... WATCHING HIS COMRADES CARRY ON IN THE AIR ABOVE AFRICA After bombing, with devastating effect, an Italian supply column (seen blazing in the background), this R.A.F. sergeant-pilot was shot down by anti-aircraft fire over North Africa and captured by the Italians. In this eloquent picture, the pilot is seen between two of his captors watching his colleagues carrying on with their bombing ...

... During a flight over the Mediterranean on December 22 a Sunderland flying-boat of the R.A.F. met with two Messerschmitts. The encounter was brief: one was shot down, and the other was damaged and made off. During the battle, however, the starboard engines of the flying-boat were hit and ceased to function. Land was in sight, but the bunderland lost height rapidly, and a forced landing in the ...

... ONE OF THE STREETS IN DARWIN, the new Naval and Air Base on the North Australian coast, where the Japanese have carried out their first air raids ON THE SUPPLY ROUTE THROUGH THE HEART OF THE AUSTRALIAN NEVER-NEVER LAND A lorry convoy passing the Devil's Marbles on the newly constructed road which connects the railheads at Alice Springs and Birdum to lonely Darwin on the North Coast ON THE ...

... FIGHTING the BOMBER In Rough, Wintry Weather at Sea PROTECTED BY AN ANGLED STEEL SHIELD A Lewis gunner replying to an attack by a German bomber ON BOARD A DESTROYER ACTING AS A CONVOY ESCORT A multiple machine-gun battery repelling an attack from the air. Note the complete protection for the gunner behind his steel shields and the open sights for close-up fire Two drawings by Harry Riley R.I. ...

... DISTANCES IN TRIPOLITANIA AND CYRENAICA Supply problems and the speed of communication have hitherto proved the deciding factors in the warfare in the Western Desert. Here the principal roads and distances between the chief points are indicated THE IMPORTANCE OF ROAD COMMUNICATIONS When General Rommel retreated down the Barce-Benghazi road to El Agheila, the enemy blew up the road which leads ...

... TWO FLAGS in the ATLANTIC The United Patrol by Units of the British and U.S. Navies Out on the Wintry Atlantic, an American Cruiser Passes a British Destroyer at the Edge of Their Respective Beats On left (from left to right) l. Signalmen on a British destroyer flashing a message to an American patrol vessel. 2. Signals are exchanged between the American and British destroyers. 3. Led by the ...

... Established 1833 NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK LIMITED Head Office: 15, Bishopsgate, London, E C. 2. Affiliations COUTTS CO. GRINDLAY CO. LTD. TEA-UP! They all welcome the Red Shield Mobiles One of the 137 ways in whieli The Salvation Army daily serves the eoniniunity Your gift will help to maintain these services, lhank you I General Carpenter 101 Queen Victoria St., London, E.C.4 IN QUEST OF GOOD ...

... i _ THE FIRST SUBMARINE V.C. OF THE WAR: LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER M. D. WANKLYN, V.C., D.S.O., ol H.M. Submarine Upholder (with beard) receiving the congratulations of his First Lieutenant Lieut. I. R. Drummond, R.N. f\n the evening of May 24, 1941, while on patrol off the coast of Sicily, Lieut.-Commander Wanklyn, of H.M. Submarine Upholder, sighted a south-bound enemy troop convoy, strongly ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 129 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Patience in Adversity. -- The cards are against us in this par ticular hand which has been playing for many long, dark weeks. But this hand doesn't decide the rubber, and, more than that, we should be slow to cry out for a new deal. We were doing that, if you remember, in January. A period ot adversity m war is the surest breeding-ground ...

... The Melancholy Situation of a Darlan-Dominated French Colonial Empire, which has Already been Parcelled Out Amongst the Three Axis Partners from the African Coast to the Pacifc Islands By FERDINAND TUOHY GENERAL ARANDA'S claim to French Morocco is a pointer to what Vichy may expect on a far wider scale should the Axis, which it is helping, come out on top. It throws into relief a matter which ...

... ONE OF THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF RANGOON The University Buildings which border the Victoria Lake Five miles from the centre of the city lies the Victoria Lake on the margin of this are the buildings of Rangoon University unique in the East which form an estate of their own the buildings, in fact, almost comprise a self- contained little town, and are the essence of modernity in a city of ...

... WEATHER in the SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC: Some oF the Extraordinary Vagaries with which Seamen have to Contend Described by David Mclnnes WHIRLWINDS, transparent rain, typhoons, a volcano in action below the surface of the ocean, electrical storms of terrific brilliance and intensity-- these are some of the strange manifestations of nature that have most impressed me during many years afloat on the ...