... The Trans-Canada and Alaskan Highways The Construction of which are Strategic Achievements of the First Importance. Described by EWING GRIFFITHS EARLY in December the 1,600-mile Alaskan High way, now known as the Alcan Highway, will open for traffic. Its northern terminal, Fairbanks, is within easy flying distance of Russian territory, across the other side of the Bering Straits (which are ...

... The BATTLE for EGYPT The Huge New Areas which Confronted Rommel in his Advance Towards the Nile Basin A special Sphere Section, with diagrams and drawings of the new Battle Zones FOLLOWING on the fall of Tobruk on Sunday, June 21, Marshal Rommel's forces at once began their advance towards Mersa Matruh (which was abandoned by the 8th Army) and farther east. The Battle for Egypt had begun! But, ...

... The OPENING of the GERMAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST RUSSIA The Attack on the Kerch Positions in the Extreme Eastern Tip of the Crimean Peninsula, Long Expected as the Prelude to the Enemy's Spring Offensive which has Forced the Soviet to Withdraw to the Caucasian Mainland WITH THE FALL OF THE FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD LINES OF DEFENCE ON THE KERCH PENINSULA, THE TOWN ITSELF BECAME UNTENABLE At the ...

... The RETREAT from MANDALAY And How it was Carried Outbythe British Forces Special Sphere drawings WHEN the British forces on the River Irrawaddy and in the Meiktila valley retired in front of heavy Japanese pressure by superior forces, it was necessary to carry out a rapid movement northwards towards the Mandalay area, and then, almost without pause, on to Monywa. A little south ot Mandalay is ...

... CAN INDIA be INVADED from BURMA? The Mountain Frontier Region which Cuts Off the Eastern Part of India from the Jap Invaders AT the middle of the month of May, Japanese advance col umns had reached the northern area of Upper Burma; and later messages gave the news that the enemy had actually crossed the frontier into India at one or two points. An examination of this frontier shows that it is ...

... While large Japanese forces have been pressing down through the Malay Peninsula, a penetration of Borneo, the third largest island in the world, has been taking place. The two main streams of invasion have apparently been coming from the direction of Saigon, which is one of the most conveniently-placed bases in the enemy's hands. The invasion which has been taking place by means of transports, ...

... THE INVASION OF BURMA and the Threat to the Burma Road During the later stages of the attack on Malaya, Japanese forces were getting into position for a thrust against Lower Burma and the sea entrance to the Burma Road. Throughout the early part of February the thrust developed into the Salween River area. Moulmein, on the south bank of the wide river, was captured, and for some days the ...

... ALLIED PLANES WHICH WILL PROBABLY BE USED IN THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA A diagrammatic drawing which demonstrates the range of different types 21 how they could be used for offensive purposes and for patrol- Drawing by Roland Davies In the South-West Pacific the Japanese enjoy the use of a number of bases from which their aircraft can operate against Australia. But the Allies have a number of ...

... The INDIA-BURMA PASSES Possible Routes of Supply for Our Fighting Forces THE most urgent problem for the High Command in India is how to maintain supply contact with the forces in Burma, which may not be able to hold the Japanese in the south. hour possible passes through the continuous mountain chain which divides India from Burma were surveyed before the war with a view to the construction ...

... WASHINGTON'S FOUR LINES of WORLD STRATEGY How the United States Army is being Distributed To-day Over the Whole Globe TO the casual observer it might appear that the United States of America is at present tending to fall into the major strategic error of great oceanic Powers at war-- namely, dispersal of forces. in scattered campaigns conducted along exterior lines. Already units of the ...

... TUC ClirrCCCCIII DCTIDCMCUT CDAM DIIDMA The Route Across the Chindwin River and the Road Taken by the I Mt jULttjJrUL KtllKtmtlMI rliUrl DUKrlA British Forces Over the Burmese Hills towards Assam and India BATTLE IN THE SALWEEN GORGE. WHERE THE CHINESE IN RETREAT SUDDENLY TURNED ON THE lAPS as the result of a sui-Drise fiphter raid bv the Ameritan Volunteer Group, swarmed back across the great ...

... BOMBERS from AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS? Was the Bombing of Tokyo Carried Out by this Means A Consideration of Some of the Many Difficult Factors Involved YY/HEN the British cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall were attacked off Ceylon and sunk by the Japanese, it was noted that the enemy did not make use of torpedo- carrying aircraft, but used dive-bombers alone. The comment was then made that this was ...