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... The Occupation of Madagascar By British Forces on Thursday, May 7 F)IEGO SUAREZ was defended by some 7,000 troops, according to the Vichy Government and from this same source it was stated tha' twenty-three British ships put into Courier Bay, on the west side of the northern tip of Mada gascar, for the subjuga tion of the naval base These ships were five large vessels, twelve of medium tonnage ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 140 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Battering Match Again.-- With the resumption by the Nazis of reprisal raids, the whole question of the night bombing of cities comes up again. It is unlikely that this issue of the Newsletter will catch the eye of an historian thirty years hence. But, if it should, it will relieve my conscience (wherever it may then be flitting in ...
... OEVERF damage to the biggest k J assembly shop of the Heinkel aircraft works is revealed by the latest picture taken of Rostock after its four niuhts of sustained attack bv the R.A.F. The Heinkel is the backbone of the Luftwaffe's bombing squadrons. Heinkel bombers carried out many of the attacks on London, and were en gaged in the recent raids on Bath and Norwich and York. They sally far ...
... FIGHTER OFFENSIVE The King pays a Visit to the Men who are Carrying Out the Daylight Sweeps over Northern France jS^ lew days ago the King paid a visit of inspection to R.A.F. stations from which Spitfire squadrons operate for daylight sweeps over France. Sir Sholto Douglas, Fighter Command C.-in-C., accompanied him. At one station the pilots found his Majesty waiting to greet them as they ...
... THE DEFENCE OF AUSTRALIA The Actual Character of the Vital Northern Coastline Described by DONALD COWIE EXACTLY what kind of country would meet the first Japanese landing parties if an attempt were made to invade Australia from the north? The answer depends on the part of North Australia chosen, for the 3,000 mile coastline that stretches from extreme north- west to extreme north-east flaunts ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 139 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Laval.-- The next few weeks should show us how much reliance was to be placed in the mass of evidence, released from time to time, that the vast bulk of Frenchmen in France were praying for an Allied victory, detested the Germans more than their fathers did and always have done, and, above all traitors and quislings, loathed Laval and ...
... f* n W AID A R.I n DV I A Kl I\ ^he R.A.F. Batter the Ports of Lubeck and Rostock on the Baltic, and the Skoda Works; J\ I I f\ |v ul /\llY /\rM L> D T LAIN LI and the Army Carry Out a Commando Raid on the Occupied Coast near Boulogne MtN Oh lHfc I WO FORMATIONS OF TWELVE LANCASTER BOMBERS WHO TOOK PART IN THE GREAT RAID ON AUGSBURG â– nuadrori Leader J. D. Nettieton, who led one of the ...
... OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO INDIA? A Survey of the Burmese Scene WILL THE JAPS REACH OUT TO ASSAM AND INDIA? A Note on the Geographical Features of the Region ASSAM, and the region westward, through which the Brahmaputra flows into the Gulf of Bengal, is not easy country. Apart from the main plain, mountain ranges and deep-rivered valleys run roughly north-south and form a succession of barriers ...
... THE WORK OF THE INTELLIGENCE CORPS The Necessary Qualifications which Candidates Must Possess, the Training They Undergo Whilst Being Prepared for their New Tasks, and the Duties they have to Perform in the Office and in the Field Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE organisation of our military Intelligence is very much maligned. One is always hearing of linguists all over the country whose ...
... WHEN SUBMARINE MEETS SUBMARINE: An Exceptional Type of Naval Combat Where High-Speed Action is Essential Described by ARTHUR BARRETT SUBMARINE versus submarine actions are by no means as uncommon as might be supposed. The writer personally took part in an indecisive one in the last war, and knew of at least eighteen other cases in which our boats actually got their man. So far in this war, ...
... H >W the CHINESE S LDIER GOEStoWAR A Note by DONALD COWIE THE uniform of the Chinese soldier is made of a thin cotton material, the colour khaki (save in the case of son specialist units), and the suit consists of a jacket, roughly on the of that formerly worn by the British soldier, together with a pair of shouts, and sometimes a sweat-rag round the waist The cap is distinctive in des tn, ...
... THE BRITAIN WE FIGHT FOR AN ENGLISH FARMSTEAD IN THE CHILTERNS NEAR WEST WYCOMBE, a quiet country scene which typifies for most of us the land we hold so dear When a member of the English-speaking peoples thinks of the Homeland, it is not castles or mansions which his mind conjures up, but the memory of quiet scenes such as those above and on the right. In farmsteads and villages like these ...