... At the Wadi el Chebir it was expected that the Afnka Korps would make a stand, because this position lends itself to defence and because a determined resistance here might have slowed up General Montgomery's Army in its approach towards Tripoli The Wadi itself is shallow, with a bottom of heavy sand which might have caused trouble for our mechanised forces. Signs of diggmg-in by the enemy had ...

... Elsewhere in this issue (on pp. 140-141) we publish drawings in illustration of the recent battle between an Allied convoy en route across the Atlantic and a big German Wolf Pack of submarines. The picture reproduced here depicts Squadron Leader Bulloch's part in this battle. He had taken off very early in the morning to escort the convoy and reached it just before dawn the first submarine was ...

... This vigilance His eyes, his ears keep watch on the skies of Britain. These eyes must not falter, these ears must not grow dull they are the vital faculties of our defence. We can't all be in the anti-aircraft services. But we can all bring this vigilance to our own wartime tasks This is the spirit that is always ready to defend and attack. The spirit that wins through to victory. This is the ...

... This winter the German retreats on the Eastern Front cannot be attributed to Nazi unpreparedness for the intense cold, for the Germans have been boasting of the winter equipment issued to the troops. The design for this was approved by Hitler himself as far back as last April and after the Fiihrer's approval the equipment was put into mass production. The Infantry uniform shown above consists ...

... Briti sh Cela nese I. i nt i ted. gg U- SoU Manufacturers of Celanese Yarns and Fabrics and Proprietors of the Trade Mark 4 Celanese tanover Square, London ...

... j AN ALL-GIRL SEARCHLIGHT CREW READY TO COMBAT GERMAN RAIDERS Searchlight batteries worked entirely by girls of the A.T.S. have been in action several times lately against enemy raiders, and their work under these conditions has won high praise from Senior Army officers. This picture was taken within the Greater London area the girls are at a two- minute stand-to, which means that they may ...

... A NEW BRITISH WEAPON: THE PRIEST GUN, WITH WHICH THE EIGHTH ARMY BEAT THE GERMAN 88-MM. GUNS of Rommel's Afrika Korps. It is a 105-mm. gun-howitzer mounted on a tank chassis as above Further pictures on page 131 of this issue) In his review of the Battle of Egypt on November II, Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons made the first reference to this new and powerful weapon. On that ...

... KIPLING had a drastic prescription for when you lie wounded on Afghani stan plains. Doubtless obtained from those old- stagers, Privates Mulvaney and Ortheris, his advice-- just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains-- was probably authentic enough. But to the present-day soldier it reads more like a quotation from the 1580's than the 1880's. rtopeiess cases tor tlie modern Army tend ...

... Dear Sirs, Carlisle. I am enclosing a photograph which I thought might interest you as this shows my perfect teeth, which hare been very much admired since I came up here, and I think the credit for this is entirely due to the regular use of Eucryl Tooth Powder. Before the tear I was a professional model in London, but after war broke out I found myself looking after evacuated children in the ...

... 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 ...

... TWO AUSTRALIANS IN THE FIGHTING AT GONA These tough-looking infantrymen had just come out for a spell after having taken part in the fighting on the northern coast of New Guinea, when the Japs were driven out of the Gona pocket. The picture was taken less than 100 yards from the jap positions. Their boots and nether garments indicate what conditions are like in the actual fighting line the ...

... The National Militia which Now Forms His Own Private Army and which Works in Union with the German Gestapo Described by FERDINAND TUOHY WHAT may well prove Laval's last fling, of any substantial value to Hitler, has been launched from Vichy by the doomed little Auvergnat quisling. Among the various demands made by Hitler at Berchtesgaden was one for French troops to bolster up the Eastern ...