... GENERAL MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE EIGHTH ARMY, PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE FORWARD AREA as he looked out from the turret of his American-built tank to witness his men pursuing the fleeing Afrika Korps on Wednesday, November 4 This picture was sent by radio from Cairo it was taken a few hours before London and the world received from Middle East Headquarters the dramatic communique which told of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 167 i, New Oxford Street, W.i. A Grand Job in the Desert.-- We are entitled (fire works on Guy Fawkes Day!) to be proud of our Army in Egypt. Alex ander's Ragtime Band, which the Duce's very latest slogan condemned to be kicked in the pants by the advanc ing Italians, has, under Montgomery, won lasting glory. The boot was on the other foot and the pants on the other ...

... The U.S. Landings in North Africa Where the American Forces Landed; and the Officers in the High Command TTn Sunday last the announcement was made that Allied expeditionary forces had converged on a number of ports and strategic points on the Atlantic and Mediterranean shores of Northern Africa. It is interesting to note that they are all within the Atlas Mountain region, Saffi being the most ...

... BOMBS ON GENOA The Port from which Rommel in North Africa is Reinforced ^enoa is the North Italian port from which supplies and reinforcements are shipped to the Axis forces in North Africa. These official Air Ministry pictures were taken after the raids on the nights of October 22-23 and October 23-24 and this damage has been increased in subsequent raids Most of the damage is due to fire, ...

... GUADALCANAL The Fierce Struggle for the Smallest Theatre of War Xhe big aerodrome on Guadalcanal forms a not inconsider able portion of the small area held by U.S. forces on the island. From east to west this fiercely-contested plot of ground measures but six miles it extends inland to a depth of three miles. On all three land sides, the area is flanked by tropical forest growth and palm ...

... AMERICAN INDUSTRY BECOMES GEARED UP What is Going On in the Vast Industrial Centres of the United States To-day Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE United States has always enjoyed a reputa tion for mass production, but from the latest information received in London it would appear that if Hitler, Göring and Goebbels were taken on a conducted tour of the war factories over there they might, in all ...

... . . (/(tttit t'lt'Ctl t o 4 If these were the piping days of peace this would just be a photograph of a happy little boy. Until then, it is a picture of the unobtainable a banana. But wait Isn't it a symbol of all we are fighting for Not merely that a banana may be a commonplace, but that children can be happy and grow up to live sensible, useful lives with never another war to come grasping ...

... 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. ...

... A SMOKE-SCREEN BEING LAID BY BRITISH WARSHIPS TO COVER THE LANDINGS AT ARZEU BAY, NEAR ORAN This spot lies some 20 miles to the east of Oran. French ships were captured here by the Royal Navy, one of them a merchantman laden with soldiers. A later landing was completely unopposed by the French it gave the U.S. troops control of the small and smelly, but vital, port of Arzeu. While U.S. troops ...

... CAPTIVES FROM EGYPT: on an Aerodrome in Tunis THE GERMAN GENERAL VON THOMA WITH MAJOR BURCKHARDT, Commander of the German Parachute troops in Egypt. Both are now prisoners in our hands THE ROYAL NAVY KEEPS UP THE WATER SUPPLIES FOR THE EIGHTH ARMY Using Tank Landing Craft, the Navy is taking tens of thousands of fresh-water barrels to the advancing Eighth Army another instance of the perfect ...