... The FIRST ARMY in TUNISIA The latest pictures from the Fighting Front A SNIPER'S POST UP IN THE HILLS OUTSIDE MATEUR. This British soldier claims to have accounted for twelve of the enemy, j firing from his shallow post in the hillside BRITISH PARATROOPS ON THE ROAD NEAR MEDJEZ-EL-BAB, where severe fighting has recently taken place. Note the specialist kit worn by these picked troops THE WRECK ...

... With the EIGHTH ARMY in LIBY A Series of New Pictures before the Launching of the Second Offensive at El Agh'eila BENGHAZI RE-ESTABLISHED AS A BRITISH SUPPLY BASE On t bridge of the Imhof as she entered the harbour. Tl picture was taken after the harbour had been cleared mines supply ships are now using it again. During the li before the resumption of the offensive, both General Alexand and ...

... PRISONERS BUILD AND LAUNCH A SMALL WAR VESSEL The Q-86 is the first U.S. warcraft to be built by inmates of a penal institution. It was made and launched by the prisoners at McNeil Island Penitentiary at Washington. The 65-foot craft will be used by the Army. The Q-86 was launched by the wife of the prison's warden. Mrs. Paul J. Squier A COLD JOB IN A BICYCLE SEAT: A devastating welcome will ...

... Yitabeau Vilabeau Now for the Army! COR cold and wet there can be nothing so good as this smart but essentially business-like Vitabeau. Its wonderful Tropal Lining is four times warmer than wool and only a quarter of its weight. It gives you the fullest of protection without impeding movement. In Khaki and Blue Egyptian Cotton Gabardine, lined throughout body and sleeves, with strap and button ...

... BATTLES MILES ABOVE THE EARTH Recent Developments in High-flying Fighter Aircraft Described by B. TUNBRIDGE IT is little over twenty-five years since the first air battles were fought, but since that time speed, armour and tactics have all undergone revo utionary changes. Then there was not the same difference between fighter and bomber aircraft, and battles, usually well within sight of ...

... The one thing which stands between Hitler's armies and disaster on the Russian front this winter is the Dzot. This is not a pill-box and not a redoubt-- and not quite a dug-out: it is, to use the Russian words for it, a wood-earth-firing-point --or a Derevna Zemlaya Oruzhina Tochka, which gives the initial letters DZOT. I hey are strong points built of big logs packed with earth. A vast ...

... And Actions by Sea and by Air, by the Royal Navy and by the Fleet Air Arm Special Sphere Drawings A GREAT OCCASION FOR THE FLEET AIR ARM AN ALBACORE TORPEDO-DROPPING AIRCRAFT ATTACKS AND SINKS A GERMAN U-BOAT the first occasion on which a submarine has been sunk by an aircraft torpedo. Drawing by Wm. McDowell On December 3, in the House of Commons, the First Lord of the Admiralty described the ...

... The new tank-ski tactics of the Russians have been patiently elaborated by a special staff which has been formed to maintain a higher standard of offensive mobility this winter than last. Here is a description of how the tactics are applied in actual operations it is taken from a War Corre spondent's report The local commanding officer loaded the sides and tops of his tanks with a picked ski ...

... HOUSEWIVES, PRISONERS, EMIGRANTS and EXPLORERS Lady Peck's House Bound Suffolk Viewed from the Tyrol Back-Stage Hotel Life Dekobra's Impecunious Emigres Freya Stark and Norman Douglas -By Vernon Fane IN New York, just over a year ago, I remember meeting the editor of one of those fat. shiny magazines in which you have to chase the serial through the food and cosmetic advertise ments at the ...

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... THE FAMOUS HURRICANE FIGHTER, THE WORLD'S MOST VERSATILE AIRCRAFT, ASSUMES STILL ANOTHER GUISE FOR WARFARE OVER TUNISIA It has now been fitted with extra petrol tanks beneath the fuselage to act as escort to Allied bombers The Hurricane was originally designed in 1934 by 1941, after the Battle of Britain, it had become the most formidable single-seat fighter, not only in the R.A.F., but in ...

... THE LAST TIME WE HEARD HITLER Six Pictures which Show What He Looked Like as He Made His Munich Speech on November 8 Last Qn November 8, 1942, on the eve of the anniversary of the 1923 Nazi Putsch, Hitler addressed his party members in Munich. He repeatedly declared that Germany would make no more offers of peace. He dismissed the North African campaign in a few words, but devoted much time to ...