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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...