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... A Young Soldier to His Mother A letter written by 2nd Lieut. Leechman to his mother in the event of his death. He died of wounds in Libya in June, aged 20 Mummie, My Darling, It seems here, at the moment, so odd that I should be sitting down to write on this cheap little bit of paper what may turn out to be my last letter to you. Should 1 die, I shall teel one great regret a regret that the ...
... With matchless skill born of generations of hand-loom weaving, the crofters of the Outer Hebrides impart to Harris Tweed a style and individuality you never find elsewhere. The ioo% pure virgin Scottish wool from which eachyardis made explains its unique softness, comfort and durability. Supplies of Harris Tweed are stil available, though in limited quantities Look for the Trade Mark on the ...
... (ice* f ri See its sparkling clearness as it bubbles in your glass. Take a deep draught. How clean and crisp it is on the tongue. Could you have believed that water could taste so satisfying v MALVERN SPA Just as delightful blended with spirits ...
... The WORST AIR-TORPEDO ATTACK of the WAR in which torpedo-bombers and circling torpedoes were used 11 1 FORTY-TWO GERMAN TORPEDO-BOMBERS ATTACK AT ONCE l he enemy approached the Convoy in line, then tanned out, to leap over the destroyer screen and dive in and out among the vessels of the Convoy Phe most threatening moment of all was the prolonged and concentrated assault carried out by ...
... WARFARE BY NIGHT BY AIR AND SEA Two Striking Night Impressions Taken During Recent Operations in Britain and in the Mediterranean The Boston bomber has been operating during the past months in daylight over France, under its R.A.F. designation of Boston III by night others of the same type (but known in the R.A.F. as the Havoc II) are now operating as Night Intruders over more or less the same ...
... BY APPOINTMENT TO H M KING GEORGE VI ^■j|H I Advert, of THE EDISON SWAN ELECTRIC Co. Ltd., 155 Charing Cross Rd., London, W.C.2 (L.26) ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 162 t New Oxford Street, W.C.i. The Primate's Great Speech.-- The Primate made a great speech on September 26. I judge it to have the importance of an Atlantic Charter put out by Church and State-- a pacific charter, if you will, con structive, sane and temperate. Here is the even mean, in nothing petty, in nothing party, the right line to charting, stabilising and ...
... The LIBERTY SHIP which was BUILT in TEN DAYS Three Pictures of Mr. H. J. Kaiser's GreatShipbuilding Feat on the Pacific Coast Mr. h. j. kaiser has already performed wonders in the construction of seagoing merchantmen but his recent achievement has staggered the whole world especially, let us hope, the Germans Within ten days he built and launched the 10,500-ton cargo ship shown in these three ...
... 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 ...