... POWER-OPERATED GUN-TURRETS FOR THE NAVY Some ships have recently been fitted with Boulton and Paul gun-turrets similar to those installed in our bombing aircraft: already they have proved successful in bringing down attacking enemy planes at sea. The ship's turrets have been specially modified for the new uses to which they are being put. One of them is here receiving its finishing touches ...

... The Jap Onslaught at Hawaii BattleshFps and Destroy ers Sunk by the Attacking Aircraft THE BATTLESHIP ARIZONA, OF 32,600 TONS, crumpled and toppling, pours clouds of smoke into the air as she sinks under the Jap bombs it was stated that a bomb passed down the smoke-stack of this capital ship, exploding the boiler and forward magazine. After she had settled on the bottom, only the ship's guns ...

... The TANK TRAVELS by ROAD Despite the Popular Idea, the Heavy Vehicles Are Still Delicate Mechanisms and They Must Stick to Firm Ground THE essence of tank attack, as with cavalry, is deep infiltration into the enemy line, forming a series of wedges. If strength can be concen trated at the tips of these wedges, one's opponent finds, large bodies of his men trapped between the prongs of the ...

... I THE EPIC STORY OF CORREGIDOR Guardian of Manila Bay The U.S. Bastion in the Philippines, Which Has Held Out Under General MacArthur Against All Odds Since Last December IT will be recalled that after the Japanese had entered Manila City on January 2, General MacArthur suc ceeded in concentrating his forces on a line protecting the northern approaches to the Batan Peninsula, which, with ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- IV By J. G. A FEATURE FROM 'THE STRAND.' -- My mother's instincts and impulses often came to a halt before my father's law-trained logic and his oak-door negative to any novel plan or theory. I realised, too, even as a child, that her apprehension of dangers and risks to our health was setting my own mind -- for I, too, was ...

... U.S. MARINES FIGHTING A FIRE IN ONE OF THE HANGARS AT GUADALCANAR AIRFIELD, apparently caused during a Japanese air attack. Note the fuel barrels in the foreground and the aeroplane behind, which have been rolled to safety. Though the Japs have raided this base frequently only slight damage has been caused by them AN AMERICAN NAVAL PILOT, whose aircraft was brought down in the Solomon Islands ...

... FIVE TIMES Round The EQUATOR A Wonderful Steaming Record by H.M.S. Vanoc 'T'he British destroyer Vanoc which recently celebrated her Silver Jubilee, has built up an exceptionally high steaming record for her type of war vessel. A few days before her twenty-fifth birthday, she steamed 17,400 miles in three months, and was at sea for seventy-one days out of ninety. The engines 'responsible for ...

... AT AN A.T.A. ESTABLISHMENT IN THE HOME COUNTIES, where a number of American ferry pilots are employed by the R.A.F. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to workers in the hangars through the microphone. On the right is Mrs. Churchill, who accompanied her to the aerodrome AT THE W.V.S. HEADQUARTERS IN EATON SQUARE Inspecting toys for children. From left to right are Lady Reading (Chief of the W.V.S. Mrs. ...

... 1 Hen completed, the new Yunnan-Burma Railway will connect with the ingoon-Lashio Railway in Burma and then continue on to Kunming it will pplement and relieve the congested supply route to China along the Burma ad and speed up Lease-Lend material from America to China. It will also valuable for Chinese military movements to the Burma front. Most im- rtant is the fact that the new line will ...

... THE JAPANESE IN CALIFORNIA are sent to neutral areas At Manyanar, in the State of California, an evacuation centre has been established for more than 60,000 Japanese evacuated from the defence areas around Los Angeles. Here the enemy aliens will soon be living and working where they can do no harm. Note the food supplies in the foreground ready for the kitchen staff to take over for the ...

... THE Japanese advance northward from Rangoon, which has been taking place in the form of two columns, one on the left and the other on the right bank of the river, has centred attention on this mighty, broad-bosomed stream, which flows; from the easternmost Himalayas out to sea through, numerous mouths. the Padaung ot to-day clusters Between tne ni' s and the river edge. On the opposite bank, ...

... FOUR P.CTURES FROM THE EGYPTIAN DESERT THE RESULT OF A SUCCESSFUL ATTACK LAUNCHED BY THE NEW ZEALANDERS IN THE EL ALAMEIN AREA A destroyed German 88-mm. anti-tank gun found in an enemy laager. These guns are of a type too heavy to move, and were therefore blown up by our men New Zealand troops in the Alamein area recently made a most successful attack on the enemy, surprising and wiping out a ...