... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 170 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Nothing Succeeds Like Success.-- In a night, another trans formation alters the scene of war. Not one or two, but four or five thou sand miles of the coastline of Africa are added to the Allied territory of vital bases and harbours and airfields, and the Axis hold on Africa recedes to what is, comparatively speaking, a pin-point. That ...

... On Thursday, November 12, a Japanese naval force was approaching the island of Guadalcanal in the Solomons (held by the Americans), from the north, between Isabel and Florida Islands at the same time, another force a protected Japanese convoy was coming down from the north-west. On November 13, the Jap fleet from the north was caught by a surprise U.S. naval attack in the darkness the American ...

... On left Although she Is a veteran of the last war, H.M.S. Valorous (one of the famous V and W class destroyers) has already steamed 120,000 miles in this war, shepherding convoys up and down the East Coast and in the North Sea. She has shot down several Nazi planes, and in nearly three years of convoy escort work she has had many brushes with E-boats. Lieut.-Lom. W. ritzroy, K.IN., who ...

... TUNISIA THE NEW BATTLE AREA IN NORTH AFRICA A Brief Survey of the Country and Its People-- to Act as a Background for Communiques from the British First Army By ARTHUR BARRETT IN the houses of the North African Moors are said to hang keys-- taken from Spanish palaces to which they still hope to return. In Italy, they pre served no keys but the desire to reoccupy Tunisia (the old Roman ...

... How the Airborne Divisions of the British Army are Trained, the Equipment They Carry, and the Speciql Gliders in which They are Transported to the Scene of Action BRITISH airborne troops are officially designated as either parachute or air-landing units; the machines used for the latter may be either troop-carriers (usually bombers no longer considered absolutely suited for their purpose, such ...

... A Jolly Roger flag, crowded with symbols of success, is the prized possession of H.M. Submarine Proteus, which recently returned to a British base after a year's service in the Mediterranean. The central emblem of this flag, a skull and crossbones, is surrounded by devices which represent many thrilling inci dents. There are seven stars surrounding crossed gun-barrels for vessels sunk by ...

... POWER-OPERATED GUN-TURRETS FOR THE NAVY Some ships have recently been fitted with Boulton and Paul gun-turrets similar to those installed in our bombing aircraft: already they have proved successful in bringing down attacking enemy planes at sea. The ship's turrets have been specially modified for the new uses to which they are being put. One of them is here receiving its finishing touches ...

... f JKH m3% S W THE TIDE OF WAR RECEDES FROM STALINGRAD, LEAVING WHOLE SECTIONS OF THE CITY IN A STATE OF COMPLETE RUIN. The heroic Red Army have beaten he enemy back along whole sectors of the Stalingrad front and those Germans who now remain within the city itself are trapped in the sack, the r ;ck of which is being drawn tighter by the Russians. But the city itself is in ruins the new aerial ...

... ISLAM in the UNITED NATIONS' ORBIT The Vast Muslim Communities of Africa and the Middle East which are now Shut Off from the Nazi Influence By FERDINAND TUOHY IN the general excitement over North Africa, not much has been said about one aspect. As long as Vichy held North and West Africa, with their 30,000,000 Arabs, Senegalese and derivative kith, danger lurked of this western part of Islam ...

... German Gliders Captured in Egypt The Troop-Carriers which have been Used to Reinforce the Afrika Korps 1 1 has been known since the days of the Crete campaign that the Germans have been making use of numbers of specially-constructed gliders for the quick transport of troops within the battle-zone Here are two pictures which show what the newest types of German troop- carrying gliders look like ...

... THE WAR BY AIR At Sea and in Libya U.S. NAVY SCOUT-BOMBERS AT WORK IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC A formation of Voueht-Sikorskv aircraft circles hieh above their powerful carrier as the latter steams briskly along- -Drawing by Roland Davies American aircraft-carriers have figured very largely in the war against Japan in the South-West Pacific and the U.S. Navy have scored many successes with the Air ...

... THOSE WHO RUN MAY READ Or, What Life is Like at a Big Public School in Wartime Described by CHARLES GRAVES THANKS to Lord Woolton, the food at Public Schools is far better than it was in the last war, but the registration and medical examination at the age of seventeen years and eight months of all youths who become liable to call-up at eighteen will affect them more than somewhat. Until now, ...