... ATTACK IS NOW THE ORDER OF THE DAY! TROOPS IN THE SCOTTISH COMMAND DEMONSTRATE THE NEW IDEAS now being put into practice throughout the British Army. This picture, showing Landing Exercises, was taken during the King's recent visit Decent events have demonstrated how the new ideas in offensive tactics have been applied by the British Army. The raids at Bruneval, St. Nazaire and Boulogne small ...

... .AND SO VANISHED PETAINIA Twilit Land of Penance and Unreality, Created by a Man Who has Now Handed France Over to the Unspeakable Laval. Some Details from the Last Authentic Report on Petain in Action By FERDINAND TUOHY HISTORY books will dedicate a special chapter to the twenty-two months which terminated when Marshal Pétain announced Laval as Head of the Government. For, whatever else ...

... The Roman Cisterns of Libya Recently Revealed, and Now Supplying the 8th Army with Water WITH the approach of the hot season in the Libyan Desert, the problem of water supply will become this year, as last, a matter of the greatest urgency. The chief difficulty will be, as always, the local distribution of water; but the main supplies will probably be full to over flowing, owing to the recent ...

... REAR-ADMIRAL A. L. ST. G. LYSTER, C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., Fifth Sea Lord, is also the Chief of Naval Air Services he is here seen with Captain A. G. Talbot, D.S.O., captain of Illustrious, after arriving on the aircraft-carrier by air Before his appointment as Chief of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten had been appointed to H.M.S. Illustrious, and during her period in an American ...

... THE PORT OF ROSTOCK, ANCIENT AND PICTURESQUE HANSEATIC TOWN AND THE HOME OF THE GREAT HEINKEL AIRCRAFT WORKS, which has suffered a series of Hovact-atinu raids frnm a terrific concentration of the biepest and best bombers of the R.A.F. This drawine shows the town and its docks on the River Warnow and the view across Mecklenburg-Schwerin to Warnemunde on the Baltic- -Drawing by E. G. Lambert |T ...

... A New Supply Route from Russia into China by Way of The Eternal Road the Historic Silk Route ONE by one the reads to Chungking have been stopped, but the ancient highway by which China from the earliest days maintained contact with the west remains open. Along this route, across the barren lands of Central Asia, a continuous stream of goods and munitions has helped to sustain the armies of ...

... The Life-Saving Rafts of the British Merchant Service On right A Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command, R.A.F., whilst on an anti-submarine patrol, sighted a raft far out in the Atlantic. The Hudson at once signalled its position, and early the following morning a Catalina flving-boat, also belonging to Coastal Command, was sent out. After a few hours' flying the raft was again sighted, and a ...

... An Air Ministry official photograph, taken after the fires had died down, showing the terrific damage wrought by the bombers Lubeck is the great Hanseatic port in the Baltic which lies to the north of Hamburg. On the night of Saturday, March 28, it was heavily attacked by a strong force of R.A.F. bombers. This picture (an official Air Ministry photograph) shows part of the extensive damage ...

... Pictures Taken Before and After the Commando Attack on the Occupied Coast near Boulogne, when a Force Under the Command of Lord Lovat Penetrated the Enemy's Defences over a Frontage of Half a Mile THE LEADER OF THE COMMANDO FORCE, MAJOR LORD LOVAT (on right), gives his orders to the officers before setting out on the raid. During the operations Lord Lovat wore he bonnet of his own Lovat Scouts ...

... H.M.S. ILLUSTRIOUS On Active Service Once Again with the Royal Navy Life Aboard the Famous Aircraft-Carrier, Damaged During an Engagement in the Mediterranean, Repaired in an American Port, and then Refitted in Britain Illustrious is a vessel of 23,000 tons, laid down as one of four of a similar class in 1937. Work on her construction was begun in April of that year she was launched on April ...

... C .nce the treacherous attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbour, control of the South-West Pa ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- IX By J. G. THIS MUDDY VESTURE.-- In a sense, the break-away which I described in my last instal ment was a courageous decision-- a flight of the spirit --which, allowing for the conditions of those times, it surprises me to recall. Those times did not call to pioneers, and I was never by nature of the pioneer breed. Still, though it ...