... U.S. MARINES FIGHTING A FIRE IN ONE OF THE HANGARS AT GUADALCANAR AIRFIELD, apparently caused during a Japanese air attack. Note the fuel barrels in the foreground and the aeroplane behind, which have been rolled to safety. Though the Japs have raided this base frequently only slight damage has been caused by them AN AMERICAN NAVAL PILOT, whose aircraft was brought down in the Solomon Islands ...

... FIVE TIMES Round The EQUATOR A Wonderful Steaming Record by H.M.S. Vanoc 'T'he British destroyer Vanoc which recently celebrated her Silver Jubilee, has built up an exceptionally high steaming record for her type of war vessel. A few days before her twenty-fifth birthday, she steamed 17,400 miles in three months, and was at sea for seventy-one days out of ninety. The engines 'responsible for ...

... AT AN A.T.A. ESTABLISHMENT IN THE HOME COUNTIES, where a number of American ferry pilots are employed by the R.A.F. Mrs. Roosevelt spoke to workers in the hangars through the microphone. On the right is Mrs. Churchill, who accompanied her to the aerodrome AT THE W.V.S. HEADQUARTERS IN EATON SQUARE Inspecting toys for children. From left to right are Lady Reading (Chief of the W.V.S. Mrs. ...

... BRITISH SAPPERS PENETRATE THE ENEMY'S MINEFIELDS TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR A FURTHER ADVANCE a picture taken at sunset showing how the Engineers clea ed a lane through deadly areas in front of the British lines to prepare for a continued advance of the 8th Army. These men of the vanguard have one of he most dangerous and essential of battle tasks to perform FOLLOWING ON THE SAPPERS, ALLIED ...

... Two Widely Separated Areas which are Now Being Linked With Special Sphere Diagrams Cince the British attack on Dakar. where powerful units of the French Fleet were sheltering, in September 1940, the West African situation has undergone a most complete change. To-day, the West Coast has become linked up with Egypt, and the whole Middle East, by reason of the roads and the air routes which have ...

... A Recent Four-day Attack, and a Two- day Attack by German Submarines And the Air Cover which Shore-based Aircraft now Provide for the Convoys Special Sphere Drawings and Diagrams A Norwegian escort group, which has been protecting British convoys in the Atlantic for over a year, recently won its first battle honours. In a forty-eight-hour fight, they beat off relays of U-boats, which attacked ...

... MALTA PREPARES FOR WINTER AndN°\hZ°r A BUILDING IN FLORIANA IS TORN DOWN TO GET AT THE BEAMS AND WOODWORK |n readiness for the coming of winter, the Demolition and Clearance Squads on Malta are pulling down blitzed buildings to get out the wooden beams which form part of their structure, for fuel. Where it is impos sible to pull down a whole building, the wooden balconies (of which there are ...

... NON-STOP ALLIED AIR ATTACKS BEHIND THE ENEMY'S LINES IN EGYPT in SUPPORT OF THE EIGHTH ARMY'S OFFENSIVE-- an R.A.F. attack on a supply train on the single-track line between Sidi Barrani and Mersa Matruh Dy day and by night, Allied air attacks have been carried out on the supply lines of the Axis in Egypt and along the North African coast. Lines of communication, transport, supplies, landing- ...

... --Pictures of the 8th Army Going Into Action, Sent by Radio from Cairo THE ATTACK BEGINS: ONE OF THE HUNDREDS OF BRITISH 25-POUNDER GUNS WHICH LAUNCHED A TERRIFIC BARRAGE at the enemy positions a short time before the Infantry went forward. The attack opened at 10 p.m. on October 23 under a full moon, when the 8th Army succeeded in its first objectives, the advance lines of the enemy's defence ...

... FRENCH NORTH AFRICA will Respond to the 'BIG BATTLE'' The Sentiments of the Vichy Navy and Army in the Event of a Show-down By FERDINAND TUOHY TWENTY-EIGHT months ago France was down and out and Axis disarmament commissions or agents were installing themselves at key points throughout French North Africa-- from Medenine, in Southern Tunisia, right through Algeria down to Agadir, on the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER --No. 166 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Mrs. Roosevelt- --I take my hat off to Mrs. Roosevelt. No doubt at all, I am a man of middle age, not remarkable for initiative, nor likely to qualify for a medal for gallantry-- a man, perhaps, who has not reformed his character to meet the conditions of total war up to the average standard 'of resolution and modernity of his ...

... The SMASHING RAID by the R.A.F. on the FRENCH KRUPPS British Official Pictures of the Bomb Damage at Le Creusot After the Daylight Raid by Ninety-fcur Lancasters on the Evening of October 17. In All Cases the Majority of the Damage was Caused by High-Explosive Bombs THE RESULT OF THE ATTACK ON THE BREUIL STEELWORKS, PART OF THE LE CREUSOT PLANT. The whole attack, it will be remembered, only ...