... 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 ...

... THE PURSUIT OF ROMMEL'S FLEEING ARMY IN EGYPT Recently-arrived Pictures which Demonstrate the Disorganisation of the German and Italian Forces After the Collapse of Their Line HOW THE ENEMY'S MINEFIELDS WERE MASKED, SO THAT THE BRITISH SUPPLY COLUMNS COULD GO THROUGH. The location of the mines was the work of the Royal Engineers, who played an heroic part in our first break-through. As soon as ...

... THE GENERALS WHO LED THE EIGHTH ARMY TO VICTORY-- Lieut.-General Montgomery and two of his Corps Commanders on the field of battle On the left is Lieut.-General Sir Oliver Leese, C.B.E., D.S.O., Commander of the 30th Corps. He is forty-eight years of age in December 1940 he was promoted Major-General and two months later was transferred to the command of a Division. In September, 1942 he was ...

... THE FRENCH ARMY OF NORTH AFRICA How it Has Been Built Ub and its Present Princibal Components Described by FERDINAND TUOHY THE last time I saw the French Army of North Africa on parade, it was a memorable enough occasion, for less than a dozen paces from me stood Daladier-- and Darlan. January 1939. We had journeyed 300 miles south from Bizerta to the heart of the Mareth Line,, fronting Libya. ...

... THE BUSINESS END OF A BOMBER How Bomb-aiming and Turrets Influence the External Appearance of British Aircraft By PATRICK HAMILTON THE three-motor plane (one engine in each wing and one perched precariously on the nose) is now quite extinct. It has persisted in the Italian Air Force longer than in any other (e.g., the Savoia Marchetti 79)-- much to the detriment of that force-- but every first ...

... ■■■H i'i;i*t:i?ky waiTirr Jj£2&> ■I H7 iH'iF y-./y^i'imd people will look to The Salvation Army for Christmas Cheer again this year. Will you please send a gift to the Christmas Fund to GENERAL CARPENTER 101, Queen Victoria Street London E.C. 4 and Father XmaJ Xqq\ THERE are so many things that aren't sure to-day. The tranquil pattern of childhood is twisted and marred by separations ...

... More Pictures From North Africa BRITISH SAILORS TAKE U.S. TROOPS ASHORE This picture gives a good impression of the landing craft used for the purpose it also shows the size of some c f the transport vessels used to convey the troops to North Africa CARRYING SUPPLIES ASHORE AFTER THE LANDINGS A landing craft, with stores and light guns, on its way to the beach at Algiers. These are well-built ...

... I^BaBSBES I AFTER several weeks of intense and bitter fighting, the Russians have just gained a decisive victory over the Axis forces massed around the Upper Terek River, in the Central Caucasus, where the enemy was try ing to secure Ordzhonokidze to com plete their strong-points for the winter. Baffled at Stalingrad, the Germans had been trying to force a decision in the Centra] Caucasus, ...

... The ONE-SHIP FLEET in the SOLOMONS The Epic of the U.S Light Cruiser Boise THE United States One-Ship Fleet-- the light cruiser Boise-- returned home a few days ago from the Solomons, where, on October 11 and 12 (before the U.S. victory recorded on the preceding pages) she sank two heavy Japanese cruisers, one light cruiser and three destroyers. Outnumbered in her attempt to check the ...