... 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 ...

... THE DUCHESS OF KENT REAPPEARS IN PUBLIC For the first time since the death of the Du|te, she appeared in public when she visited a W.R.N.S. Training Centre in the London area. Here she is passing through a guard of honour composed of trainees who have only been in the Service for two weeks WIFE OF THE C.-IN-C., MIDDLE EAST Lady Margaret Alexander at a W.V.S. nursery in Regent's Park during its ...

... I '■..■MM gefore the great offensive could open in earnest, it was necessary that the I enemy minefields be cleared, so that tanks and other vehicles could go forward in support of the infantry. During the weeks of preparation before I the British assault, the Axis had sown big minefields all along the com paratively short front from El Alamein to the Qattara Depression these were made up of ...

... THE BOMBS OF THE R.A.F. The Power of Their Expanding Gases Shown in a Series of Special Diagrams by L. Ashwell Wood HP he use of the 8,ooo-pounder bomb (known -i- to the Germans, owing to its destructive effect, as the Block Bomb has caused the most widespread havoc throughout enemy- territory. The tremendous amount of high explosives packed into these giants has disin tegrated whole blocks of ...

... AUSTRALIAN TROOPS, HELD UP BY A GERMAN STRONG-POINT, lay down a dense smoke-screen to hide their movements, and then rush in from all sides. This picture shows them advancing just before the strong-point fell A PICTURE TAKEN IN THE THICK OF THE BATTLE just after the capture of the strong-point by the Australians it shows a wounded German being helpc I back to a dressing-station by British ...

... PINNING PRUSSIA AS THE CURSE What is the Truth About the Junker in Germany To-day? By FERDINAND TUOHY REMARKS made by Dr. Goebbels while touring Germany in the wake of R.A.F. raids have given wing again to an old idea-- that of stig matising Prussia in front of the other German States, in the hope that these will blame the Berlin Bully for their unhappy lot domestically and before the world. ...