... THE DAYLIGHT ATTACKS OF THE R.A.F. A WONDERFUL IMPRESSION OF THE DEVASTATING RAID ON SHIPPING AT ROTTERDAM ON JULY 16. ACTUALLY TAKEN FROM ONE OF THE PARTICIPATING AIRCRAFT r\n this day, Blenheim aircraft of the Bomber Command, R.A.F., carried out a daring low-level attack upon a large concentration of German shipping in the Rotterdam Docks. As a result of the raid, seventeen ships, of an ...

... PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK WHICH FORCED THE GERMANS TO DISCLOSE THEIR REAL STRENGTH AROUND TOBRUK British troops advancing towards Hellfire Pass in the Solium area It was recently reported that British troops in the Western Desert had made a surprise penetration into the enemy's position as far as much-battered Fort Capuzzo. In order to stem the British forward movement German reinforce ments ...

... The R.A.F.'s DAYLIGHT RAID on ROTTERDAM Carried Out by Blenheim Aircraft of the Bomber Command, the Raid Resulted in the Destruction of 100,000 Tons of German Shipping IN THE STREETS OF ROTTERDAM Dutch civilians gaze up without fear as the Blenheims roar over the housetops in Y formation for their concentrated attack on the nearby docks and German shipping ONLY A FEW HUNDRED FEET ABOVE THE ...

... THE PROBLEM OF GERMANY'S SUPPLY LINES And How They Will Be Affected by the Present Campaign in Russia GERMANY'S VITAL LIFE-LINES, Described by ROBERT FINCH IN his attack upon Russia Hitler has set himself a task which defeated a far greater war lord than he. Will he succeed where Napoleon failed? tor the first time in its career of blood and blitzkrieg the German war machine finds itself ...

... SIGNALS- The Methods Employed in the Royal Navy EFFICIENT signalling is regarded as a very major consideration in naval work nowadays. Every single facet of naval warfare demands perfect signalling and communications. So the communica tions branches ol the JNavy are of prime importance and are worked up to a very high pitch of efficiency. They are divided into two sections the wireless side, ...

... The BEAUFORT WHICH TOR PEDOED a POCKET BATTLESHIP phese pictures show the four members of the crew of the Beaufort torpedo-bomber which recently successfully torpedoed a German battleship off the coast of Norway. The pilot, Flight Sergeant R. H. Loveitt, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal for the exploit his colleagues (also seen in the pictures reproduced here) include the ...

... Other Things Than War The Stately Homes of England With Notes on Library ^Wastage, and on Racing Men in Wartime PACKWOOD AND THE NATIONAL TRUST.-- One more stately home of England has gone the way which, we must wish them to go, now that they can no longer be kept up as family homes. Packwood House, Warwickshire, has been handed over to the National Trust by Mr. Baron Ash with its 100 acres ...

... THE FIRST THIRD-TERM PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: MR. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT TAKES THE OATH On Monday last, at the Capitol in Washington, Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the Oath of Office as President of the United States for the third time thus making world history, for never before has one man guided the destinies of the great American nation for such a long period. Always an event of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-- No. 73 32-34, St. Bride Street, E.C.4. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE PLAIN.-- Mr. Roosevelt in his first address to Congress can have left no further room for doubt in any mind (even the Nazi mind) as to what is in his heart on the burning question of the hour. I have read verbatim reports of his chief speeches, on the subject of aid to the democracies, addressed to the world, to the ...

... THUNDERBOLT (formerly Thetis) Returns Home Tn June 1939 H.M.S. Thunderbolt L was known as the Thetis. She had been launched in 1938 and was completed a year later built at a cost of £350,000, she belonged to the Triton class she had a displacement of 1 ,500 tons and carried a complement of 53. In June 1939, Thetis was carrying out trials in Liverpool Bay when she failed to surface after a ...

... ITALY'S DEFEATS in the AIR The Poor Showing of the Regia Aeronautica Against the R.A.F. in the Italian Zones of War ONE of the most extraordinary happen ings of this far-from-ordinary war has been the utter failure of the much vaunted Regia Aeronautica. In each and every encounter with the Royal Air Force the Italians have been soundly beaten. They have failed not only in all their attempted ...

... The Campaign in the Western Desert ITALY ON THE DEFENSIVE-IV THE WIDE SWEEP OF SOLLUM BAY AFTER ITS CAPTURE BY GENERAL WAVELL'S ARMY After the fall of Sidi Barrani, and in the general onward sweep to Bardia and Tobruk, it was inevitable that Solium should fall into British hands. Although it was used by the Italians for shipping and for naval purposes, it is likely that Bardia with its much ...