... THE WOMEN SCIENTIST! VHO WORK on BRITISH AIRCRAFT MISS J. SEUME, Technical Assistant at a Royal Aircraft Establishment, experimenting with one c the fascinating little models used in research work in connection with seaplanes MISS K. M. HUNTER (B.Sc., London) carrying out experimental work on a gun turret. In this branch of aeronautical science Britain leads the whole world to-day 1 MISS M. B. ...

... A YEAR OF DEFIANCE BY HEROIC MALTA Italian and German Airmen Have Rained Down Bombs, but Still the Spirit of the Islanders is Unbroken Described by FERDINAND TUOHY MALTA in June a normal June. Not so good, you 'll say? A baked, caked island of yellow stone walls and parched, walled-in fields. The people almost as weary as the vegetation. White drawn faces; and the frayed tempers from that ...

... The BATTLE of the ATLANTIC Phases of the Campaign Against the Enemy Commerce Destroyer Described by FRANK BOWEN IN spite of the many much-advertised side-lines of German effort, there is no doubt that the main German attack is against merchant shipping to Britain, primarily with the idea of starving us into submission, and secondarily to prevent the arrival of war supplies. The thwarting of ...

... IN COMMAND OF THE RED ARMT Marshal Semyou Timoshenko, the ex-peasant soldier, succeeded Voroshilov in 1940. He is the Soviet's Commander- in-Chief, and in control of ten million men IN COMMAND OF THE RED NAVY Admiral N. Kuznetsov is thirty-nine years of age. He is in charge of the four Soviet fleets in the Baltic, Black Sea, Arctic and Pacific THE TYPE OF MEN WHO MAKE UP THE RED ARMY The ...

... A series of official Air Ministry pictures 'The closest-guarded secret of the war has just been revealed by the R.A.F. It is Radiolocation, by means of which our fighting aircraft are sent to the exact spot where a raiding bomber is lurking, and, if conditions arc favourable, send it hurtling to its doom. The invention, for which credit has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Watson Watt, an expert on ...

... The DEFENCE of GIBRALTAR The Rocky Fortress has been Strengthened Even Further, and is Now Fully Prepared for Whatever Might Be in Store THIS MONSTER WEAPON POINTING OUT TO SEA IS KEPT PERMANENTLY AT THE READY. It is only part of the many outer defences at Gibraltar ON THE FLAT, OUTLYING, OPEN GROUND-- guarding the land approaches to the Fortress- is this Lewis machine-gun unit, one of many ...

... A HUSH-HUSH ARMY UNIT OF GLAMOUR-GIRLS At an Army location a secret Army revue has just completed rehearsals. With its props packed in lorries, the company is to tour selected military sites where, because civilians are not admitted, the troops have had no entertainment. A feature of the show is the chorus composed of seven A.T.S. girls who, before joining up, were on the stage. Part of the ...

... The First Attempt by a Sphere Artist to Depict a Tank Battle on the Russian Front, and the Methods of Attack and Defence, with Aircraft Co-operating on Both Sides IN scores of official communiques from both sides describing the fighting on the Eastern front, we have been told of the fierce battles which have taken place in such and such an area, and how mechanised assaults on certain ...

... BOMBERS of BERLIN The New Avro Manchesters LONDON PRIDE is one of the new Manchesters which took part in a recent raid on Berlin. It had jockeyed for position above its target in central Berlin-- the General Post Office. Before releasing its load it was held for three or four minutes by a cone of about fifty searchlights. In the officer s own words We were being peppered with flak and had ...

... LEADERS OF BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT: the prime minister and our fighting chiefs watch an a.a. demonstration during a visit TO AN AIR STATION OF THE BOMBER COMMAND The Prime Minister, still pursuing his plan of seeing things for himself, has just visited an air station of the Bomber Command, and other places of importance within this island. Amongst the things he witnessed was the launching of a ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 93 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Politics and Strategy.-- To defend our oil supplies and the Canal, all military common sense urges the supreme importance of our occu pying Syria and holding it strongly before the German grip on it becomes ineradicable. The political aspect en visages in such a move the final and open throwing of France into the arms of the Nazis, as ...

... TWO AMAZING PICTURES The End of a German Submarine During the Battle of the Atlantic Pictures which were taken just before the U-boat went down to her doom WITH ITS CONNING-TOWER WRECKED BY SHELLS, another U-boat goes down to its doom out in the Atlantic. The crew are about to abandon ship A DRAMATIC PICTURE SCRAMBLING OUT ON TO THE DECK, WHICH IS ALREADY AWASH, the crew of the German ...