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... THIS IS WHAT EVACUATION MEANS TO LONDONERS CHILDREN FROM BLACKFRIARS, ESCORTED BY THEIR TEACHER, MRS. DOBBS, OUT FOR A WALK IN THE DORSETSHIRE VILLAGE WHICH IS NOW THEIR HOME MRS. VINCENT, THE BABIES' TEACHER, SUPERVISING A CLASS The conditions under which children evacuated from danger areas now live in a Dorsetshire village are illustrated in these two pictures. The children come from ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 112== i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Complacency and Doubt. --It is abundantly clear that while a certain measure of cheerfulness (with its terrible implication of com placency) insists on breaking in before a third terrible winter of trial and privation and darkness closes in on Britain, a large measure of doubt is beginning to break in on the Nazis and Axis Powers. To ...
... From the TWO ENDS of the RUSSIAN LINE A NIGHT LANDING OF RUSSIAN SABOTEURS ON THE FINNISH COAST, from the fortified islets which extend from Kronstadt towards Finland. The object of these determined men is to harry supply traffic on the roads along the Gulf of Finland Drawing by Wm. MacDowell ON THE ODESSA FRONT ON THE BLACK SEA An attack by a Russian petty officer on a battery of six Rumanian ...
... TOBRUK has been HELD FOR OVER SIX MONTHS How this Great Feat has been Accomplished and How the Stukas have been Defied FOR over six months now Tobruk has been held by British and Impferial Forces against the Italians and the Germans. And to-day it is stronger than ever it was and this despite artillery bombardment and incessant dive-bombing attacks by Stukas. On April n the stronghold's ...
... THE NAVY'S NEW ADDITION H.M.S. Prince of Wales, Which is Now in Commission With the Fleet Following on the recent news that the King George V is now in service with the Royal Navy comes similar news of her sister-ship, H.M.S. Prince of Wales. Costing seven million pounds, the new vessel is a 35,000-ton battleship launched at Birkenhead in May 1939. She has ten 14-in. guns, each of which fires ...
... BROADCASTING THE BATTLE OF KEREN Mr. Richard Dimbleby, the B.B.C. commentator, is here seen describing the progress of the battle. He is within sight of the troops up forward, and is making a record for transmission to listeners at home whilst actually under shell fire AT A ROAD JUNCTION NEAR KEREN Indian troops occupying what was formerly an Italian stronghold on the road to the mountain ...
... A DETACHMENT OF WOMEN DRIVERS FROM BRITAIN ARRIVE IN CAIRO FOR SERVICE WITH OUR FORCES IN THE MIDDLE EAST THE WORKING UNIFORM OF THE WOMEN'S MECHANISED TRANSPORT CORPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST A company of the Women's Mechanised Transport Corps has just arrived in Cairo for service with the Middle East Forces. It consists of fifty-one girls from the British Isles, with their Commandant and a number ...
... The United States Forges Ahead The Early Completion of the North Carolina and other 35,000-tonners-- â– Discussed by FRANK BOWEN THE commissioning of the new American battleship. North Carolina, a good months ahead of schedule time has naturally aroused the greatest and enthusiasm in the United States, for she is the beginning of the new first against Japanese aggression and marks a ...
... The Spanish Peninsular campaign revealed a weak spot when the Spanish people, and the Asturias in particu lar, defied the might of Napoleon THE glorious distinction of being the first of the peoples to rise belongs to the small province of Asturias in northern Spain which defi antly declared war upon the conqueror of Europe. All Spain was soon aflame, except the north, which was controlled by ...
... I With limited resources, Sir John Moore made I brilliant moves against i the French armies in I Spain, but was com- I pelted to retire, while I turning rearguard actions into victory LIKE Nelson, Sir John Moore gained immortal fame by dying at the moment of victory. He had been in com mand of an expeditionary force sent, at their earnest request, to assist the Spaniards against the French. He ...
... BY AIR TO ICELAND How Communication by Flying Boat is Maintained between Britain and Iceland under Wartime Conditions MAJOR-GENERAL H. WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR OF WELFARE TO THE FORCES, VISITING SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL IN ICELAND Formerly a Danish pos- session, Iceland is now occupied by a force of British troops, greatly to the chagrin of the Germans, who saw in it a base for operations against ...
... after the bomb raids The Spirit of the People-- and their Humour-- is Unbroken SHOT TO PIECES IN THE AIR BY OUR FIGHTERS AM that remains ot a Nazi bomber shot to pieces in mid-air. Wreckage from this plane crashed over a wide area, and pieces were soon picked off it by souvenir hunters. The crew of three had baled out before the crash but the parachute of one of them failed to open HOW TO ...