOK PLACE After the taking of Sidi Barrani, it was suggested that a considerable pause might take place, but in a bare fortnight British and Imperial forces had advanced westwards towards Bardia, and even penetrated farther afield in the direction of ...

... Aftermath at Sidi Barrani And Towns Bombed and Captured by the British Forces A CAPTURED GUN IN THE MAIN STREET OF SIDI BARRANI This large-calibre gun was one of over three hundred captured during the Sidi Barrani battle. It was carried on heavy double-tyred wheels and probably intended for defence against naval bombardment BY THE SAD SEA WAVES OF THE SIDI BARRANI COAST The flow of battle has ...

... THE BURNING OF LONDON CITY The Enemy's Attempt to Fire the Historic Centre of London by Incendiary Bombs on the Jsfight of Sunday, December 29 AFTER THE FLAMES HAD DIED DOWN-- THE BURNED-OUT AREA NORTH-WEST OF ST. PAUL'S SEEN FROM THE GOLDEN GALLERY In the immediate fore ground are some buildings of St. Paul's Churchyard, all of them burned farther back in the view, slanting upwards to the ...

... Official Pictures of the Fall of Tobruk, January 21, 1941 (and Other Phases of the War on the African Continent) THE SCENE IN THE HARBOUR OF TOBRUK AFTER THE BRITISH FORCES HAD TAKEN POSSESSION ITALIAN NAVAL PRISONERS LEAVING THE WATERFRONT FOR TRANSFERENCE TO PRISONERS-OF-WAR CAMPS Thirty-six hours after the assault on Tobruk was opened, the town and its harbour were in British hands. And ...

... The Guns That Protect Our Shores To-day How the Coastal Protection of Britain has been Organised Described by DONALD COWIE ARTILLERY for coastal protection, as devel oped under high pressure in this country to meet the threat of invasion, is divided roughly into two classes. There are the big guns which cover the sea, and the smaller weapons which cover the foreshore. The first range from ...

... INCENDIARIES-WhatThey Are, and How They Fall INCENDIARY BOMBS, or, as Mr. Morrison prefers to call them, fire-bombs, are becoming a matter of personal interest to most people nowadays. Fire parties are working so well that, before long, the enemy may give up using them on a large scale and resort to a greater proportion of high explosive bombs. Heinkel He iiiK two-motor heavy bombers appear ...

... AFTER A DAYLIGHT FIRE-RAISING RAID ON LONDON Policemen, A.R.P. workers, neighbours and passers-by help to remove furniture from a block of flats threatened by fire after the dropping of incendiary bombs. In every big town 'to-day the citizens are becoming increasingly conscious of the need for prompt action when incendiaries are unloosed upon them. When dealt with promptly, the consequent ...

... BOMB-BLAST and its VAGARIES Some Examples of the Effects of High-Explosive Bombs on Different Types of London Buildings In Presenting the Series of Pictures Reproduced on the Opposite Page, the Editor would Like to Point Out that these have been Selected to Show Different Kinds of Damage Wrought by High-Explosive Bombs on Different Kinds of Building in the London Area. A Study of these will ...

... HOW MANY AEROPLANES HAVE THE GERMANS? More About the Enemy's Actual Strength in the Air The Subject of Seadromes Again A German General on the Royal Air Force By C. G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane WHICH, I wonder, is the more important problem of the moment--getting ready to meet the promised Blitz on England, or defeating the submarines' and sea- raiders' attacks on our shipping? Probably ...