... THE GIRLS WHO ARE NOW AIDING IN THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT DEFENCE OF LONDON REVIEWED BY THEIR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, GENERAL SIR FREDERICK PILE, in the new warm winter clothing with which they have just been issued r)n Sunday night last London's long spell of immunity from bombing was broken when German aircraft again raided the capital, as a reprisal for the R.A.F. bombing of Berlin. Women are now ...

... BRITISH PARATROOPS AFTER ONE OF THEIR EXPLOITS These men have just returned from a drop on Depienne and are resting in the afternoon sunshine near Beja. Tough, well-trained troops of this type have been playing a large part in the Tunisian operations, as described in an article on pp. 1 10-11 1 of this issue A PARATROOP SERGEANT BUSILY ENGAGED IN CLEANING UP after the Depienne sortie. He is ...

... The R.A.F. takeover CAPTURED LIBYAN AIRFIELDS STACKS OF ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES piled up at the edge of the airfield at Marble Arch, to the west of Jedabia. Working parties removed these from the landing-ground at this point before advanced R.A.F. aircraft arrived to take it over to continue their offensive against Rommel ANTI-TANK MINES GATHERED BEHIND BARBED WIRE AT MARBLE ARCH Step by step the ...

... Two Liberator aircraft of the R.A F. Coastal Command have just helped to break up and disperse a powerful U-boat pack which was massing to attack an important convoy from the United States to Britain during its passage across the Atlantic. In under nine hours the Liberators sighted thirteen U-boats and attacked eleven: two of them were probably sunk as a result: several others were damaged and ...

... And Two Other Special Drawings in Illustration of the Never-Ceasing Work of the Royal Navy The Admiralty communique which gave details of the action depicted in Mr. Dawson's drawing runs as follows: A large German vessel, attempting to run the blockade, heavily laden with raw materials for Ger many, has been intercepted by our patrols and sunk in the Atlantic. The enemy vessel was sighted by ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 176 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Strange Bedfellows in North Africa.-- it seems that the sight in Algiers of is one which certain American eye witnesses, and many British, do not view with equanimity. Party leaders in the street, Maintaining with no little heat Their various opinions, On the contrary, warnings of the danger to the Allied cause, and of the ...

... THE BEGINNING OF A U.S. CARGO SHIP. This bow section of a Liberty ship weighs 50 tons and is 60 ft. high. It is being swung into position at a shipyard on the east coast of the United States. Yards in that country are turning out freighters with increasing speed by pre-fabricating whole sections and then assembling them on the ways. One West Coast yard recently launched a 10.000-ton vessel ...

... THE RESIDENT MINISTER IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA, LORD SWINTON, during an interview to British war correspondents on a visit to the vital Gold Coast area. After Italy's entry into the war, the African areas became of great value to Britain and her allies, and the Gold Coast as one of the points of entry- became a most important link in the supply routes to the Middle East. Lord Swinton has, for ...

... THE ISLAND THAT WAS A SHIP A Jap camouflage idea which failed in its purpose in the New Guinea fighting Japanese naval units have, during recent weeks, been observed by Allied aircraft to be still lurking off the New Guinea coasts, despite the hammering they have been receiving from Australian and American pilots. A hawk-eyed pilot of a Liberator bomber has just reported a new idea in ...

... TAKING IT GREEN over the BRIDGE An incident during 11 Viscount's four- day fight against Atlantic U-boats In rough seas that sometimes swept their decks and obscured sight of their quarry, escorts of a British- bound convoy fought a four-dav-and-nighl battle in the Atlantic with U-boats recently, sinking two and damaging several others. One U-boat broke surface ahead of H.M.S. Viscount the ...

... Few generals in the history of warfare have had to conform to so rigid a time schedule as Montgomery with his Eighth Army. From the beginning it was a race against time to train and mass the troops at El Alamein so that the break-through could be achieved in readiness for the simultaneous departure of the French North Africa expedition. Atter that it was urgently necessary tor Kommel to be ...

... THIS IS THE PRIEST GUN Which Has Helped the Eighth Army on to Victory in Egypt and Tripolitania The Priest must have come as a bitter surprise for Rommel in Libya and, later, in Tripolitania. It is not a tank, but a self- propelling ordnance piece of great effectiveness, mounted on a General Grant chassis in point of fact the Priest is a massive gun-howitzer of 105 mm. the Allies' reply to ...