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... BOMBING BY DAY AND BY NIGHT Dunkirk, Tours and Turin n eccnt reconnaissance pictures iv taken by the R.A.F. show considerable damage inflicted during raids on the great in dustrial city of Turin. Among targets which have suffered heavily are the Fiat Steelworks and the Manifattora Mazzonis, a large cotton-weaving mill, both of which arc shown in the pictures reproduced here. Between November ...
... - Special Sphere Drawings THE APPALLING WEATHER CONDITIONS OF THE PAST FEW WEEKS During a heavy rainstorm, Warhawks of the Lafayette Squadron attack enemy bombers which are trying to take advantage of the hold-up of an Allied column at a swollen ford in Tunisia Drawing by Roland Davies British soldiers are about to haul a truck out of the appalling slough of mud German raiders have come over ...
... THE BOMBER VERSUS THE DIVE-BOMBER The new arguments which the supporters of the latter type are bringing forward to emphasise the precision of the dive-bomber as against the less-certain methods of the ordinary high-level or low-level bomber-- -Drawing by Roland Davict A PEEP IN AT VESUVIUS, NEAR NAPLES An Air Ministry photograph of the summit of the volcano taken by an R.A.F. reconnaissance ...
... THE FREEDOM OF THE AIR The Second of Two Articles Dealing with Civil Aviation After the War By CHARLES GRAVES THERE can be little doubt that the Prime Minister and the Air Ministry have schemes for some ultimate and full-blooded' revival of British civil aviation to come into effect reasonably soon after hostilities have ceased. There is, however, nothing in the record of successive pre-war ...
... ft WREN TORPEDOMEN hoisting a torpedo, or tin-fish aboard a naval coastal craft at a British naval port. Looking after the tail part of a torpedo when it is hoisted away ifn the Wren Torpedomen have overhauled it. A gang of Wren Torpedomen working above and below a torpedo a job that means the release of men for more vital duties at sea. Learning how to set the preselected range and depth ...
... . IH.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH (right) and H.R.H. PRINCESS MARGARET ROSE (second from left are members of the first Buckingham Palace Company of Girl Guides, and are here seen marching smartly along in the ranks, someichere in the country. Princess Elizabeth is now. a Sea Ranger, and recently sent a message of greeting by carrier-pigeon to all Rangers, Guides and Brownies. She will be seventeen ...
... TWO-GOLOUR CONTRASTS SPRING UTILITY COATS NEAT WOOL FROCKS TV K ANY decades have passed since Courtauld materials made their d6but M and great advances have been made in their manufacture Now thev are extensively used for war work, hence there is only a limited quantity available for fashion and it is highly prized. Susan Small has been able to acquire some of it and has created the model seen ...
... THE Essex Pig Society's Spring Show and Sale at Chelmsford produced some nice quality lots for which excellent all round prices were made. Averages for 15 boars were £39 12s. 5d., and 62 gilts worked out at £32 14s. 4d. The Benton and Cressing herds did very well, Mr. A. Buchanan and his sister, Miss G. Buchanan, winning 7 prizes between them; these included the male and female championships ...
... COURSING history was made at Altcai, last Friday, when a 20 months old puppy, Mr. T. Cronopolos's Countryman won the Waterloo Cup. This son of Chancellor and Constellation was whelped in July, I94x> anc^ so *s youngest winner in the long history of the cup. Next to Countryman, in point of youth, were Conversion and Golden Seal, both June puppies, successful in 1927 and 193 1 respectively. If ...
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... 0 A Wartime Chronicle of Town and Country Palace Party PARTIES, at Buckingham Palace are few and far between these days. When they are held, they are simple affairs and catering is strictly in accordance with Lord Woolton's rules. Nevertheless, what they lack in pre-war splendour is more than made up by the informal friendliness of the gatherings. Recently the King and Queen entertained ...