... Dy crossing more than a thousand miles of enemy and enemy-occupied territory in daylight, the new four- engined Lancasters of Bomber Command have just carried out one of the most daring flights of the war. Their objective was the fac tory of the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg A.G., where heavy tanks and Diesel engines for warships are made. Setting out in the after noon, the twelve ...

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... PIGEONS of the R.A.F. Carried by the Long-range Hying Boats for Use in an Emergency TO-DAY, in the R.A.F., 500,000 homing pigeons are being used for operational work. Of this number, 2,000 birds are on duty daily with Coastal Command, ready to carry messages from long-range reconnaissance aircraft when circumstances demand that the radio shall remain silent. At first a large number of trained ...

... The U.S. aircraft-tender Langley was recently sunk in the Pacific by near misses from Japanese bombs. Water, being incompressible, conveys explosion waves for considerable distances anc a near miss by, say, 30 yards, is often sufficient to open up seams in a ship's plates whicl will flood her below the water-level and eventually sink her without a direct hit being scored 3 THE DESTRUCTIVENESS ...

... to Frequently an officer will order his uniform from us in his home town during short leave and arrange for fitting to take place at another of our shops situated near to his unit. Sometimes he is moved suddenly to some new station before the uniform is ready. No matter how many times he changes his location there is, in most cases, an Austin Reed shop within reach where fitting arrangements ...

... OMR Serial Some Nostalgic Memories Pleasant and Unpleasant By Ferdinand Tuohy BEFORE setting out from New York on her travels which produced European Spring (1940 vint age), Claire Boothe had been much impressed by an aphorism: These are the good old days. The reflection haunted her as she lived the ultimate weeks of Sitzkrieg, that last fatal calm, and it composed the last line in her ...

... The Resident's Wife Years may Cloutl a Mystery* but Sometimes they mahe Confession Easy Bv John Brophy THE worst heat of the day was past and now that the sun had set, dipping swiftly behind the gebel ridges and plunging the wide expanse of the Red Sea into sudden dark ness, life stirred again in the little town, which straggled round the harbour and along the embankments of the river. The ...

... 4^ We**ing It S** 6 WAYS TO A GOOD SHAPE Hands that have grown nimbler on precision work should make easy going of this dressy version of the shorter hair style. The casual fringe and fluffed-up back and sides are achieved by setting the front hair in rows of snail-curls, and the graded lengths of the back into rows and rows of curls until your hairpins run out. Brush the sides back tight and ...

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