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... Incidents from the Desert During Rommel's Attempt to Capture Tobruk With Special Sphere Sketches A DESERT FANTASY A U.S.-built Kittihawk fighter belonging to the famous Sharknose 1 Squadron of the R.A.F. during a Libyan sandstorm ,,4'Tgl r HAULING A BRITISH GUN INTO ACTION IN THE DESERT One ot the chief features of the fighting has been the power and effectiveness of the Eighth Army's mobile ...

... A ROCKET-SHELL from RUSSIA The Amazing Possibilities of the Latest Anti-Tank Weapon NEWS leaking out of Russia recently about the rocket-shell that is apparently being used by Soviet aircraft to attack tanks, confirms the opinion expressed by a British air expert in Moscow that here we may have the most successful of all the inventions this war has produced so far. Indeed, if the device is ...

... The FULLY ARMOURED PLANE Is This the Next Big Development in the Aircraft of the Near Future By PATRICK HAMILTON WHEN some enterprising American christened the Boeing B17 the Flying Fortress, he symbolised a hope rather than an actual achievement. It is the ambition of all the combatants in this war to evolve a machine which realty will be a flying fort, heavily armoured as well as heavily ...

... River Warfare in Burma and Malaya Did We M/'ss Opportunities in Amphibian Encounters During these Two Disastrous Campaigns? By ARTHUR BARRETT ALTHOUGH Kipling's marine was proud of being a giddy harumfrodite-- soldier and sailor, too-- his superiors on the General Staff have never shown much liking for amphibious operations. Things go wrong too easily. Even the Germans, past-masters of ...

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