... The WORK of the CAPITAL SHIPS These Huge and Costly Vessels no longer Stay in Port, but Hammer at the Enemy in hAany Parts of the World Notes by FRANK C. BOWEN SOME time after the late war, during the great Submarine-versus-Battle ship controversy, the late Sir Percy Scott repeatedly asked the question, Of what use is the battleship? and on each occasion answered himself in the words of a ...

... The LITTLE FELLOWS VERSUS AIRCRAFT The Trawlers and Coasters and Drifters, and their Never-Ceasing Campaign Against the German Bombers Described by FRANK C. BOWEN THE Admiralty has, since the beginning of this war, constantly had the pleasure of reporting enemy aircraft being shot down by the smaller naval units-- not only regular warships but auxiliary trawlers and drifters, sometimes even ...

... AUSTRALIA'S MIGHTY WAR EFFORT The Wonderful Work which the Great Commonwealth is Carrying Out as Her Contribution to the Empire's Effort WE are in this most holy war with you; everything that we have of man-power or treasure or skill or determination is pledged to work and fight for you and with you until victory is attained. This assurance was broadcast by Mr. Menzies, the Prime Minister of ...

... 8/ what Routes will Hitler Launch his Onslaugh IN Bulgaria, which is now entirely subservient to him, Hitler has collected some twenty divisions; five at least of these are armoured, and the remainder are fully mechanised. Over the five Danube bridges which he has been using for the past three weeks he can daily pass four divisions of all arms over four of the bridges, reserving the fifth for ...

... fHE DEFENCE OF THRACE Another Military Problem which Faces the German High Command i 'HILE waging a brilliant offensive defence against the Italian forces, V massed in superior numbers against the Greek forces operating 11 Albania, the Greek High Command has now a second preoccupation, low is the long-drawn-out frontier of Eastern Thrace to be defended gainst a massed attack by German ...

... HOW THE CAPTIVES FROM THE LOFOTEN ISLANDS WERE BROUGHT OFF: German Merchant Seamen, Air Staff and Norwegian Quislings Blindfolded and Following their Leader being Transferred for the Journey to Britain pouring the raid on the Lofoten Islands, off Norway, on March 4, not the least considerable of the spoils captured by the Royal Navy was the mixed bag of enemy seamen and soldiers and ...

... The RAID on the LOFOTENS A Series of Official Pictures, Actually Taken During the Operations, which Shows How the British Raiders Successfully Carried Out their Work of Destruction and Secured their German (and Norwegian) Prisoners THE SCENE AT STAMSUND AFTER THE FIRING OF THE OIL PLANTS The pictures on these pages are all from official photographs taken actually during the progress of the ...

... THE CHANGING SITUATION in FRENCH NORTH AFRICA What a Study of the Little-known Franco-German Armistice Terms Reveals; and the Steps Taken Recently by the Germans to Strengthen Their Hold on France's Most Important Possession in North Africa Described by FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN the Nazis are in full blast in one part of the Mediterranean there is no harm in looking at another extremity of that sea ...

... THE U.S. NAVY IN THE PACIFIC A Brief Review of Its Strength and of Its Ocean Bases ALTHOUGH the American taxpayer has cheerfully faced the colossal cost of building a two-ocean navy which is to be divided in equal strength between the Atlantic arid the Pacific, the ships will take a con siderable time to build, and in the meantime practically the whole strength of the American Fleet is ...

... THE United States Navy is very much in the limelight at the moment, and it is interest ing to note some of the peculiarities of their design, for, like the British, their warships are entirely distinctive. For years American battleships were recognis able all over the world by their tapered cage masts, which were irreverently known as the waste-paper baskets. The Americans built up their ...

... LiriA/ U> I 1 inrr InS\Bul A I D A U I A Where the Greek Army have been Campaigning So Successfully NEW PICTURES FROM ALBANIA Against the Italians Despite the Severe Weather Handicaps THROUGH THE SNOW AND ICE OF THE ALBANIAN WINTER, THE GREEK SOLDIERS PLOD UP TO THE FRONT LINE Pictures from the Albanian theatre of war have not been prolific during the past weeks, probably owing to the very ...

... ITALIAN DISASTERS IN THE AIR The Technical Inferiority of the Regia Aeronautica PROBABLY the soundest beating ever administered to any Air Force befell the unhappy Regia Aeronautica on February 28. On that day over Albania a small force of Hawker Hurricane and Gloster Gladiator single-seat fighters of the middle East command, R.A.F., shot down twenty-seven Italian aeroplanes and severely ...