... HEROIC WORK AS A U.S. TRANSPORT BURNED AT SEA The Scene as the Wakefield Caught Fire Off the U.S. East Coast IN pre-war days, the 24,000-ton liner Manhattan was the queen of the United States merchant fleet: to-day she is little more than a charred hull awaiting attention at an American East Coast port. She was built at Camden, in New Jersey, in 1932, at a cost of £2,500,000 sterling, and very ...

... A U.S. NAVY PATROL BLIMP COLLAPSES IN MID-AIR over Daly City in California A picture taken as the airship came down in a city street U.S. TROOPS PLUNGE THROUGH FIRE AND WATER during their toughening- up exercises in Louisiana This impressive picture comes from Harding Field at Baton Rouge, in Louisiana. It shows an American soldier on the point of leaping from a 20-ft. platform into a flaming ...

... iETTING READY FOR NEXT YEAR'S FARMING RECORD The Essex War Agricultural Committee is making strenuous efforts to get a return from every acre in the County. Derelict land, and land which has for years been covered with rough scrub is now being got ready for next year's great effort. In order to bring scrub-land under cultivation a new mechanised wonder is being used in appearance it is ...

... WATCHDOGS OF THE CONVOYS By Vernon Fane Corvettes are Tough Babies; J\[ew York a Hundred Years Ago; From the Roaring '20's to Dunkirk George Augustus Sola FOR the last seven months I have been hoping to see just such a book as Mr. Nicholas Monsarrat's H.M. CORVETTE (Cassell. 2s.). I specify the period because it was just about that long ago that I had some first-hand news about Corvettes ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 162 t New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Primate's Great Speech.-- The Primate made a great speech on September 26. I judge it to have the importance of an Atlantic Charter put out by Church and State-- a pacific charter, if you will, con structive, sane and temperate. Here is the even mean, in nothing petty, in nothing party, the right line to charting, stabilising and ...

... The LIBERTY SHIP which was BUILT in TEN DAYS Three Pictures of Mr. H. J. Kaiser's GreatShipbuilding Feat on the Pacific Coast Mr. h. j. kaiser has already performed wonders in the construction of seagoing merchantmen but his recent achievement has staggered the whole world especially, let us hope, the Germans Within ten days he built and launched the 10,500-ton cargo ship shown in these three ...

... PICTURES from EGYPT Where the 8th Army and the Axis Forces have Once Again been Engaged in Heavy Fighting BOMBING THE AXIS SUPPLY LINES IN EGYPT More than a score of bombs from Allied air craft are here seen bursting on their target during an attack by light bombers on a concentration of Rommel's motor transport. Vehicles which have escaped the full force of the bombs are seen as tiny specks ...

... A FLEET in SEARCH of its BASES What is to Happen to the Soviet Fleet in the Black Sea By FERDINAND TUOHY A YEAR ago the Russian Black Sea Fleet was no mean armada based on Odessa and Sebastopol, first-class naval harbours, repair and supply depots. It was a fleet of all types, from battleships to the Soviet equivalent of E-boats, and it included a sizeable air arm. Its exact composition had, ...

... WAR BY SEA AND AIR New Pictures from Britain, America and Germany THE BRITISH CORVETTE DIANTHUS RAMS AND SINKS A U-BOAT after a three-hours chase Some of the German prisoners disembarking at a British port. I„ a midnight battle in the Atlantic, H.M. corvette Dianthus (Lieut. -Commander C. E. Bridgeman, R.N.) rammed and sank a U-boat after a three-hours chase. After the submarine had been blown ...

... THE WAY OF THE LUFTWAFFE AT SEA Shooting at Sitting Birds whilst the Air-Sea Rescue launch is speeding out to save British airmen who have taken to their rubber dinghies WHEN AIRMEN TAKE TO THEIR DINGHY A two-man type, showing how it is operated in the sea The man on the left is wearing the bellows round his neck, to pump in more air if required. The man on the right is using the canvas ...

... Errors in Flight, when Heavy Weather Often Creates Special Difficulties Against which the Pilot has to be on Constant Guard Described by PETER LISCOMB THE Duke of Kent's tragic death when his Sunderland crashed into a Scottish hillside revives a question which must puzzle many laymen. Why do planes crash into hills Why, in thick weather, cannot they fly well above them Surely modern ...

... Overcoats are now being brought out by the men of the Eighth Army, owing to the sharpness of the autumn morning air. Here a small Special Party, scouting through the desert south of the main positions at El Alamein, wake at sunrise, whilst the sun is still throwing long shadows and the chill night air still lingers Drawing by Edward Osmond The news contained in a recent communique from the ...