... f pictures of the Men and Equipment Now Engaged in the Colossal Struggle Against Germany var -r*Ti n *n-ntr tttti n i m iwa mi ARMOURED CARS OF THE RED ARMY OF THE U.S.S.R. It must be stressed that these vehicles are not tanks yet the size of gun carried in the turret is formidable, and the armour- plating protecting the crew appears very considerable. Apparently the Soviet Army has great ...

... BATTLE of the ATLANTIC How the Plan of Campaign is Worked Out Between the Admiralty and the Convoy Captains THE CONVOY CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE AT HEADQUARTERS The Captains of the Merchantmen which will form the next Convoy receive instructions concernir the route to be taken, and learn how their naval escort will protect them at sea THE WIRELESS ROOM, where signals are sent and received to and ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 96=^= i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i, Striking the Balance.-- Looking back over the recent weeks of miraculous happenings and obscured speculations, nothing strikes me as more significant than the unanimity revealed by all sections among all the nations, actively or passively on our side, by no means to greet the entry of Russia into the war as an act of God on behalf of our ...

... BRITISH IN ACTION Scaling a battlement, whilst comrades hold off the enemy. (Note map tucked in one man S belt) I Few stories have so gripped the imagination of British people as that of the creation of our own corps of paratroops. Both Russia and Germany preceded our own Army in the creation of such corps but neither has better or more determined men, late though we may be in the adoption of ...

... No Island is Impregnable, said Goring: and Hitler has put this Precept into Practice Whenever he has Needed Ramifications for his War Machine By FERDINAND TUOHY THE war's momentum has for the present moved towards the biggest block of solid land on the surface of the globe. But islands will soon loom again in the picture. They cannot long remain outside a conflict in which the most important ...

... A Diary of Leading Events Since June 1940 1940 June ii Entry of Italy into the war. R.A.F. bombers began opera tions in Libya, East Africa and Abyssinia. June 12 R.A.F. attack Tobruk, heavily damaging old San Giorgio in the harbour. June 14 Fort Capuzzo bombed by R.A.F. June 15-- Cruiser H.M.S. Calypso sunk by Italian submarine. June 17 Four raids by Italian bombers on Malta. June 17 [France ...

... OIL- What It Is, and How It Is Refined into the Fine High-performance Spirit By A. BEEBY THOMPSON TO the ordinary man, a great deal of mystery surrounds the processes that intervene before crude oil as it emerges from the earth can be used for light, fuel, lubricants and other purposes in industry. No one unacquainted with petroleum could be expected to appreciate the intricate problems ...

... BRITISH MALAYA: The Empire's Outpost in the East. Described by HERMIONE BEAUCLERK THE British are notoriously ignorant about their Empire, and even more so about those affiliated countries which contribute so much to the strength of their Empire. But the time is here-- and political events will not lag far behind-- for a consideration of Malaya, that agglomeration of states whose principal ...

... INSIDE TOBRUK New Australian Official Pictures of the Defence of the Stronghold in the Western Desert WIRE DEFENCES ACROSS THE EL ADEM ROAD This road approaches Tobruk it is strongly guarded by barbed- wire defences and blockhouses. The sentry seen on guard here is Private Earl, who comes from Waverley THE SCENE OF ACTIVITY IN TOBRUK HARBOUR Unloading stores from a transport for the further ...

... The general public impression is that the modern submarine exists solely for under-water attack: this is quite wrong. The latest types of British submarine-- as evidenced by vessels of, say, the Severn class-- can attain a surface speed of 22 knots, as against a submerged speed of less than half. The Severn and her sister, Clyde, were, in point of fact, the first Diesel-driven submarines to ...

... MEN and MORE MEN for the R.A.F. Thousands are Entering for Service with the British Flying Services BRITISH FLYING CADETS NOW IN TRAINING IN THE UNITED STATES Taken at the U.S. Civilian Aviation School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, these British flying cadets are being fitted out with American-made caps prior to embarking on a period of training for the R.A.F. under the new scheme just inaugurated ...

... THE AIRCRAFT-CARRIER'S ROLE IN THE WAR The Newest Type of Naval Vessel has Triumphantly Vindicated Itself in the Present Conflict By F. BOWEN BEFORE the outbreak of the present war, there were quite a number of authorities who advo cated the abolition of the aircraft-carrier as being the most expensive naval type, untried in war, and terribly vulnerable to all forms of attack, especially from ...