... A VISIT TO OXFORD IN WARTIME The Life of the Undergraduates is Hard, and Each has to do His Stint of National Service. Food, Luxuries and High Living are Rarities, and Against all Scholastic and Social Endeavour Looms the Background of War and Grim Preparation for It By CHARLES GRAVES IT was with a kind of contemptuous envy that I went up to Oxford this week. But that mood changed very quickly ...

... THIS IS NASHCRETE, a concrete which can be sawn and nailed In a factory near London women are busily turning out this new wartime building product invented by Mr. T. F. Nash It looks and behaves like concrete, but it has the added advantage that it can be sawn, and nails can be driven into it with ease. This is because it contains a large proportion of sawdust a waste product. Miss Elsie Bell ...

... 'M9Glll^BSnPMDEIBnK>v v Y v--' THE CAPTURE OF TAMATAVE, principal port of Madagascar British troops disembarking on September 18. Warships directed a few shells at the defences before the town surrendered AS EACH TOWN WAS OCCUPIED, meetings of the residents were called and addressed by the Chef de Region, who read out the British Proclamation and appealed for complete co-operation APPROACHING ...

... THE GOOD WORK OF THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IN SUPPORT OF THE LAND OPERATIONS OF THE EIGHTH ARMY IN EGYPT. Hitting at enemy supp ships bound for North Africa off the Sardinian coast a British submarine torpedoes an Italian destroyer and an armed merchant cruiser whilst the were convoying supplies for Rommel's forces (see notes at right)- -Drawing by Montague Dawson CUTTING OFF ...

... THE TRENCH MORTAR, which has come into its own in the present war. This is the British model, a highly-finished weapon, which throws a type of rocket-bomb-- -Drawing by L. Ashwell Wood THE ROCKET -BOMB THROWN BY THE TRENCH MORTAR: The charge is lashed between the tail fins, it will be observed. It was in Russia and in Malaya that the trench mortar was singled out for attention by the war ...

... 'rHE wide phrase Battle of the Atlan- tic covers an area which embraces the whole of the North Atlantic, the Carib bean Sea, and adjacent waters. Within this area, a continual struggle for ascendancy is being carried on by the Allied naval and air forces on the one hand, and the enemy under-sea arid air forces on the other. In practice, the area roughly divides itself into an eastern half, ...

... The DIVE-BRAKES of the DORNIER in ACTION The Umbrella-like Tail of the 217 Type, which has Converted a Bomber into a Dive-Bomber THE NEW DORNIER DO. 217 IN FLIGHT The dive-brakes are carried in the part of the tail projecting behind the twin rudders. These brakes operate in the manner shown on the right A CLOSE-UP OF THE TAIL OF THE AIRCRAFT, showing how the parachute dive-brakes look when not ...

... The DEFENCE of STALINGRAD New Pictures of the Fighting Along the Volga River r l K J DOWNCAST GERMAN PRISONERS, amongst whom may be observed airmen of the Luftwaffe, marching away to the rear after capture during the fierce battles on the Eastern Front ONE OF THE PORTIONS OF THE OUTER RING OF STALINGRAD now in German hands. The buildings which still stand are mere shells, and the streets are ...

... THEINVISIBLE BRIDGES OF STALINGRAD The Clever Russian Device Whereby Supplies and Reinforcements were Brought Across the Volga The defence of Stalingrad has called forth one of the cleverest devices of the present war the invisible bridge, across which Marshal Timoshenko poured reinforcements and supplies into the city every night. This Russian invention, first used in the battles of the ...

... PHILLIPS POWIS AIRCRAFT LIMITED PHILLIPS POWIS AIRCRAFT LIMITED M CONSTRUCTED BY flulestirnes MILES 'MONARCH' BX the most ownable aeroplane X in the World The Aeroplane June 22^1958^^ Y^HTH British Service monoplane trainers in the full swing of large-scale production, our designers remembered their first customer, the private owner, and returned to their blue prints of a new and wondrous ...

... HE GESTAPO HEADQUARTERS IN OSLO, bombed by Britain's new Mosquito aircraft The new and secret light bombers of the R.A.F. made their attack in daylight flying in brilliant sunshine and at roof-top level. The raid was carried out at a moment when Quisling (the first and original) and his followers were celebrating the anniversary of their assumption of power in Norway. The resultant confusion ...

... By FERDINAND TUOHY THEY were two of several daring and courageous men recently arrived in Britain from the Hitler hell abroad, and I met them on successive days over those luncheon-tables which have become eloquent of this war: so light in fare, so earnest in other ingredients. Names and nationalities must be disregarded, because each spoke off the record, which I hope I interpret correctly ...