... WAR on the RUSSIAN PLAINS Contrasts Between This Year's Campaign and Last Year's The winter of 1941-42 forms a convenient dividing- line for the study of the Soviet-German War. In fact, it is a rather misleading distinction, for operations never really ceased on the front as a whole, though the centre of gravity naturally shifted south in the winter. Thus, while the atten tion of the world was ...

... Which has Just Suffered its First Attacks from the Germans Special drawings and diagrams l i ICELAND has just experienced her first contact with actual war. A German plane dropped bombs on the island on August 3, and a lighthouse was attacked two days later. Single Nazi planes have flown over, obviously on reconnaissance work, preparatory for a new phase in the German Atlantic campaign, ...

... An Official Series of Photographs Taken During the Combined Operations Raid the Largest yet Under taken Against the Enemy on the Occupied Coast The part played in the Raid by the Special Commando Troops and by the Royal Navy In preparation for the attack on the Dieppe area, a large military force was embarked on board naval vessels and transports; this force assembled and negotiated a most ...

... The RUSSIAN FLEET in the BLACK SEA How it is Made Up, and its Prospects for the Future UNTIL the loss of its chief naval base at Sebastopol, the Russian Fleet was in full command of the Black Sea. There was no opportunity for normal naval activity, for there were no enemy warships to attack, but the Fleet has been busily occupied in supporting the armies on land wherever possible, and in ...

... THE NEW INVASION BARGES MADE FOR THE U.S. MARINES This picture was taken in a south- eastern State in America during invasion rehearsals by the U.S. Marines. The barge is open-topped and runs on caterpillar tracks these have been Fitted with projection blades to carry it over land or through the water at a good speed. A tank in itself when operating on land, the barge can ferry troops to the ...

... GERMANY'S SELF-CONFERRED TROJAN HORSE Every Fourth Worker in the Reich Will Soon be a Foreigner Because Germany's Crying Need (as in the Last War) is for More and Still More Soldiers. Flow the System of Recruitment Works, and How the Millions of Foreign Workers Resent This Forced Labour, is Described Below By FERDINAND TUOHY THERE can be no doubt that Hitler counted on a novel use of ...

... SPIKING ENEMY GUNS AT EL ALAMEIN Captured enemy equip ment being demolished by New Zealand Sappers. These guns are of no use to the Allied Forces, so they are destroyed THE R.A.F. MAIL RUN TO BENGHAZI The daily load of bombs being delivered. The harbour at Benghazi is so frequently bombed that the pilots have named sorties to this target the Mail Run. This is the celebrated Cathedral Mole (so ...

... THE ROYAL NAVY IN ACTION In the Channel and in the Mediterranean (With a note on the Dodecanese Islands by Douglas Glen) THE Dodecanese Islands have recently been receiving marked attention both from R.A.F. bombers and the Navy. Aerodromes have been strafed and the Island of Rhodes bombarded at night. These attentions are probably due to the reports of various forms of activity in this ...

... TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH When the R.A.F. Beat the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain The second anniversary of the Battle of Britain has come round, and jumping the intervening two years, one can look on the epic August of 1940, when the German air force made its bid to conquer Britain. One cannot but thrill again to the story of the Homeric fights over the Channel and the fields of Kent and ...

... How the Ministry of Information was Conceived Before Munich, and Its Early and Very Confused History in the First Days of the War. To-day it is a Vast Organisation of Surprising Efficiency, and Covering So Many Fields as to Stagger the Average Citizen Who Has Never Been Told in Completeness of Its Great Complexity By CHARLES GRAVES THE World War enters on its fourth year within the next week. ...

... The MALTA CONVOY Official Pictures of the Fighting in the Sicilian Channel, when the Axis Air and Submarine Forces Attempted to Bar the Way to the George Cross Island The whole operation of the Malta convoy was under the command of Vice-Admiral E. N. Syfret, who flew his flag in the battleship Nelson; the aircraft-carriers were commanded by Rear- Admiral A. L. St. G. Lyster (the Fifth Sea Lord ...