... (See also pp. 298-301 of this Issue DAWN OUTSIDE DIEPPE Wednesday, August 19. The Channel was crossed under cover of darkness, and the principal attack was launched at dawn. The naval vessels engaged were protected by a strong air umbrella, which covered the landings and allowed the withdrawal to take place as planned. A feature of the whole raid was the absence of enemy surface craft to ...

... What Happened to the Twenty-eight Fighting Vehicles Landed on the Beaches How They Behaved During the Great Raid And the Possibilities of the Tank in Further Similar Operations Special Sphere Drawings and Notes ONE of the most interesting features of the Dieppe raid was our employment of tanks during the operation. Their landing from special craft at the water's edge, awkward crunching up the ...

... AIR-CONDITIONED TANKS? Methods the Germans May Have Adopted in Libya TRAVELLING at the equivalent of naval action stations, a tank is almost completely battened down. Direct visibility is limited to a few square inches of bullet-proof glass, and direct ventilation to what air can be induced through ventilation louvres on the under side of the tank-- those on the upper deck, so to speak, ...

... CAN MERCHANTMEN DESIGN BE IMPROVED? The Construction of the Tanker and the Freighter Compared 1 1 A considerable number of suggestions have been made from time to time concern ing methods to circumvent torpedo attack on merchantmen. Many of the suggestions such as giant submarines, or vessels lying so low in the water as to be almost awash, and others are not immediately practical but here is ...

... Before and After its Bombing by the R.A.F. in Occupied France Official Air Ministry Photographs The following is a key to the damage done as indicated in the photograph on the right 1. Main shop of nine bays area 3,000 by 130 ft. One hit, and possibly a second. A large area of the roofing has been stripped and part of the west wall shattered. 2. Long building, area 500 by 40 ft. Roof damaged ...

... EGYPT A New German Weapon A Tank, which is a Mobile Gun Plat form, Just Captured by the 8th Army An Official Picture Wirelessed from Cairo This extraordinary picture shows a new Ger man armoured weapon which has just been inspected by Mr. Wendell Willkie during his tour of the Middle East. It is the first of its kind to be captured by the 8th Army in Egypt, and it was taken during Rommel's ...

... THE SPIRIT OF RUSSIA TO-DAY This picture shows how the civilian population of Soviet Russia are backing up the efforts of the Red Army in the field. It depicts the scene in a workshop of an underground factory in a city of the Soviet Union which has suffered heavy attacks from the I aggressors. The workers are producing arms for defenders of the city, despite the crowded quart artificially ...

... The Breton Fishermen of the West Country Who are Now Established in One Corner of Cornwall which They Have Made Their Very Own. With a Note on the Nazis' Present Treatment of Brittany in Occupied France By FERDINAND TUOHY SEARCH Europe, and you will have difficulty in finding luckier refugees from Hitler than the Bretons in Cornwall. Not many in number, counting women and children and adopted ...

... THE TANK COMMANDER OF A U.S. CREW, a sergeant, uses his binoculars to inspect a distant point in the desert through his open turret. American crews are now working side by side with British Tank Regiments in Egypt. Note the manner in which the machine-gun is fixed on a swivel mounting in this* picture and also the open turret flaps MR. R. G. CASEY, MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST, hu just ...

... ATTACK BY THE R.A.F. And the Types of Aircraft which are Being Employed-- special sphere drawings THE LATEST TYPE OF FLYING FORTRESS, WITH WHICH THE U.S. AIR FORCES HAVE BEEN SCORING NOTABLE SUCCESSES in high-level, daytime bombing against the Germans. What the new type looks like, how it is armed and how its successes have been achieved- -Drawing by Roland Davits When the first of the Flying ...

... BRITAIN S NEW HEAVY INFANTRY TANK, THE CHURCHILL, IS LANDED FROM A T.L.C. and moves off at speed over rough ground A scene during battle manoeuvres in Britain (This is one of the first pictures to be released showing the new tank in action) All the world has known of the existence of the Churchill tank details of its construction were announced by the Prime Minister himself during the Commons ...

... A part from a few very old destroyers such as the Vega and the Admiralty S and R classes the Hunts are the smallest destroyer type in the Royal Navy. Since the end of the last War, these vessels showed a general increase in tonnage but in 1939, when the Hunts were laid down under the Programme for that year, a return was made to the idea of a small, general-purpose destroyer. At least thirty ...