... WALK A LITTLE, WADE A LITTLE, SWIM A LITTLE. With full packs, U.S. soldiers ford a stream in New Guinea, followed up by native porters carrying their equipment and supplies. U.S. troops in this area have made use of every type of transportation, from aircraft and boats to their own tired feet! SURE-FOOTED NATIVES CARRY EQUIPMENT AND AMMUNITION across a log bridge in the heart of the jungle. ...

... Weather Conditions on the Russian Front BEFORE THE SNOWS CAME, THERE WAS THE MUD. A Nazi Divisional Commander's car in difficulties during the rainy autumn weather, which preceded the snows and which hampered German movements, preventing them from preparing for the Russian counter-thrusts. Many of the roads behind the fighting front are un-metalled and were never intended for use by heavy ...

... HOW THE R.A.F. ARE WAGING WARFARE, UNDER VERY ARDUOUS CONDITIONS, IN NORTH AFRICA. From dawn onwards, the fighter-pilots on their improvised airfields are ready to take the air in their Spitfires to beat back the Luftwaffe raiders- Drawing by Roland Davies In the campaign against the Nazi raiders over the British I First Army, the Spitfire pilots rise before dawn and are in the sky almost at ...

... A Summary of His Abilities and Deficiencies in the Field. By DOUGAL GORDON THE opportunity of seeing how they behave under a little adversity is just as valuable when assessing one's enemies as one's friends. Opinions as to the merits of the Japanese soldier up to, say, January 1942, had to be based on his series of almost unrelieved successes. Since then, in two of the three fronts Op which ...

... THE FIRST BRITISH WOMEN TO ENTER BENGHAZI AFTER ITS OCCUPATION BY THE EIGHTH ARMY Three Queen Alexandra Nursing Sisters in their battle-dress on the water-front of the harbour |\|ow that the tide of battle has flowed past Benghazi, this important Cyrenaican town is rapidly being repaired, and its harbour being cleared to receive supply vessels from Egypt and to act as an advance base for the ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 175 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.t. Annus Mirabilis. --We shall no doubt set up 1943. -4 or -5 as annus mirabilis, the year of victory and peace. I shall still put forward the superior claims of 1942, For never in any year we have known has a blacker worst turned the best to the brave. I won't go into historical details. 1 note in mv own diary that the week of February ...

... WRITERS throughout the ages have dis cerned a gnomic quality in the German --a dog-in-the-manger attitude that leads to extraordinary acts of mean and petty spiteful ness when things go the wrong way with him. This was first exemplified on a grand scale in the last war, especially at the time of Nivelle's abortive advance. Where the Ger mans had retreated, the land was not only devastated by ...

... HORROR has piled on horror in this war, but it is doubtful whether any of the major theatres has known the sheer, concentrated terror of the otherwise diminutive Papuan cam paign. We are just beginning to learn of the extraordinary conditions under which our young Australian and American allies have been fighting in this distant abode of former head hunters; the climate and terrain have been ...

... I Three Special Sphere drawings After an absence from home of two and a half years, during which she sank or damaged more than twenty Axis ships and steamed more than 80,000 miles, in the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Java Seas, H.M. Submarine Truant has arrived at a base in Britain. ruant s exploits during her long cruise include going into an enemy harbour on the surface, because it was ...

... A PAGODA-LIKE SHACK ON HENDERSON AIRFIELD. This was probably built by the Japs originally it became H.Q. for U.S. Marine and Navy airmen and survived numerous bombings U.S. MARINES ON GUADALCANAR ISLAND in the Solomons keep abreast of the times by reading the news on the bulletin- board of the local newspaper The Guadalcanar Dope HEADQUARTERS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, one of the few really sub ...

... BOMBING OR- BOREDOM? The Work of London's Ambulance-Drivers During, and Since, the Great Blitz Described by CHARLES GRAVES A PROFOUND remark was made to members of the B.E.F. during the lull before May 10, 1940. It was this: It is better to be bored than bombed. It is a pity that members of the A.R.P., and par ticularly the ambulance-drivers, do not remember this in 1943. London has had no ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS. Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. A MIGHTY LANDOWNER.-- I remember occa sions in my Victorian youth when I glanced at reference books of the Tobs and read such facts as these: Sutherland, Duke of, owns about 1,000,000 acres in G. B. Others read these excerpts also and wrote spiteful books about these big land owners and how ...