... NIGHT FIGHTERS AND DAYLIGHT BOMBERS New Official Air Ministry Pictures On right Because of the disorganisa tion of his road and rail transport in Germany and the Occupied countries by the relentless attacks of the Bomber Command, Hitler has been forced to use coastwise shipping on a considerable scale the result is that the R.A.F., always quick to seize new opportunities, now maintains a cease ...

... THE NEW, 16-TON, HEAVY INFANTRY TANK WHICH IS NOW BEING DEVELOPED FOR WARFARE ON LAND Lord Beaverbrook is now in charge of tank production everybody is confident, therefore, that this new essential arm of warfare on land will be developed as rapidly and successfully as was our aircraft production. The impressive picture above shows a group of our newest and best tanks in operation during ...

... AT THE HEART OF SOVIET RUSSIA The Mighty Kremlin, the Citadel Within the City of Moscow, Which is the Seat of the Russian Government Qhortly after the establishment of Bolshevist rule throughout Russia, the seat of Government was transferred from Leningrad to Moscow, which had in centuries past been the capital. For a time Leningrad languished in consequence but very soon it revived, and to ...

... THE A.-A. GUN IN ACTION Pictures of the Very Efficient and Quick- Firing Bofors i THE BOFORS GUN IN ACTION AT NIGHT A picture taken by the light of the gun-flashes. This light anti-aircraft gun has a rapid rate of fire and is particularly useful against low-flying aircraft Still another lesson learned at Crete was the necessity for more, and yet more, A.-A. guns. The output is at last rapidly ...

... The U.S. Revenue Cutters The pictures reproduced on this page show some of the United States Revenue cutters, which will now operate with the Royal Navy under the Lease-and-Lend Agreement, at the start of their transatlantic crossing at New York, and on arrival at a British port. Down river from New York the American crews left the ships and British sailors took over. The 2,000-ton cutters are ...

... Other Things Than War J/ Twice Hit by Missiles of War The English Summer and English Cricket; Galloping Over the Garden; The Village Scrap=heap TWICE HIT.-- The other day a mill owner wrote to The Times to record how he had placed part of a German bomb beside a Cromwellian cannon-ball in his office. Both, by the orders of dictators, had penetrated the walls of his old mill. (Which is ...

... WITH HIS UNDERCARRIAGE SHOT AWAY, A BRITISH D.F.C. PILOT COMES IN TO LAND after a daylight sweep over northern France: A Dramatic Picture Taken During a Recent Operation Once again the world is thrilling to the exploits of the R..A.F. After their heavy defeat of the Luftwaffe last autumn during the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the R.A.F. both fighters and bombers are now carrying the war ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 97 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. OUR ENVOY IN MOSCOW.-- The Government has expressed its gratitude to Sir Stafford Cripps for his work in Russia in the past year and the King has rewarded his services. The general public during most of the time of his mission did not envy him, regarded him as a man ploughing the sands and as a man often duped, con stantly cold-shouldered, ...

... MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL WITNESSES AN INVASION EXERCISE CARRIED OUT BY BRITISH TROOPS IN SCOTLAND Now that everybody is thinking and talking invasion invasion of German-held territory, not invasion of Britain more particular interest attaches to the picture reproduced here. It was taken during the Prime Minister's recent visit to Scot land, when he witnessed invasion exercises and also inspected ...

... A Note on the Latest Plans New Methods by American Shipbuilders to Provide Shipping Quickly -twa for the All-lmbortant BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC THE American shipbuilders, working against time in their effort to produce tonnage for the Battle of the Atlantic, are using the greatest ingenuity and are overcoming the difficulties caused by a shortage of skilled labour. lhe Americans are making great ...

... ^^TTfTkT^^| And the Many Shapes %#m/ I l^y _ and Sizes of Them in ww li 1 Modern Fighting Aircraft EVERY form of movement on or above the surface of the earth is affected in varying degree by the envelope of air surrounding it, but flight alone is dependent upon the mass of atmosphere not only for its support, but also for its progress. It is natural, therefore, that the development of ...

... THE R.A.F.'S NEW LIFE-SAVING EQUIPMENT The Wonderful Rubber Dinghy which now Forms Part of a Fighter's Equipment SAVING THE LIVES OF OUR FIGHTER PILOTS How the new life-jacket for airmen is worn and the new rubber dinghy which each fighter aircraft now carries New life- saving equipment for fighter pilots who are forced down, or have to bale out, over the sea has just been tried out by the R.A ...