... The Problems of the British and Allied Anti-Tank Gunners Against the New German Monsters The Future Developments in the Ratio Between Guns and Tanks SUCCESS with tanks, every campaign of the war has revealed, depends on ability to withstand anti-tank fire. There is a constant see-saw, with the Germans hitherto ending on top. Our guns prove inadequate against their tanks. We produce bigger guns ...

... Two Official R.A.F. Photographs just released Pe two aerial photographs reproduced here were taken from an R.A.F. reconnaissance plane, and they show the factory buildings of the Societe des Produits Chimiques at Tessenderloo, in Belgium, before and after a vast explosion there on April 29, 1942. This terrific disaster wrecked almost the entire village of Tessenderloo, in the Province of ...

... CHURCHILL TANKS FOLLOW UP THE SUCCESS OF THE GUARDS ON THE SBIBA-SBEITLA FRONT. Following the Coldstream and Grenadier Guards, who forced the enemy into retreat, came Churchill tanks carrying men of a Field Company of Royal Engineers to lift the mines and pave the way for further Allied advances. The picture above shows how the sappers were carried up into the fighting line from positions ...

... THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH TO SHOW ONE OF THE HUGE MODIFIED 8,000-LB. BOMBS which British aircraft are now dropping in raids over Germany. The smaller bomb on the left is a 500-pounder During the Wings for Victory procession through London last Monday, many people witnessing the parade had their first glimpse of the terrific bombs which the R.A.F. are now using in raids on Germany. For some months ...

... The Luftwaffe and the R.A.F. Locked in Conflict Above the Battle Zone and the Coastal Ports Described by RONALD WALKER THE loss of the air base at Gafsa and three more in the Sbeitla area in the recent withdrawal of Allied troops in Central Tunisia, showed once again that the Allied and Axis forces are jockeying for position to gain and retain air mastery over Tunisia. The side which obtains ...

... The Fortified Positions which bar the way to the Eighth Army coming up into Tunisia from Tripoli The southernmost part of Tunisia presents some violently contrasted terrain for an army fighting on, an extended line. The Matmata Hill district is a good example. Near the sea are marshes, none too healthy, and patches of sandhills. These are suc ceeded by a slightly undulating plain crossed by a ...

... On the French Coast, on the Island of Crete And on the Russian Front NEW GERMAN A.-A. COASTAL BATTERIES. This strange object, resembling a mine, is one of the new-type heavy flak positions now being erected along the German-held coastline A CAMOUFLAGED GUN POSITION ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE, where much nervousness has been apparent of late amongst the German invaders THE NAZIS FORTIFY THE ISLAND ...

... HOW THE JAPS PROBABLY LAUNCHED THE AIRCRAFT WHICH FLEW OVER SYDNEY LAST MONTH. It is thought that the machine was a seaplane, launched from a submarine in the manner shown in the above diagrams- -Drawing by Roland Davies A few weeks ago, an enemy plane, apparently from a submarine (according to the official statement), was located on the Australian coast. Later, the city of Sydney was blacked ...

... An Analysis by an Expert of a Recent Naval Night Photograph On a pitch-black night in the Channel recently, a Nazi convoy attempted to sneak through the narrows. During the course of the action which followed, the photo graph given on the right was taken. It shows a confusion of beams of light, masses of dark cloud, and other groups of light and shade most difficult for the layman to ...

... BRITAIN'S DOGS AT WAR What Has Happened to Our Three-and-a-Half Million Dog Population Since the Early Days of September 1939 Described by CHARLES GRAVES THE dog population of Great Britain was 3,500,000 in 1939. To-day it is about 2,250,000. There are two reasons for this noticeable drop. Rumours were spread that dogs on the Continent went mad under aerial bombardment and rushed around biting ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 184 i. New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Second Front? Second Chance?-- The early thaw on the Russian front gave the Nazis a much- needed respite, and in the vital Donetz area, and even in the Kuban, they were able to organise something more serious in the way of counteraction. In those areas, bitter fighting was not always to their disadvantage, and the general advance of the ...

... The R.A.F. MASS EVERYTHING Against the German thrust through the Kasserine Pass. The tactics of El Alamein repeated-- In the Battle of the Kasserine Pass, where Rommel's too venturesome Panzers were thrust back, the R.A.F. reverted to what might almost be termed El Alamein tactics. Air Chief- Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, taking a first big hand in the North African operations, threw in ...