... PICTURES from EGYPT Where the 8th Army and the Axis Forces have Once Again been Engaged in Heavy Fighting BOMBING THE AXIS SUPPLY LINES IN EGYPT More than a score of bombs from Allied air craft are here seen bursting on their target during an attack by light bombers on a concentration of Rommel's motor transport. Vehicles which have escaped the full force of the bombs are seen as tiny specks ...

... A FLEET in SEARCH of its BASES What is to Happen to the Soviet Fleet in the Black Sea By FERDINAND TUOHY A YEAR ago the Russian Black Sea Fleet was no mean armada based on Odessa and Sebastopol, first-class naval harbours, repair and supply depots. It was a fleet of all types, from battleships to the Soviet equivalent of E-boats, and it included a sizeable air arm. Its exact composition had, ...

... WAR BY SEA AND AIR New Pictures from Britain, America and Germany THE BRITISH CORVETTE DIANTHUS RAMS AND SINKS A U-BOAT after a three-hours chase Some of the German prisoners disembarking at a British port. I„ a midnight battle in the Atlantic, H.M. corvette Dianthus (Lieut. -Commander C. E. Bridgeman, R.N.) rammed and sank a U-boat after a three-hours chase. After the submarine had been blown ...

... THE WAY OF THE LUFTWAFFE AT SEA Shooting at Sitting Birds whilst the Air-Sea Rescue launch is speeding out to save British airmen who have taken to their rubber dinghies WHEN AIRMEN TAKE TO THEIR DINGHY A two-man type, showing how it is operated in the sea The man on the left is wearing the bellows round his neck, to pump in more air if required. The man on the right is using the canvas ...

... Errors in Flight, when Heavy Weather Often Creates Special Difficulties Against which the Pilot has to be on Constant Guard Described by PETER LISCOMB THE Duke of Kent's tragic death when his Sunderland crashed into a Scottish hillside revives a question which must puzzle many laymen. Why do planes crash into hills Why, in thick weather, cannot they fly well above them Surely modern ...

... Overcoats are now being brought out by the men of the Eighth Army, owing to the sharpness of the autumn morning air. Here a small Special Party, scouting through the desert south of the main positions at El Alamein, wake at sunrise, whilst the sun is still throwing long shadows and the chill night air still lingers Drawing by Edward Osmond The news contained in a recent communique from the ...

... CASUALTIES on the LIBYAN FIELD Saving the Wounded, and Honouring the Dead under Desert Conditions By DONALD COWIE HERE is a true story of the Libyan campaign that illustrates the difficulty of giving wounded men proper attention, and the splendid work of the Royal Army Medical Corps in spite of that. A twenty-four-year-old bombardier was filling ammu nition clips under German artillery fire ...

... The Enthronement of a Bishop And Other News Items from the Home Front THE NEW BISHOP IS ENTHRONED AT WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL-- Dr. Haigh asks admission on his arrival Dr. Mervyn George Haigh was formerly Bishop of Coventry. A few days ago he was enthroned as the new Bishop of Winchester. No bells were rung for the occasion and the silence of the bells has been regretted by many leading churchmen, ...

... WHERE THE MONEY GOES: a -Facts -and-Fiuures Stridv of the Cost of Modern Fighting Equipment By A. P. NEWALL AT one of the pre-war Navy Weeks, so the story goes, a Cockney prolonged his visit to a battleship unduly, on the grounds that, as a taxpayer, it was his property. All right, said a burly bos'un, presenting him with a match- stick-size sliver of teak, here's your share; now hop it! ...

... THE TINIEST OF THE OCCUPIED COUNTRIES The Reckless Courage of Luxemburg, Which Has Burst Out Into Defiance of the German Occupiers and Started the First Organised Mass Attack Against the Nazis ON September 3 Germany annexed the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, which then became part of the Reich, the people having the privilege of German citizenship bestowed upon them by the gracious gift of the ...

... MR ANTHONY EDEN IN BATTLE-DRESS: THE FOREIGN SECRETARY AND GENERAL SIR BERNARD PAGET, COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF HOME FORCES, witness a bin-scale Army exercise in Yorkshire-- a picture taken as the tanks were moving off across a cornfield during the operations The Foreign Secretary and Lieut.-Colonel the Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (Indian representative in the War Cabinet) have just returned ...

... U TOWITZERS WHICH ARE NOW IN ACTION IN EGYPT This is one of the American-built 155-mm. howitzers they were originally designed in ance, but are now made by our Allies. Men of the Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, operate these powerful weapons and, above, gunners are seen removing the camouflage nets prior to going into action AXIS SUPPLY LINES UNDER ATTACK FROM THE AIR: A direct hit is scored ...