... The passage of the British convoy from the west to Malta on June 14-16 was under the command of Vice- Admiral Curteis. It was sighted and shadowed by enemy aircraft before it reached the Sardinia-North Africa Channel and from then onwards it was subjected to very violent Axis air attacks. Despite these, however, and despite the threat of attack by two enemy cruisers and four destroyers (which ...

... GOEBBELS SAYS LET 'EM ALL COME! Informed of Our Plans for the Creation of a Second Front, the Enemy have so Fortified the Occupied Coast that it Now Bristles with all Sorts of Obstacles to Impede Our Landings and to Check Our Advance. Some of These Defensive Measures are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY NEARLY a year has elapsed since the first rumblings were heard in the land for a Second ...

... 'Phe accompanying diagram has been prepared by our artist to illustrate one particular difficulty that must face our tank commanders in the desert, namely, what tactical use to make of the rather peculiarly constituted General Grant tank. This machine is in many ways a valuable weapon, especially as it has heavy armour what our own tanks have often lacked in the past but it is apparently slow ...

... The Great Port and British Naval Base of Alexandria Two Personal Impressions by Montague Dawson (Who Had Entered the Harbour, on Service, Several Times During the Last War) Alexandria has a popu lation of about 600,000, two magni ficent harbours of over 2,100 acres in extent, a vast series of quays and docks, an annual visiting tonnage of about 5,000,000 tons, and a big export trade. In ...

... MEMORIES OF FIFTY YEARS- An Experiment in Autobiography-- XV By J. G. LIMITATIONS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY.-- At this point my experiment in autobiography draws to an end, albeit the fruits of experience and the opinions and theories, and the loves and hates, of fifty years of conscious life remain to be harvested, graded and retailed ad lib. I will explain. In my submission, an autobiographer can ...

... The opening days of July were full of fate for the Allied forces In Northern Africa. On the first day of the month General Auchinleck met the armoured assault of General Rommel's forces on a terrain which was almost generally unknown throughout Britain. This particular patch of country is not described in the guide-books, although some 30 miles south two famous physical features, the Qattara ...

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... _ I III ill I ll^mwl I P I|lllin--I^M Ml l ITnm I I THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT THE HEIGHT OF THE ATTACK ON THE U.S. AIRCRAFT-CARRIER LEXINGTON j -Tii ilifc iwrii In r r i- Just above the horizon in the left centre is a Japanese torpedo-aircraft hedge-hopping over the anti-aircraft bursts as it closes in. The white spray in the left foreground was whipped up by the A. -A. shells the black ...

... ON THE NIGHT OF JUNE 25 IN THE BRIEFING ROOM at a Station of Bomber Command, as the crews received instructions before leaving for the 1,000-Raid on Bremen on the night of June 25 AFTER THE 1,000-RAID: This is where we got to. A member of one of the crews pinpoints his report. Two of these three officers have received the D.F.C. NIGHT-FIGHTER PILOTS AT BREAKFAST THE MORNING AFTER The Flight ...

... IWfuch of the fighting during the final days of the defence of Sebastopol took place under conditions peculiar to a fortress-city but one phase indicates the intensity of the bombing to which fortifications and city itself were subjected, and strikes a familiar note in the ears of the bombed in this country We grew to hate the moon, it is recorded of the defenders. They, too, knew the relief ...

... By One of Them Flight Lieutenant Denis A. Barnham, who has just returned from the thick of it in Malta, brings back these drawings done by himself of some of rhe men who have been playing such a tremendous part in the defence of the Island in the face of almost continuous enemy onslaughts. Flight-Lieutenant Barnham, who has himself shot down several enemy planes, is full of praise for the work ...

... THE PRIME MINISTER RETURNS TO LONDON AFTER HIS CONFERENCES IN WASHINGTON: WITH MRS. CHURCHILL AND CORPORAL MARY CHURCHILL, of the A.T.S., on his arrival at Euston after a flight back across the Atlantic in the world s biggest flying-boat On Saturday evening last, Mr. Winston Churchill arrived back in London after his conferences with President Roosevelt in Washington. His return trip, like his ...