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... The DEFENCE of STALINGRAD New Pictures of the Fighting Along the Volga River r l K J DOWNCAST GERMAN PRISONERS, amongst whom may be observed airmen of the Luftwaffe, marching away to the rear after capture during the fierce battles on the Eastern Front ONE OF THE PORTIONS OF THE OUTER RING OF STALINGRAD now in German hands. The buildings which still stand are mere shells, and the streets are ...
... THEINVISIBLE BRIDGES OF STALINGRAD The Clever Russian Device Whereby Supplies and Reinforcements were Brought Across the Volga The defence of Stalingrad has called forth one of the cleverest devices of the present war the invisible bridge, across which Marshal Timoshenko poured reinforcements and supplies into the city every night. This Russian invention, first used in the battles of the ...
... 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 ...
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... THE AIR FORCE CHIEF AND THE W.A.A.F. CORPORAL SIR CHARLES PORTAL AND SIR LESLIE GOSSAGE INSFECT THE GIRLS OF THE BALLOON BARRAGE and are shown round Ye Olde Log Cabin by Corporal Janet Postage- Inland, 2d. Canada and Newfoundland, Id. Elsewhere Abroad, l£d. a \A/hen Air Chief-Marshal Sir Charles Portal (Chief of the Air Staff) and Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gossage (A.O.C., Balloon Command) ...
... THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN One of the Most Difficult of the Many Wartime Problems Which Have Arisen on the Home Front By CHARLES GRAVES ONE of the chief problems on the Home Front is provided by juvenile delinquency. This was 30 per cent, greater in December 1941 than it was in peacetime. And there is no reason to suppose that there has been any drop during the past nine months. There is, ...
... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 163 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Stalin on Allied Help.-- Stalin's answers to a newsman's ques tionnaire must have heartened Goebbels and perhaps somewhat chilled those sea- captains who drive through the infested seas to Archangel, not without hard ship and danger. Stalin is hard-pressed, and his choice of words can easily be misinterpreted. Every ally he has is acutely ...
... Pictures from the U.S., Syria and France MRS. HENRY J. KAISER LAUNCHES ONE OF HER HUSBAND'S SHIPS With the master shipbuilder as a spectator, Mrs. Kaiser prepares to break a bottle of champagne against a Liberty ship which was built in the record time of 24 days. Since then Mr. Henry J. Kaiser has built a vessel complete in 14 days He operates several yards in the United States and more are ...
... LORRY-BORNE INFANTRY IN THE EGYPTIAN DESERT How the Modern Soldier Takes the Omnibus into Battle The Technique of the Infantry Onslaught of To-day Described by F. A. NOLAN IN the days when the tank's best speed was a mere 5 m.p.h., supporting in fantry could trudge fairly comfortably along in the rear. As soon as armoured vehicles became capable of up to 30 m.p.h. over any kind of ground, the ...
... WHEN A TANK IS HIT A Few Impressions of what Happens when the Big Desert Vehicles are Caught by Concentrated Shell-fire During Battle Throughout the desert, where the fighting has been fiercest, are large areas now littered with the debris of modern warfare blackened, blown-up tanks charred lorries ruined transport vehicles. The manner in which large tanks can be blown up is surprising and a ...
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