... 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 ...

... A Description of this High Arctic Region of Gloom and Mist and Ice By L. O. HANSEN FOR the fourth time this war, the spotlight has cen tred on operations well within the Arctic Circle: the pursuit of the Bismarck through the Denmark Straits: the Lofoten Raid; the Spitzbergen Raid; and, lastly, the New Year's Eve action between a British destroyer convoy escort and a heavy German force, ...

... AT WAR HEAD QUARTERS AT MALTA The Nerve-centre Where the Island's Defence Work is Co-ordinated T^he pictures reproduced on these two pages were released by the War Office a few days ago. They show the islands nerve-centre, deep underground. War Head quarters presents something of a maze to the newcomer. Innumerable tunnels have been hewn out of the rock to con nect the various vital depart ...

... What Does the World Know of Its Personnel or of Its Composition By F. A. NOLAN THE picture the Nazis permit the world to see of the Luftwaffe is a carefully-painted piece of chiaroscuro-- a few dazzling highlights to a great deal of shade. The personal careers of Luftwaffe leaders, from Goring down wards, are lavishly presented; Gœbbels also issues a flood of matter in general terms, dealing ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...