... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... RESCUING THE R.A.F. The Dinghies Which Save the Life of Our Airmen In previous issues we have already drawn our readers attention to the formation of the Air/Sea Rescue Ser vice, rendered neces sary by the unceas ing Air Battle of Britain. This Ser vice is operated by fleets of 40-miles- per-hour R.A.F. and naval speed la unches and by Lysander aircraft specially equipped for the task. The ...

... Admiral Darlan's Newest Idea for the Building Up of his Fascist State the Reorganisation of the French Police Force on German Lines for the Control of Thought and Opinion Throughout the Region Governed by Vichy Described by FERDINAND TUOHY BEHIND Vichy's announcement that it pro poses to set up the best police force in the world is a scheme to coerce French people into fulfilment of the new ...

... The GERMANS in ANCIENT SYRIA The Bombing of Palmyra Aerodrome by the R.A.F. In ancient times from about A.D. 100 up to the fourteenth century Palmyra was a wealthy and magnificent city of Northern Syria, situated in an oasis on the northern edge of the Arabian Desert about 150 miles from Damascus. It is now remem bered mainly through its association with Zenobia, the ambitious queen who had ...

... The ASTONISHING OASIS of SIWA South of Solium and Sidi Barrani Lies this little-known Oasis which may, at any moment, be Threatened by War THE remote little desert town of Siwa, which lies some two hundred miles south of Sollum and Sidi Barrani (a mere trifle in these days of mechanisation!), seems likely at any moment to be drawn into the whirlpool of the war in north-east Africa, should the ...

... How the Attacks from the Air have been Carried Out by Parachutists and Air-borne Troops With Special Sphere Diagrams and Drawings We may be sure that the experience gained in the battle for Crete will be well studied by our own military experts. The facts are now revealed fully and in these pages are illustrated some of the tactics employed by the Germans in their unprecedented assault on the ...