... Some Notes on Details of the Uniform and Equipment of the U.S. Soldiers Now Serving Over Here By PETER J. ROMFORD THE American, designation of its over seas units as task forces implies a logical approach to the job of equipping each contingent for the particular task it is intended to tackle. One may assume, consequently, that the equip ment seen on members of the United States forces in ...

... The Organisation of Hunger as a Determining Factor in War is Now Being Carried to its Logical Conclusion by the Nazis. Possibilities Arising Out of the Russian Campaign are Discussed Here in the Light of what has Already Taken Place Throughout the Occupied Territories By FERDINAND TUOHY THERE exists a comfortable school of thought which maintains that, even should Timoshenko go back and back, ...

... The BATTLE LINE in EGYPT New Official Pictures from the 8th Army ADVANCED BRITISH MOTOR COLUMNS HARASS THE ENEMY The type of men who take part in the attacks on the German lines of supply Reports from Egypt before Auchinleck's big offensive told of the splendid work carried out by our men in operations actually within enemy territory in the Alamein sector. Motor brigades, such as those ...

... ART AND INDUSTRY IN LAKELAND The Work of the Royal College of Art in its Wartime Home in the Lake District The Ro/al College of Art is the oldest in the world it was evacuated two years ago from Kensington to a small town in the Lake District, with its Principal (Mr. P. H. Jowett) and a number of distinguished Professors and instructors in painting, sculpture, engraving, weaving, pottery, etc. ...

... GENERAL FREYBERG, V.C., AFTER HE HAD BEEN WOUNDED IN THE FIGHTING AT MERSA MATRUH. THE GENERAL IS LYING IN A SLIT-TRENCH AFTER THE ENEMY HAD BEGUN TO SHELL THE FIELD DRESSING-STATION TO WHICH HE HAD BEEN CONVEYED I ieut.-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., was the G.O.C. the New Zealand Division at the battle for Mersa Matruh during the last war he was wounded on innumerable occasions, and at ...

... new ACT AT I rtM kn DAMDCDi Three Aerial Views of Sebastopol and WE V Hj I H I I V/N Dy DUrlDCrV. Tobruk After Heavy Attacks from the Air *a yssiraJHHi iwp SEBASTOPOL AFTER WEEKS OF INCESSANT POUNDING FROM THE AIR A picture showing the scene of devastation in the central part of the town mm rr tbwbwf ir n n w TOBRUK UNDER ATTACK BY THE R.A.F. Wellingtons scoring direct hits on important ...

... THE AUSTRALIANS ARRIVE AT EL ALAMEIN Moving up to the forward area with their own 25-pounder anti-tank guns. Their arrival so soon on the scene of battle apparently took the Germans by surprise J v TANK REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE A new Valentine being unloaded at a desert railhead. Men of the Royal Tank Regiment take delivery and prepare the new arrivals for battle 'WARE MINES British troops and ...

... A UNITED STATES WARPLANE CIRCLES OVER A SHIP in an Allied Convoy as troops, equipment and supplies reach Port Moresby, in New Guinea. This picture was made from the deck of another ship in the Convoy TROOPS AND STEVEDORES AT WORK ON A RECENTLY-ARRIVED CONVOY RUN FOR SHELTER as an air-raid alarm interrupts their work. Port Moresby has been subjected to continuous and heavy attack for months ...

... Bayonets, Trenches and Reserves are Amongst Old Methods which should not be Entirely Abandoned in the Present War By DONALD COWIE THE title of this article is a quotation from, of all places, a modern German military manual; and it condenses a very important truth, the ignorance of which has often brought disaster to the more rigid type of military mind. Supposing, just for a hypothetical ...

... _ Tk ITMrrn f :)Tfl r -r mICTm 1 I I a B CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL TO-DAY The view of the ancient edifice as it rises beyond the ruins of houses and shops in Burgate Street destroyed in the German raid on June 2. The Cathedral itself was not hit (as was announced some time ago), but the adjacent Library was demolished bombs shattered the Deanery and destroyed Chapter residences, and the damage ...

... GERMANY'S NAVAL STRONGHOLDS in NORWAY And the Fortifications all Along the Occupied Coast Which She has Now been Forced to Construct IT was in December of last year that Hitler first became really alive to the extreme danger of the long coastline which he has to hold: alarmed by the successful raids by the Allies on the Norwegian coast, he was impelled to reassure the German people that the ...

... LIFE IN CHUNGKING --CAPITAL OF NATIONALIST CHINA A First-hand Narrative of How the City Stands Up to the Terrific Air Raids by the Japs By DAVID CROOK WITHIN an hour of reaching Chungking, I saw something which symbolised the spirit of fighting China. A group of coolies were setting up a new building in the middle of a burnt-out lot, devastated by high- explosives and incendiaries. On the edge ...