... 'rHE wide phrase Battle of the Atlan- tic covers an area which embraces the whole of the North Atlantic, the Carib bean Sea, and adjacent waters. Within this area, a continual struggle for ascendancy is being carried on by the Allied naval and air forces on the one hand, and the enemy under-sea arid air forces on the other. In practice, the area roughly divides itself into an eastern half, ...

... The DIVE-BRAKES of the DORNIER in ACTION The Umbrella-like Tail of the 217 Type, which has Converted a Bomber into a Dive-Bomber THE NEW DORNIER DO. 217 IN FLIGHT The dive-brakes are carried in the part of the tail projecting behind the twin rudders. These brakes operate in the manner shown on the right A CLOSE-UP OF THE TAIL OF THE AIRCRAFT, showing how the parachute dive-brakes look when not ...

... Vitabuov UarrA T r lAa A Anrts And this man is alive! Most Naval men choose the Vitabuoy because its buoyancy might be invaluable in emergency. Paymaster-Lieut. R.N., l'ound its fire-resisting properties almost as valuable. After a long spell on the bridge, be lay down on the chart -bouse floor. Suddenly he woke. There was the dickens of a bang and a shower of sparks. The pistol ammunition ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 155 L i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Right Note. --All the prophets were agreed, and all justified, when they told us in early summer that the few months following would be as full of anxiety and danger as any in history. It is true. The picture we look at is tense and dark and highlight reliefs are hard to seek. In the Caucasus the German advance seems irresistible and ...

... THE STRUGGLE IN THE PACIFIC Scenes at Port Moresby and Dutch Harbour THIS IS THE TOWN AND HARBOUR AT PORT MORESBY, IN NEW GUINEA, which his been bombarded from the air by Japanese aircraft for many weeks pas When this picture was taken further reinforcements of Australians had just landed to help in the land defence against the Jap infantry who are advancing across the north-eastern portion of ...

... THE TWO INDIAN LEADERS ARRESTED LAST WEEK (WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER PROMINENT CONGRESS LEADERS). Dr. Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, President (on left), and Mr. Gandhi (in centre) both of whom are now interned in Poona by the Government of India WW ith the recent challenge of the Congress Party, the Government of India decided on action forthwith against the leaders who were threatening to inaugurate ...

... A SCENE IN THE VICINITY OF TEL-EL-EISA (or Hill of Jesus), one of the fiercely-contested battlefields in the Alamein sector in Egypt. Tank transporters are hen seen with their cargoes of cruiser tanks on the way back to the forward areas after having been reconditioned. The tanks are now brought forward b this means to ensure that they go into action in a state of complete readiness and with ...

... A NEW IDEA FOR AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS A Training Ship Constructed Out Of a Side-Wheeler on the Great Lakes THE PASSENGER VESSEL SEEANDBEE which has been converted for the purpose of acting as a training vessel for pilots who will later be employed in the task of flvin? off the decks of aircraft-carriers at sea In a shipbuilding yard at Buffalo a twenty-nine-year-old passenger ship nears conversion ...

... CAN THE MEDITERRANEAN BE CLEARED? Or Does a State of Deadlock Now Exist The Actual Difficulties in the Path of Both Sides are Here Discussed By CHARLES P. HART AS the largest No Man's Land in the present war, the Mediterranean holds a unique and vital interest for all parties in the present struggle. About six times as large as the North Sea, the steaming distances in these often stormy and ...

... THE PADRE IN WARTIME The Work of the Parsons of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department WHEREVER Britain's fighting men engage the enemy there are men who face the same clangers whose only weapon is the will to help their fellows in time of need. Affectionately nicknamed by the troops Sky Pilots, they are the parsons of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department. Although the first care of the Army ...

... SECRETS of the F.W. 190 Fastest Fighter Aircraft Since the F.W. 190, with its revolutionary design, first appeared on the Western Front early this year, R.A.F. fighter pilots had done their best to chase one over the Channel to a home airfield. The Germans were warned not to risk capture of their secret machine, and F.W. 190s broke off combat whenever the fighting approached our shores. But ...

... LTive amateur yachts men have recently created a record by being the first amateur crew to sail successfully in con voy. They are part of a panel of volunteers who will run small ships from the building yards to the collection ports. Given the job of picking up a small motor vessel from the launching slips and bringing it safely over 250 miles to port, the crew did their work in three days ...