... 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 ...

... MALTA George Cross Island of an Heroic People, which has Already Endured Well Over 2.000 Bombing Attacks IT is difficult for us who knew Malta in its light-hearted days to picture it in its new role of a beleaguered fortress, at present the most bombed in the world. Pre-war Malta, for all its consciousness of surrounding unease (in 1933 trenches dug along the front for gas-pipes were ...

... AIR MARSHAL MONSOON-A New Strategist in the Japanese War in the Bay of Bengal THERE are two main sets of monsoons, although the range is diversified by several subsidiary currents. Blowing roughly from May to October in a north-easterly direction are those north of the Equator; blowing approximately from October to March in a south-westerly direction are those south of the Line. How are the ...

... Described and illustrated by Wm. McDowell DEEP diving (so called to distinguish it from diving in aquatic sport) has been attempted for many centuries. Aristotle, in the fourth century B.C., refers to divers, employed in warfare, who used a tube held in the mouth with the upper end supported on a float; he also speaks of an apparatus which is obviously some form of diving-bell. Kylser, a ...

... A Note by Francis McMurtrie WHEN the last war closed, anti-aircraft gunnery was in its infancy, and the heaviest anti-aircraft piece in general use afloat was a 3-in. semi automatic. A 4-in. weapon was being introduced, the first of H.M. ships to carry it being the aircraft-carrier Argus, completed in September 1918. At first she was given only two of these, mounted singly on either side ...

... The DEFENCE of AUSTRALIA New Guinea Stands up to the Japs and Frustrates the Attacks on Port Moresby NEW GUINEA is a key point much desired by Japan. Once fully in her possession she would com mand the Torres Strait, and would be within easy flying distance pf the north of Australia. The fringe of outer islands, regarded by Australia as her bulwark against in vasion, have been falling to ...

... 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 ...

... ANGLO-AMERICAN NAVAL CO-OPERATION Admiral Stark and his Staff at the Admiralty Admiral btark, ot the U.b. Navy, is the Commander of his country's Naval Forces in Europe accompanied by Mr. J. G. Winant, U.S. Ambassador in London, and by members of the U.S. staff, he visited the Admiralty recently. It was an historic occasion, being the first gathering of its kind at the Admiralty since the days ...

... The MERCHANT SERVICE of the AIR The Network of Communications Still Operated by British Civil Aircraft in War-- as in Peacetime Described by CHARLES GRAVES IT is two years since Imperial Airways Limited and British Airways Limited joined forces. The men of the Merchant Navy have to keep open the mari time communications of the Empire at all costs. The captains and crews of the Merchant Air ...

... MACDONALD MUIR. LTD., MACDONALD MUIR. LTD., J'cwlou,* Queens 4l- (DYie Queetft Choti)lKuS6cViA Raised independently and regimented under Col. the Hon. John Berkeley in I68S as the Princess Anne of Denmark's Regiment of Dragoons. In 1788 it was j ordered to adopt the title Queen's Own Dragoons. Made Light Dragoons in 1818 and became Hussars in 1861. M M mm I c£^-. Like this famous regiment ...

... THE HOME GUARD'S SECOND BIRTHDAY The Premier's Visit to the R.A.F. THE HOME GUARD IS NOW TWO YEARS OLD A conference at Headquarters held by Lord Bridgeman, Director-General, with his Staff, and attended by Staff Officers from various Home Guard Commands throughout the country In this picture are seen the following officers and officials from left to right facing the camera Colonel G. F, ...