... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 131 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. A Late Note on the New Men.-- I have always believed that one of the first and best assets of true religion was jolliness-- perhaps I am coining a word. I have. found that the best churchmen I have met were also the jolliest. This is especially true of bishops. I never had so many occasions for loud and even impious laughter as when in the ...

... AMERICA'S AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS And her Sea-borne Fighter Aircraft By FRANCIS McMURTRIE IN aviation matters the United States Navy has been fortunate in always having had complete control of the whole of its air material and personnel. There is no independent Air Force in the U.S.A., the Navy and Army each operating its own aircraft as an integral part of the organisation. Another advantage ...

... MEN OF THE RED ARMY The fine types of Russian who are now taking their place in the fighting line. This picture was taken as truckloads of Soviet troops passed through Moscow on their way up to the Central Front SOME OF THE MEN WHO DROVE THE GERMANS BACK FROM MOSCOW These soldiers are tank crews attached to the First Moscow Guards Motorised Infantry Division. They were amongst those who ...

... f.t Staraya Russa, on the East Front, our Allies have sur rounded the whole of the German 16th Army and are slowly closing in on it in the First stages of the attack the Russians routed the 290th Infantry Division of the 2nd Army Corps, the 30th Infantry Division of the 10th Army Corps and an ^.S. Division, 12,000 Germans being killed. The fact that tie 16th Army has been surrounded is ...

... THE JAPANESE ADVANCES IN BURMA The Abandonment of Rangoon and the Cutting of the Burma Road The position of the city of Rangoon is a curious one, inasmuch as it has no connections overland with India (as one might expect from looking at the map). In between Rangoon and Chittagong is a trackless, mountainous area: consequently, com munication with Calcutta has, of necessity, always been by sea. ...

... Saving the Lives of the Merchant Navy J-T very week now, new im provements and life-saving devices to help the men of the Merchant Navy are being taken up by the Ministry of War Transport. Fireproof hoods for the crews of tankers anti- explosive suits fitted with elec tric lights, so that the wearer can be spotted at night; and motor lifeboats fitted with auto matic radio, vitamin rations and ...

... WUBBBSBUBBBmmKBBtmmBKM i ^1 C i A T T ll AT THESE air pressures llrLHl c iu __ b 0 lb- dpB RECOMMENDED T PRESSURES V RUBBER WASTED X NO X RUBBER It cannot be too strongly stressed that a tyre consists of a waited/ cover, a tube, and the air inside the tube. It is the air ^WSBKK&l 1 that carries the load and if the air pressure is incorrect, the cover and tube cannot work effici- --Hi I :B ...

... The use of these secret weapons was revealed by the Russians recently, in connection with the fighting around Starava Russa, where a large Ger man Army is now trapped and being systematically attacked. The aero-sleighs are thrown into action rathei like tanks but, of course, at much greater speed they charge in perfect order and then disgorge machine gunners right at the point I to be attacked ...

... The Lessons We Must Learn from the Mala/an and Libyan Campaigns By E. J. VILLIERS THE Japanese have rubbed in two lessons in Malaya and Java: first that the command of the sea is worth any cost, and secondly that troops must be agile and fast-moving, not overburdened with kit, and their weapons must be of the same mobile nature. Remedy ing. our naval weakness in the Pacific will be a long-term ...

... THE EXPLOITS OF A BRITISH WRECKING PATROL A lorry party raids enemy aerodromes along the Gulf of Sirte and destroys ninety-one Axis planes in two weeks APPROACHING RY IORRY THF WRFCKERS THEN ATTACK ON FOOT Bombs are placed in the aircraft and vital parts are ripped and smashed. -Drawings by Roland Davies In the desert around the Gulf of Sirte a special wrecking patrol J has been at work ...

... THE M.L.'S OF E-BOAT ALLEY The E-boat is short for Enemy Boat its happy hunting-ground is E-Boat Alley, which lies off the East Coast of Britain its chief foe is the M.L. of the type illustrated on these pages. This speedy, compact craft is a destroyer in miniature, some of which have already carried out notable work against their German counter parts. Usually officered by sub-lieutenants ...

... , , Until then When the lamps of freedom are lit again, not least bright will be the glittering news that art and its artistes once more know no frontiers. But while the world continues to revolve around an uncertain axis, we must forego the opera, and a new Ford car to take us there until Victory is the overture to Peace. Until then, Ford marches on with the unique Ford Spare Parts and ...