... THE AMERICAN-BUILT GENERAL GRANT TANK, WHOSE GREAT HITTING POWER IN THE LIBYAN DESERT PROVIDED ROMMEL WITH ONE OF HIS BIG SURPRISES. These new vehicles were first engaged in the Battle of Knightsbridge and have been in action ever since It has been publicly stated that in our desert operations of a year ago a large proportion of our tanks became unservice able on the road before ever they ...

... FIRST PICTURES FROM COLOGNE Taken by Reconnaissance Aircraft of the R.A.F. T'he attack on Cologne on the night of May 30-31 created history. For the first time in air warfare over 1,000 bombers were sent to the attack of a single objective Cologne. The force despatched included our biggest bombers, and every aircraft participating had been made in Britain. Cologne is (or perhaps one should ...

... THE COASTAL AREA OF THE AMERICAS, WHERE U.S. SHIPPING HAS BEEN THREATENED BY THE U-BOATS The danger-zone has been extended from the Atlantic seaboard of the United States to the Caribbean, and then southwards to the Brazilian coast many hundreds of miles away A NEW MOTHER-SHIP FOR U.S. SUBMARINES An artist's impression of a new-type submarine tender, one of several such vessels now being ...

... A SUB. -BUSTER OF THE U.S. COASTGUARD SERVICE CO-OPERATES WITH A BLIMP In the first four months of the war, it has been estimated that the United States lost 180 merchant vessels. To-day, patrol bombers, blimps and sub.-busters are co-operating to fight the menace of the U-boat. Hundreds of fast. 83-ft. vessels are now being built for the Coastguard Service one such is shown above. They can ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XII By J. G. THOMAS CREEVEY.-- Lytton Strachey, in his Books and Characters, published in 1922, put in a typically light and contemptuous footnote on Thomas Creevey. His information, of course, was all derived from Sir Herbert Maxwell's Creevey Papers,- which had been given to the world (and delighted it) in 1904. Thomas Creevey, a Whig ...

... , , -j Nice work! The 4 wood rolls gently over the velvet green the player following its i progress with sympathetic movements of his head and shoulders. Slowly it approaches the jack and, its bias accurately judged, draws and click! meets it. And remains the present undisputed winner. Its owner relaxes, amid a murmur of approval. Nice work Yes, nice work after the day's real work. ...

... DRAMA IN THE DESERT A GERMAN PRISONER IS CAPTURED ON THE DUN-COLOURED LIBYAN PLAIN, AND IS IMMEDIATELY SEARCHED. One Man goes over the Prisoner for Concealed Arms, whilst his Comrade Covers Him with a Bren Gun .1 phis official photograph from the scene of the heavy fighting in the Western Desert gives a vivid impression of some of the conditions under which our troops have been operating ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. 146 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Hitler's Dilemma.-- The events of a few days (or even hours) may radically alter the position of, and the degree of optimism felt by, one side or the other in this titanic struggle. In the second week of June the position was definitely more favourable for the Allies than they could have expected in May. Hitler was still holding his hand ...

... THE BOMBING OF COLOGNE What a Study of the R.A.F. Reconnaissance Pictures has Revealed of the Damage Further pictures on the following pages Since the publication of the first pictures of the havoc wrought by the R.A.F. in Cologne, a detailed interpretation has been possible of the reconnaissance pictures. Air Ministry experts have now declared that the damage was immeasurably greater than ...

... COLOGNE The City that has Gone for Ever A Description, from Personal Experience, of the Period when Cologne-- the Recent Centre of Our Heaviest' Attack Yet was Occupied by the Army of the Rhine After the Last War, Right Up to the Year 1926; and How the German Populace Responded to the British Domination Described by FERDINAND TUOHY HOW many of the R.A.F. who flew in their legion above Cologne ...

... JAP NAVAL DIVERSIONS IN THE PACIFIC WAR The Strange, Wearing-Down Tactics of the Enemy The two pictures reproduced here illustrate one curious aspect of the naval war amongst the Pacific Islands. It would almost appear as if the Japs were deliberately sending out small vessels of any size and They are Sending Out All Kinds of Small Armed Craft on Suicide Missions to Engage and Take Up the ...

... CAUGHT AT THE NOONDAY SIESTA HOUR! The surrender of an Italian force as the result of a surprise attack by a British light armoured column whilst the enemy were resting in the noonday heat. The Italians were engaged on the construction of gun emplacements and other field works- Drawing by C. Syoti The comic incident depicted above concerned several hundred men of Italy's crack Pavia Division, ...