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... Dy crossing more than a thousand miles of enemy and enemy-occupied territory in daylight, the new four- engined Lancasters of Bomber Command have just carried out one of the most daring flights of the war. Their objective was the fac tory of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg A.G., where heavy tanks and Diesel engines for warships are made. Setting out in the after noon, the twelve ...

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... PIGEONS of the R.A.F. Carried by the Long-range Hying Boats for Use in an Emergency TO-DAY, in the R.A.F., 500,000 homing pigeons are being used for operational work. Of this number, 2,000 birds are on duty daily with Coastal Command, ready to carry messages from long-range reconnaissance aircraft when circumstances demand that the radio shall remain silent. At first a large number of trained ...

... The U.S. aircraft-tender Langley was recently sunk in the Pacific by near misses from Japanese bombs. Water, being incompressible, conveys explosion waves for considerable distances anc a near miss by, say, 30 yards, is often sufficient to open up seams in a ship's plates whicl will flood her below the water-level and eventually sink her without a direct hit being scored 3 THE DESTRUCTIVENESS ...

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... By the Light of the Burning Victim, a Second Vessel Sinks the Attacker with Gunfire! 'This is the story of the biter who was bit, or the attacker who was attacked A Nazi submarine had attacked a British merchantman and set it on fire. Whilst the first vessel was I blazing furiously and lighting up the whole scene, another ship spotted the U-boat. Immediately it went into action against the ...

... That the Japanese have been able, at this stage of the war, to raid Darwin, on the Australian coast, is not surprising-- considering that they are believed to have established an air base at Amboina. But what is surprising is that the bombers were escorted by fighters! These latter machines could hardly have operated from land unless they had been fitted with extra petrol tanks specially for ...

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