... Official Pictures, Just Received in London, of the Events Preceding the Advance to El Agheila COMING THROUGH THE CYRENAICAN GREEN BELT: From Derna to Benghazi the country is green and fertile, and at this time of the year much rain falls. Instead of sand, the advancing Eighth Army vehicles had thick red mud to contend with, once they left the main road. The column of tanks and other vehicles ...

... An Analysis of the Various Programmes for the Italian Island Hitler's, Mussolini's and the Allies'. By FERDINAND TUOHY IT is now two years since Sicilians woke up to find that the Luftwaffe had percolated in their midst. This was Hitler's instant answer to Wavell's triumph over Graziani at Sidi Barrani, and it was the immedi ate forerunner of the Afrika Korps. The Nazi move into Sicily at very ...

... The AIR INVASION of the CONTINENT: The Bomber Offensive by the R.A.F, Soon after midday on December 6th, many squadrons of British light bombers attacked the German-controlled Philips wireless valve and radio works at Eindhoven, about sixty miles from the Dutch coast. This vital target was known to be well defended by heavy and light anti-aircraft guns placed round the works and on the factory ...

... AFTER the landings by American and British forces on the North African coast, as an immediate retort the Germans seized on the two key-points of Bizerta and Tunis. The Germans determined that the First Army was to be resisted. But, within the very first days, the latter had reached a point which brought them to within twelve or fifteen miles of the Tunisian capital. By forced marches through ...

... THE WAR BY AIR Aspects of the Aerial Struggle in Various Theatres of War Depicted by Sphere Artists THE AIR WAR IN THE PACIFIC An attack by a U.S. Flying Fortress on a Japanese destroyer off Normanby Island, at the east end of New Guinea-- -Drawing by W. G. Whitaker The drawing reproduced here was made from photo graphic material received in this office it shows how one of the powerfully-armed ...

... WHAT of the LAWYERS and BARRISTERS A Description of the Part Being Played by the Legal Profession By CHARLES GRAVES THE demands of the Minister of Labour on the various trades and professions in this country are felt more keenly by the law than perhaps by any other section of the community. To begin with, there are over 10,000 lawyers in the armed forces of the Crown. (I have no idea of the ...

... 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 ...

... Nose to tail, during the retreat of Rommel's stricken Afrika Korps, hundreds of Italian lorries crammed with weary German troops ground their way westwards and southwards along the coastal and inland roads. And throughout the breadth of Cyrenaica the Eighth Army followed in hot pursuit. The tattered remnants of the Panzer army looked in vain for protection by the Luftwaffe instead, they found ...

... The SCENE on the FIELD of BATTLE The Incredible Litter of Modern War Described by DONALD COWIE The Eighth Army's Triumphant Campaign IMAGINE a vast undulating plain of sand and rubble, whose sole claim to a rather awful beauty in normal times was just its sheer, clean emptiness-- and people it to-day with the after- wreckage of the greatest African battle in history: overturned guns, and men, ...

... A DRAMATIC change has taken place in the battle area of New Guinea during the past two months, culminating in the pinning-down of the Japanese to the small district lying between Buna and Gona on the coast, where they are trapped, with Allied forces surrounding them on one side and the sea on the other. The scene was totally different two months ago then it was Port Moresby that was threatened ...