... Front row 2nd Lieut. Tritton, D.S.C., 2nd Lieut. Richards Lieut. Frier e-Marreco, Lieut. Humphries G.C., Miss Doreen Lisle, W.R.N.S., Capt. Harris, D.S.C., Royal Marines, 2nd Lieut. Flooks, Lieut. Stately. Back row Lieuts. Fraser, Hoart, Cardwell, 2nd Lieut. Spedding, 2nd Lieut. Shepherd, Lieut. Kneale Officers of a Fleet Air Arm Squadron D. K. Stuart Front row Lts. Boulding, King S. Penoyre, ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Courage Beyond Praise WHEN Esmonde's torpedo-bomber squad ron (No. 825) went into the attack on those German battle-cruisers, to which certain unobservant Gentlemen in Brest whose business it was to keep their eyes skinned gave fifteen hours' start, every single man in the command knew that he was going to certain death, yet they went in, and both the Scharnhorst and ...

... By Elizabeth Bowen Reading for Pleasure MR. RAYMOND MORTIMER'S Channel Packet (Hogarth Press; 12s. 6d.) is at once a guide to and a series of comments on an intense, unfailing, enlivening pleasure-- that of entering another world through the printed page. The appearance of this collection of essays would, in any season, be an event: in this fourth of our wartime winters it is a beacon. Holding ...

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... AIB EDDIES By Oliver Stewart Enormousness ALMOST the only thing that remains constant in a changing world seems to be the urge to enormous ness. Everything tends to get bigger. Departments tend to expand. Services to be enlarged. Aircraft to increase in size, weight and power. Even the single seat fighter, which is helped in its duties by being small, has grown so that the fighters of to-day ...

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... WAY OF IHE WAR By Foresight Hitler's Dilemma DON'T let us make any mistakes about the situation in Russia. Hitler's position is really grave,. He and his generals have been outwitted, outmanoeuvred, and they may be out-manned. Unless his generals and soldiers are capable of, and willing to make, a superhuman effort Hitler faces disaster in Russia. All the proud promises that he made last ...