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... FLYING FROM AIRCRAFT-CARRIERS From the Point of View of the Pilot Much-- possibly too much-- has been written of aircraft-carriers from the strategic angle. Very little has been written about them from the pilot's or operational angle. Before doing so, though, it may be as well to put on record that they are popular ships with flying personnel, that the air-crews themselves know full well the ...
... THE AXIS ASSAULTS ON ALLIED CONVOYS And the Counter-blows to Defeat the Attacks of Bombers and Submarines Rocket-wires versus Bombers at Sea: THE revelation that some of our merchant ships are now carrying rocket-guns marks a step forward in the progress of this weapon, which, against all expert opinion in former years, seems destined to play an increasingly-important part in warfare. The ...
... By Our Flying Correspondent NO one was more popular in the whole world of British aviation, civil and military, operational and manufac turing, than the Duke of Kent. He was not only air-minded, but was himself a practising airman, and it came as a deep shock to every pilot in the country to hear of his death in a flying accident in the north of Scotland on August 25. It would be impossible, ...
... I A YEAR ago in the Isle of Wight, the Borough of Ryde decided to help substantially in the Dig for Victory Campaign, and help themselves and the Island at one and the same time. A site was chosen on waste land in a sheltered valley at Knighton and to cut a long story short, 25} tons of perfect tomatoes were grown on if acres of land 1 It is not surprising that with the experience and success ...
... SEPTEMBER 4, 1942 TfjplcJC the Safety glass FORTNIGHTLY (j^) The Illustrated SPORTING and DRAM ATI C News-- SPORT COUNTRY ...
... Illustrated Sporting Dramatic News, September 4, 1942 I burlingtonX^ Half Coronas I/- y Petit Coronas //4^^| Coronas I /8 Obtainable from all High Class Dealers and Stores Cco^r REMEMBER That tense excitement the spontaneous applause when a match point was gained the sun beating down on the players the lush green of the grass, trimmed to perfection by Shanks Mowers. They will come again, ...
... THE unit in our pictures is the Bray (Berkshire) Com pany of the Home Guard, and 100 per cent, of its personnel volunteered to form what is believed to be the first H.G. Voluntary Land Club in the country. This additional activ ity detracts in no way from the ordinary military activities of the unit, who have adopted The Vicar of Bray as their official marching song. The farm is the stud farm ...
... All in a Good Cause Cochran's Hampstead Heath Big Top Aids Yugoslav Relief Hampstead Heath was once again the 'Appy 'Ampstead of days gone by, when Mr. Charles B. I Cochran took possession for all too short a time, and presented to a rap turous public all the spellbinding allure of a Giant Circus, with real lions, a mammoth Fun Fair, and a host of top- line variety artists, headed by ...
... By Elizabeth Bowen Wit and the Wilds YOU never know what may be going to happen. Unforeseen changes of fortune, of location, of interests are not confined to wartime. You plan one life, then find your self living another. Of young women yet to marry-- as Miss Magdalene King-Hall shows-- this proves specially true. She was a contented young Londoner, theatre critic, and already the authoress of ...
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... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 157 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Duke of Kent.-- The nation, in all sincerity, shares in the grief which has befallen the Duchess of Kent, Queen Mary and the Royal family by the death, on war duty, of the Duke of Kent. This was a young man of great charm and promise, and, already of fulfilment. there was. indeed, a singular charm about this handsome couple which had ...
... What Jacques Doriot, Most Ardent Turncoat and Collaborationist of Them All, Will Do If and When He Achieves Power. The Career of This Extraordinary Quisling and His Adventures in Russia and Germany are Here Traced in Detail By FERDINAND TUOHY OFFICIAL Washington enjoys special pipe lines of information from both zones in France, and it will not be surprised if Laval shoots his bolt very soon ...