... THE COST OF BOMBING The Losses of Bomber Command During a Nine Months' Offensive 1,082 Aircraft The Secretary for Air has now made known to the House of Commons the number of British bombers lost over Germany and Northern Europe during the nine months ending with September 30. During this period, Bomber Command carried out raids on 79 days and 140 nights the losses incurred were 1,082 aircraft ...

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... WINTERatSEA I Sidelights on Naval Life in Northern Waters when the Heavy Weather Comes to the High Latitudes By MICHAEL J. MASSEY ALL armies, from the days of Cæsar downwards, have gone into winter quarters to a greater or lesser extent. Not so the Navy (where the subtle differ ence between sea-going and sea-keeping is fully understood), and life at sea in the winter, even aboard the largest ...

... FIGHTING in the STRATOSPHERE A Return to the Subject of High Flying and Its Possibilities for Modern Bombing and Fighting Aircraft By LEONARD R. GRIBBLE THE announcement made recently that the Luft waffe has two new high-flying planes in opera tion, and that the R.A.F. has a new Mark Vc Spitfire climbing to a fresh ceiling, has increased speculation about the possibilities and probabilities of ...

... 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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... SIR ROBERT AND LADY CRAIGIE return to Britain from Tokyo, o 1 the Egyptian liner El Nil, after a ten-months' delay THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR IN LEEDS Mr. John D. Winant, with the Duke of Devonshire (Chancellor of Leeds University), when the former received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Law MR. WENDELL WILLKIE IN BEIRUT, with General Catroux (of the Fighting French), on arrival at the Syrian ...

... THE BRITISH DESTROYER ITHURIEL DRAWS NEAR TO THE STRICKEN ITALIAN SUBMARINE COBALTO to take off those of the crew who remained aboard, and to pick up the seamen still floating on the sea. The U-boat's bow is riding high in the water, but her stern was submerged NEARER STILL THE ITHURIEL APPROACHES THE DOOMED U-BOAT The stern is sinking lower in the water, there is a gaping hole in the conning ...