... SHIPS WITH WINGS Cottage to Let (Wyndham's) LIKE one or two more pre-blitz successes, j this spy-comedy makes a welcome return. Its sole blemish is that, being intended, on the whole, as a comic entertainment (in spite of thrills provided by nasty Nazi-paid plotters), it kills off its most comic character, the policeman-butler, beautifully played by Mr. Charles Groves. That strikes a jarring ...

... I Married Adventure TN normal times this record of the lives of the late Martin Johnson, explorer and naturalist, and his wife Osa, who shared all his adventures, would have started a cycle of jungle films. As things are, it is likely to be the last of its kind for some time, and for that reason alone it is worth seeing. It is now at the London Pavilion. Osa Johnson has, incidentally, just ...

... CLOTHING GENERAL CLOTHING 'THE NEW SEASON'S SCOTTISH TWEEDS are I wise buying in war time (and any other time too). They're really worth tailoring well, for they keep their trim lines through years of sturdy wear. Send for the new samples of Cheviots, Scottish and Sports Fleeces, Shetney and Home Spuns, to Dept. D., Frazers of Perth, Ltd., Scottish Tweed Warehouse, Perth. HARRIS hand-made ...

... The Big Fellows of the Coastal Command The Huge Short Sunderlands which Patrol the Seas in the Battle of the Atlantic Described by LEONARD R. GRIBBLE SUBMARINE on the starboard quarter! The look-out's cry brought men running to the rail of the plunging steamer, deep-laden with Argentine wheat. On the bridge Captain Schofield gave fresh orders. Below decks the radio operator tapped out an ...

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... THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE BALLOON How It Developed from the Captive Observation Balloon, through the Blimp and Elaborate Rigid Airship, Bach to the Captive Barrage Balloon of I o-day. By LEONARD BRIDGMAN IT may not be generally accepted by the man in the street that the generic term aircraft is all-embracing to include even the humble barrage balloon, thousands of which stand to-day in silent ...

... THE KING INSPECTS THE HOME GUARD: FOR THE FIRST TIME THEY MOUNT THE KING'S GUARD AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE TO COMMEMORATE THEIR FOUNDATION TWELVE MONTHS AGO A few days ago, the Home Guard commemorated their first birthday. To mark this event, they had the honour of mounting their first King's Guard at Buckingham Palace. Led by the band of the Grenadier Guards, they marched from Wellington Barracks ...

... THE MEN OF THE JNITED STATES NAVY How the Personnel of the eet are Recruited and Trained THE United States Navy has been attracting so much interest in Britain recently, particularly since the question of convoying the supply ships across the Atlantic has been to the fore, that most people in the country have a very fair idea of its material strength, but the personnel side is quite another ...

... A convoy, escorted by British destroyers, has just reached this country from America. It included tankers laden with oil, cargo ships laden with planes, food vessels, and others. The convoy had been escorted, amongst other vessels, by two ex-American destroyers and a Free French light cruiser. Its safe arrival denoted another quiet, unspectacular victory typical of those being won every day in ...

... THE BRITISH G.S.O. INSPECTING THE EM PEROR'S PATRIOT TROOPS Five years after his departure from his country, the Emperor is now back in his palace at Addis Ababa. The two pictures reproduced here were taken during the last stages of his campaign at Dambacha Fort. In the larger picture on the right the Emperor is flanked by the British Brigadier and by the latter's staff officer. With the ...

... PARACHUTISTS In the GREEK CAMPAIGN And Pictures of Our Own Parachutists in Training in Britain BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS ACTUALLY LEAVING THE WHITLEY BOMBERS USED AS TROOP-CARRIERS IN THE TRAINING OF OUR NEWEST FIGHTING ARM On right HOW THE PARA CHUTISTS LEAVE THE AIRCRAFT IN A STRAIGHT LINE-- ONE AFTER THE OTHER On left PARACHUTE TROOPS ENTERING A PLANE TO PRACTISE LANDINGS DURING TRAINING ...

... The ENTRY into ADDIS ABABA And the First German Prisoners in the Western Desert The surrender of the forces under I the Duke of Aosta at Amba \lagi was rendered inevitable on April 5, when Addis Ababa was occupied by South African troops who Had advanced to the Abyssinian capital in a series of huge leaps. The men under General Cunning ham had made an advance of 1 ,800 miles in sixty days the ...