... THE COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH TROOPS IN NORTH AFRICA LIEUT. -GENERAL K. A. N. ANDERSON, in the armoured car in which he travelled whilst directing recent operations of the First Army in the Tunisia fighting yyhen British troops landed on the North Africa coast, the supreme command of military operations was vested in Lieut.-General Dwight Eisenhower, of the U.S. Army and the First Army, ...

... HOW THE JAPANESE STRONG-POINTS ON THE NORTHERN STRIP OF NEW GUINEA ARE CONSTRUCTED A star-shaped machine-gun post at the edge of the jungle, wit! snipers concealed in the branches of the trees above a favourite enemy device- Drawing by W. C. Whitoker The Japs in the Buna-Gona triangle of Papua have only been able to survive so long owing to the terrain, which is particularly suited to their ...

... The French Colonial troops who were in occupation of Central Tunisia soon began to develop operations against the Axis after the adherence of French North Africa to the Allied cause. The chief area of their activity was based on the central foothills of the Atlas range and the points of contact with the enemy stretched from Pont du Fahs, in the north, to west of Sfax and Gabes, on the south. ...

... From Sicily to Tripoli, and from Sicily to Bizerta and Tunis, is the big gap controlled by the Luftwaffe. All shipping bound for Malta from the west must pass through this gap-- the Sicilian Channel, or Bomb Alley, as the merchantmen call it. There is no way of avoiding this dangerous area, no way round-- except by the Cape, many. many thousands of miles round. bo long as this Channel is ...

... In New U.S. Aircraft and in New British Bombs I. Focke-Wulf F.W. 190H.-- This has proved to be Germany's best single-motor fighter; but in action it has been outclassed by our own Spitfire. It should, therefore, not prove very formidable against our newest and improved Spitfire! The Focke-Wulf is a low-wing monoplane, powered by an air- cooled B.M.W. power unit: this is a 14-cylinder. two-row ...

... THE GIFT OF ONE TONGUE The Invention of a Universal Pidgin by a Young Engineer of Oldham. I By FERDINAND TUOHY AMONG the important problems of an inter national kind to be promoted now and after the war is a means of expression in a language easily learned and used by all civilised peoples. The international Morse code is an example of an accepted system of alphabetical and numerical ...

... i FAST SHIPS or SLOW Would Ocean Greyhounds Outmanoeuvre the Submarines The Pros and Cons of Wartime Shipping Problems Discussed by A. D. McCracken TO convoy or not to convoy was the big shipping controversy of the last war. Fast ships or slow ships is the big issue in the present struggle. The maximum speed of most of the cargo-ships now being built is 11-12 knots; in convoy they probably ...

... When the Allied Armies descended upon Morocco and Algeria on November 8, the French forces in North Africa were presented with a difficult position. They were pledged by oath of obedience to Marshal Pétain, and yet they were growing anxious to assist in the real liberation of France. The fixed defences on the Tripoli frontier-- the Mareth Line-- had been reduced under Italian supervision, and ...

... Including Studies of Some of the Brave Meo and Women who Have Been Helping in the Great Offensives Against the Nazis THE SOVIET WOMAN FIGHTER PILOT WHO SHOT DOWN A JU. 88. Lieutenant Valeria Khomyakova formerly an engineer at the Frunze plant in Moscow and an instructor at a Flying School CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS STEPAN CHEKURDA. On one occasion his battalion silenced 26 enemy gun and trench ...

... I Throughout the Country the Guns are Now Being Fired by our Part-Time Soldiers.'' The Work they are Now Doing in this Respect is Here Described By CHARLES GRAVES l| THE original conception of the Home Guard, or rather, the Local Defence Volunteers, was to report parachute troops and attempt to contain them before the Regular Army came to their assistance. To-day the Home Guard has three ...

... THE SPEARHEAD PLUNGES INTO ROMMEL'S FLANK AT MATRATIN on l%ft Some of the ground was broken and rocky the enemy tried to defend it during this surprise attack, but infantry rushed over it, overwhelming the enemy positions. On right Infantry charge through a smoke-screen The outflanking movement to Nofilia, led by General Freyberg. V.C., 'was one of the Eighth Army's brilliant moves during the ...

... 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 ...