... ONCE UPON A TIME Slowly, laboriously, the plough-horse plods its way across the heavy soil. To and fro it passes, part of the old picturesque landscape of our country. For many farms are still not mechanised. Britain is at peace. What need for hurry But over the seas the clouds are darkening. Then September Third, 1939. Britain is at war. The U-boats are out. Will Britain starve? From one of ...

... The Destroyer of To-Day Its Development Into the Efficient Ship of War which is the Terror of the Mediterranean, and Other, Seas DURING the present war, as in the last, the destroyers have proved themselvei invaluable ships for a hundred duties-; they have been worked tremendously hard, but have proved wonderful vessels for standing up to a great strain. The type is actually under fifty years ...

... GERMANY'S MOBILE AERODROMES ly Means of which Her Aircraft Keep Up with the Panzer Divisions It would appear that the Germans, with their usual Teutonic thorough ness, have perfected a system whereby they can operate their aircraft in support of their armoured divisions despite that the latter are often moving forward at considerable speed. The mobile aerodromes are usually sited ...

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... (moss BROS 66 A a-ay they have in the Navy A gentleman who used to he one of our most respected civilian customers appeared on our threshold, trimly clad in blue and gold, and announced that he was a rough, tough, seafaring chap who'd stepped ashore to buy a bridge coat and look slippy about it. This was no sooner said than done. Bow you people keep up your pre war standards of speed and ...

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... RESCUE IN THE ATLANTIC Six Men in a Dinghy Built for Two Rescued by a Sunderland Flying-boat. THE rescue illustrated by Mr. Davies in this series of three drawings was graphically described in a recent broadcast by the Australian captain of a Sunderland of the R.A.A.F. Squadron who rescued the crew of the Whitley bomber which had come down in the sea far out in the Atlantic. It was Lockheed ...

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