... ■iir--miiiMiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii --i THE SECOND IN COMMAND OF THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET WITH THE SUBMARINE COMMANDER WHO HAS JUST BEEN AWARDED THE V.C VICE-ADMIRAL SIR HENRY PRIDHAM-WIPPELL WITH COMMANDER MIERS, V.C., D.S.O. (ON RIGHT), ON THE DECK OF H.M. SUBMARINE TORBAY ()n July 7 it was announced that Commander Anthony Cecil Capel Miers, D.S.O., had been awarded the Victoria Cross, for ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 150 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. El Alamein.-- On the great battle which has raged for many days round El Alamein I have deliberately refrained from comment. One day it may be cited as a decisive battle of the world. We to-day are in no position to judge, any more than we can prophesy whether it will be a victory or defeat. We gained in con fidence justifiably as the days ...

... LEADERSHIP IS HALF THE BATTLE The Example of Rommel is Now Before Us, and the Whole Question of Leadership in Battle is Under Scrutiny. We, too, Have Our Rommels if Only We Would Employ Them in the Right Fields of Action By FERDINAND TUOHY WHEN matters go wrong for British arms a praiseworthy national characteristic as likely as not makes itself felt-- namely, not to visit blame on the ...

... The Fighting in Libya AIR AND LAND FORCES IN CO-OPERATION Some Points on the Problem of Unified Con trol and Communication in Modern Warfan IT is becoming quite clear that the crucia problem of modern tactics is the join difficulty first, of keeping G.H.Q. informed of what is happening over a battle area of several hundred square miles, and secondly of securing rapid action upon the decisions ...

... DITCHING A PLANE How it is Done by a Big Bomber when It Can No Longer be Kept Up in the Air Over the Sea i iere are only two ways in which a pilot or a crew can alight on the sea. Either they can bale out, or the aircraft can be landed on the surface ditching, as it is c: lied. The first method is not often used by bomber c /s, their aircraft generally keeping afloat for a sufficient ti.Tie ...

... 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 ...

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... The WORK of the ROYAL NAVY: British Destroyers Carry Out Exercises at Se:> A DIVISION OF DESTROYERS FORMING LINE AHEAD: In the tactical handling of these fast vessels, the British Navy has no superior. Destroyers are seldom it rj during war their duties are wide-ranging, and their crews are on active service for long periods on end THE FLOTILLA IN LINE AHEAD A fine impression of modern vessels ...

... When the South African Division holding the Gazala positions fell back along the coast road to the Tobruk area after Rommel's break through at Knightsbridge and El Adem, the line of retreat was held open for them by the 50th Division. This had the result that the latter themselves became surrounded To have attempted a break-through to the east would have been certain suicide Major-General ...

... T he Fighting in Egypt ROMMEL'S EASTWARD DASH CHECKED GERMAN PRISONERS BEING GIVEN WATER as they come in to a forward P.O.W. camp in the desert. This is usually their first, and their most urgent, need THE EGYPTIAN ARMY Though small, it is good, with equipment which has been immensely modernised of late years. Here an anti-aircraft gun is manned by its Egyptian crew in a sandbagged emplacement ...

... YY/hen it became apparent that Rommel's eastern drive through Egypt had Alex andria as its immediate objective, concern was expressed as to the fate of the Mediterranean Fleet. Since the outbreak of the war, Alexandria has been a principal base in the great Inland Sea since Italy's entry into the war, the principal one. The city dates back to very early times it was founded in 331 B.C. by ...

... AN AMERICAN GENERAL AT WORK WITH HIS STAFF IN THIS COUNTRY Lieut.-General Dwight Eisenhower is the Commander of the U.S. Army Forces in Europe he was only recently promoted to his present rank by the President. Above he is seen with two members of his personal staff Lieut. -Com. Harry C. Butcher and Captain Ernest R. Lee THE OWNER ARRIVES IN BRITAIN after a flight across the Atlantic by ...