... THE SNOW-COVERED STEPPES OF RUSSIA, where tens of thousands of Germans are now freezing in the icy blasts from the Urals A column of the enemy, with their mechanised transport, comes to a halt in the bleak, wintry countryside GERMAN WAR PRISONERS IN RUSSIA PROTEST AT THE GERMAN TREATMENT OF SOVIET PRISONERS GERMANS SIGNING A MESSAGE OF PROTEST to the International Red Cross Committee at Geneva ...

... THE ISOLATIONISTS CHANGE THEIR CLOAK But Not Their Spots! From Isolationists Urging that America Do Nothing in the War, They Have Now Become Indignationists Professing to be Enraged that So Little Has Been Done to Encourage War-Mindedness By FERDINAND TUOHY DIRECTLY after Pearl Harbour the news went forth that there was no such thing any more as an American Isolationist. The Lindberghs, ...

... NAVAL WARFARE in the PACIFIC As It Affects the American Fleet By FRANCIS McMURTRIE Ever since the catastrophe brought about by Japanese treachery at Pearl Harbour on December 7, the Naval Problem of the Pacific has occupied the attention of every student of the war in the Far East. What has happened since that tragic morning What to-day is the strength of the United States Fleet What has it ...

... A FORTRESS in the SEA One of Britain's Coastal Defences in the North A GENERAL VIEW OF THE HEAVILY ARMOURED SEA FORT, showing mem bers of the garrison lined up on the deck below the searchlight windows and (top) gun turrets commanding every approach ON ONE OF THE FORTRESS'S PROJECTING BALCONIES Men of the garrison engaged in cleaning and maintenance work on one of the searchlights. In the ...

... SAVING OUR CRIPPLED SHIPS The Work of British Divers in Salvaging Valuable Vessels and Cargoes Lost at Sea through Enemy Action Described by CHARLES GRAVES IN the old days of manual tools, divers had to use the hammer and chisel, the saw or the brace and bit. To-day, new tools are employed. There are pneu matic chisels for cutting rivets; there are rivet busters and drilling machines. These ...

... Give up your Binoculars every pair is needed for National Servica KERSHAW'S BINOCULARS British and best, the world's standard of quality, will be available later. SO HO LTD., SALES DEPT., COLHAM MILL ROAD, WEST DRAYTON, MIDDLESEX (Branch of A. Kershaw fc Sons Ltd.) SPEED and the A m FOR CE How soon can you fix ine up with a greatcoat enquired an R.A.F. fighter pilot the other day. Now, we ...

... AFTER EIGHT MONTHS OF WAR IN RUSSIA A CAVALRYMAN OF THE RED ARMY ON THE TRAIL OF THE RETREATING GERMAN ARMY. The tank in the ditch was abandoned by the enemy in their withdrawal f\n Monday last February 23 the twenty-fourth Birthday of the Red Army was celebrated throughout Russia. The Soviet has now been at war with Germany for a period of just over eight months after the first reverses, due ...

... THE SPECIAL INVASION CRAFT OF THE GERMANS These are equipped with large outboard-motors and long propeller-shafts, which also act as rudders ACCESSIBILITY Four men can lift out motor and propeller-shaft and carry them from point to point as desired HOW THE GERMAN INVASION BOATS ARE OPERATED The steersman stands up at the stern and raises or depresses the propeller-shaft as necessary AN ...

... Fighter and Bomber Pilots and Naval Ratings After the Attacks in the Channel (See next page for full story) THE PILOTS OF A NEW ZEALAND FIGHTER SQUADRON WHO SHOT DOWN FOUR ENEMY AIRCRAFT IN THE FIGHTING OVER THE CHANNEL This squadron sustained no losses themselves but of the total air forces engaged in the pursuit of the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau we lost forty-two planes and the Germans ...

... The ESCAPE of the GERMAN BATTLESHIPS The Full Story of the Action in the Channel AT about eleven o'clock on the morning of Thursday, February 12, R.A.F. aircraft brought the first news that an enemy squadron consisting of the battle ships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the cruiser Prinz Eugen, accompanied by destroyers, torpedo-boats, E-boats and minesweepers, was approaching the Dover Straits ...

... The Invasion of Singapore Island And the Stages by which It was Carried Out until the Island's Surrender Special Sphere Diagrams and Drawings THE INVASION OF SINGA- PORE ISLAND BEGINS The main attack develops on the north-west of the Island across the Johore Strait (see notes on right) On left With the main Japanese ad vance down the Malay Peninsula threatening both the north-west and the ...

... THE MILITARY LIFE OF THE ISLAND OF MALTA goes on without pause Undergraduates pass out at the Royal University at the end of their vacation training ONE OF THE DEFENCES OF MALTA This boom defence protects the harbour. It can, of course, be opened to permit the passage of ships when necessary. But, ordinarily, it is effective in preventing the entrance of submarines to points where they could ...