... 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 ...

... THE CAPTAIN OF BRITAIN'S LATEST CAPITAL SHIP: CAPTAIN C. H. J. HARCOURT, O.B.E., R.N., ON THE BRIDGE OF THE BATTLESHIP DUKE OF YORK, NEWEST VESSEL OF THE ROYAL NAVY TO JOIN THE FLEET The importance of the Capital Ship in maintaining supremacy of the seas is, by this time, well known to all if only through the unhappy sequence of events in the Far East brought about by the loss of the Prince ...

... THE CAMPAIGN OF THE RED ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT THE RECAPTURE OF MOJAISK By the Russians AFTER an anxious period of three months, when the Germans stood in front of Moscow at Mojaisk on the big motor highway from Smolensk, the town was once again brought into Russian hands towards the end of January. Its occupation was then secure enough to admit of visits by War Corre spondents to the ...

... A NOTE ON THE LOSS OF THE BARHAM. By FRANCIS McMURTRIE FROM Press accounts of the torpedoing of H.M.S. Barham off the Libyan coast on November 25, it appears that she was one of a squadron of three battleships steaming in the formation known as line ahead, i.e., in a single column, one ship following another. Normally, ships proceeding in this formation preserve a distance of from 2½ to 3 ...

... THE DESTROYERS STEAM OUT To Engage the Three German Warships in the Channel H.M.S. WORCESTER AND OTHER DESTROYERS STEAMING INTO ACTION OFF THE DUTCH COAST IN THE GREAT CHANNEL BATTLE. During the action against the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen, H.M.S. Worcester went in to within one and a quarter miles of the enemy before firing her torpedoes she was hit and set on fire, but ...

... In the opening part of the month Japan developed attacks on two points which must have engaged the immediate attention of the Australian military authorities. These points were both in Dutch East Indian possessions, the island of Timor and the island of Amboina. It was in the western (Dutch) half of Timor that the attack developed from the air. The attack was directed against the Dutch ...

... THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME IN THE AIR? Four New and Completely Unorthodox Types of Aircraft with which Designers are Now Experimenting in the United States TO increase speed and fire-power-- the two chief considerations in the design of warplanes-- designers in all the combatant countries are thinking along lines very different from those hitherto. To-morrow we must expect to see the most ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 127 9 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Vote and Note of Confidence.-- The great debate which ended in a vote of confidence in Mr. Churchill-- no, in Mr. Churchill's Government-- is ancient history now. The critics of the Government were like March. They came in like a lion, and went out into the lobby like a lamb. I hose who most truculently declared their intention to ...

... INDIAN TROOPS OF THE BRITISH IMPERIAL FORCES, setting off in lorries to meet the Japanese. This picture was taken in the jungle when our forces were holding up the enemy's advance A LINE OF ARMOURED CARS READY TO MOVE OFF Ultimately, these vehicles were sent into the jungle north of Singapore Island to contest the lananese advance down the Peninsula THE HEAVY FLOODS ON THE PENINSULA A convoy ...