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... THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, DON MANUEL QUEZON, WITH GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR, COMMANDER-IN- CHIEF OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE EAST-- A PICTURE TAKEN IN MANILA Cor the moment, the centre of conflict in the Far East is the Island of Luzon, on which Manila is situated. Like Singapore farther to the south, the Philippines (of which Manila is the capital) are greatly ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 122 i, New Oxford Sxref.t, W.C.i. To 1942.-- It is not to be denied that the last weeks of 1941 were dark; as dark, in all circumstances, as any we can remember. We are no strangers to dark Decembers, nor to years ending in gloom and obscurity. I am old enough to remember pretty vividly the black December of 1899, and in recent decades I have not seldom made reference to ...
... (^)n Thursday, November 27, the last Italian stronghold in East Africa surrendered after having held out for over six months. At the fall of Gondar, 23,500 men (of whom 1 1 ,500 were Italians), under the command of General Nasi, and fifty guns, were captured after a final assault, carried out mostly by East Africans, under Major-General Cyril Fowkes. Gondar lies 7,500 ft. up roads leading to ...
... A GIGANTIC BLACK-OUT PROBLEM New York, the City of Light, which Must Now Become a City of Darkness when the Alert Sounds The Pictures reproduced here give some idea of the immensity of the task which the Black-out of New York City will involve MU n U &T*Mm EVENING FALLS OVER GOTHAM The jewelled splendour of New York City after dark, with every floor of every building brilliantly lit up, and ...
... The tunnellers of the Royal Engineers went to Gibraltar after Dunkirk in August 1940: they were followed in March 1941 by the Royal Canadian (Tunnellers) Engineers. The work now â– being done follows on that of the original tunneller in Gibraltar, Sergeant Ince, of the Corps of Sappers, 1788, who began the famous Gibraltar Tunnels during the great siege which the Rock was then undergoing. ...
... It was at the beginning of the second week in December that the great change on the Eastern Front began to manifest itself. Successful Russian attacks and advances coincided with the German decision to retreat under the compulsion of the Russian winter and of the accumulated fatigue both of men and material. The Russian commanders began to attack vigorously their armies turned and, being ...
... THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES VOTES UNANIMOUSLY FOR WAR The scene at the Session in which it was unanimously declared that a state of war existed between the United States and Germany and Italy. The vote was 393 to 0 on the German resolution (with one woman Representative from Montana voting Present The President had sent a brief message, which was read by the Clerk. Speaker Sam Rayburn ...
... Who are the Men Who are Going to Lead the Allied Nations During the Coming Months of Liaison and Co-ordination An Appraisal of the Types of Leaders We Now Need By FERDINAND TUOHY IN terms of the human factor, each year of war provides its new arrivals, some thrust upon it, others ardently desired. At this juncture of the last war, after twenty-eight months, we were lucky to get our principal ...
... A Series of Special Sphere Drawings \Y/e have already become familiar with a number a great number of American- built aircraft many types have been in service with the R.A.F. for a long time. But the United States Air Force still possess certain aircraft new to English eyes some of these are indicated in the drawings by Mr. Roland Davies reproduced on this page. The Sky-rocket, for instance, ...
... THE PURSUIT OF GENERAL ROMMEL Latest Official Photographs from the Western Desert Pictures of the British Commanders at the Various Scenes of Operations THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AT ADVANCED HEADQUARTERS General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Air Vice-Marshal Coningham, Lieut. General N. M\ Ritchie (the new Commander of the Eighth Army), and senior Army and Air Force officers THE AIR OFFICER COMMANDING ...
... i. TOBRUK Polish Military Police guard German prisoners of war in the P.O.W. cage at Tobruk. These men were all captured during the fighting in the desert and brought in to the Fortress m TOBRUK Wounded being taken aboard the Italian hospital ship Ramb IV, captured from the enemy, which is doing valuable work in evacuating the men from Tobruk CAIRO German soldiers of the North Afrika Corps ...
... TANK DESIGN AND WHAT IT MEANS The Lessons of the Fighting in Libya By J. EDMUNDSON IT is a far cry from the great monsters of ante diluvian appearance which lumbered across the Somme in 1916 or which struck terror in the hearts of the Germans at the battle of Cambrai in 191 7 to the rapid war-machines which are racing about the Western Desert to-day. far-seeing as were tne sponsors 01 tnat ...