... ON THE WAY OUT OF BURMA A Picture which has Only Just Been Received in this Country HOW BRITISH AND AMERICAN OFFICERS ESCAPED FROM THE JAPS With Burmese nurses in the party, the men are helping to build shelters on the rafts which took them down the Uyu River to the Chindwin Photographic material in illustration of the Allied withdrawal from Burma is very scarce it is for this reason that the ...

... SMOKE-SCREENS at SEA The Pros and Cons Discussed By ARTHUR BARRETT NAVAL actions are so rarely fought under conditions of perfect visibility, and the consequences of poor visibility from any cause are so disturbing to gunnery and manœuvre, that it is not surprising that much attention should have been given to the art of producing bad visibility conditions at will by smoke-screens. Any steam ...

... THE BUSY SCENE AT A NORTH RUSSIAN PORT, as ships bringing war supplies arrive and unload their precious cargoes at one of the now ice-free harbours HOW THE AMERICAN TANKS ARE CONVEYED as deck cargo to North Russia: Hoisted above the deck is one of the new life-saving rafts ready for instant launching THE WEATHER ON THE NORTHERN ROUTE TO RUSSIA CAN BE INTENSELY BITTER The decks of the trawlers ...

... THE AMERICAN ARMY IN BRITAIN What is Being Done for Their Welfare and Amusement in Special Clubs and in Sports, in Canteens and in Entertainment. With a Description of the Work of the Special Service Branch of the American Expeditionary Force By CHARLES GRAVES IT is quite apparent that very large numbers of American troops have arrived in this country-- soldiers, gobs, and airmen, and there ...

... THE BLACK GUARDS IN THE ORDER OF BATTLE The Reasons for the Introduction of the Waffen S.S.-- Hitler's Elite-- into Occupied France, and the Strange Manoeuvres of the German High Command to Fog British and Russian Intelligence Officers as to the Enemy's Real Strength in the East and in the West Described by FERDINAND TUOHY THE present is a period when brains and secret endeavour are devoted in ...

... AMERICA'S LATEST AIRCRAFT-CARRIER The U.S.S. Essex is Launched at Newport News, Virginia the First of a Class of Eleven April 28, 1941, the keel of the U.S. aircraft-carrier Essex was laid at the yard of the Newport News Company of Virginia. She is one of seven vessels of her class another four were also ordered from the Bethlehem Company of Qumcy. The Essex has just been launched, fifteen ...

... YY/ith the exception of the two portraits reproduced on these pages, all the pictures given here come from enemy sources or are disseminated through organisations known to be agents of- the Nazis. Malta is, and has been since Italy's entry into the war, a sharp thorn in the side of the Axis the more so since Rommel's need for reinforce ments in North Africa became so vital. With the Island in ...

... THE question whether the Axis would make any advance southwards towards the desert routes leading to the Nile has frequently been under dis cussion. The difficulties of transport, water and supplies were thought to have rendered such an advance by any considerable force quite impossible of achievement. And, in fact, no move was made by the Axis until the closing days of last month, when it was ...

... WHAT the NEW R.A.F. BOMBS DO An Illuminating Picture After a Raid on a Pivotal Point of the Western Germany Railway System On the night of July 29-30 the R.A.F. attacked Saarbriicken for the first time since November 1940. This is a pivotal point of Western Germany's railway system which, before the war, gave Ger many a fifth of her pig iron and steel and one-tenth of her coal. Reconnaissance ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 154 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The New School of War Literature.-- Lord Elton, as a broadcaster, is not exactly my cup of tea. His technique is excellent. He has the intimate,, conversation-à-deux manner in which Lord Ponsonby shines, and his latest discourse on books in wartime showed some sound and shrewd observation. He said with truth and courage that this war has ...

... THE CROSSING OF THE DON How it was Achieved by the Germans in the Face of the Intensest Russian Resistance 'The pictures reproduced here show scenes during the successful crossings of the Don River by the advancing Germans at the start of their drive down to the Caucasus. Although successful, these crossings were not effected without the most appalling losses by the enemy. The country ...

... --With two Special Sphere Drawings 'pie Mustang is being operated by the Army Co-operation Com- mand, in conjunction with Fighter Command. So far it has been kept to ground strafing forays over enemy territory On the first operational flight of this new U.S. -built aircraft, two hangars and a goods train were gunned, and anti-aircraft batteries were attacked. Other Mustangs have since attacked ...