... 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 ...

... I A PITCHED BATTLE in ENGLAND During the Largest Offensive Exercises Yet Carried Out by the Home Forces GENERAL SIR BERNARD PAGET (C.-in-C. Home Forces second from right), with General Andrews (in command of the U.S. Troops in Europe in centre), and the King of Greece (on left) listening to details of progress from a General in the field ARMY AND AIR WORKED AS ONE IN THIS GREAT MANtEUVRE. ...

... RUSES THAT SHAPE BATTLES Some of the Tricks in This, and the Last, War which Have Fooled the Enemy High Command Described by FERDINAND TUOHY THERE was a refreshing whiff about Admiral Cunningham's tale of how he chose as golf partner on the eve of Matapan the Japanese Naval Attache in the Middle East-- the blunt edge of the Axis. One can almost read the flash that must have been sent to Rome ...

... HOW THE GERMANS ATTACK ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT A raiding party of the enemy mopping up near Kharkov. In the house, a small Soviet reconnaissance unit had taken cover. German soldiers, supported by an armoured car, are moving up to attack it. This picture has reached London from Germany via a neutral country ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE SALVAGE FEATS IN MARITIME HISTORY This was recently ...

... 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 ...

... Three Studies of H.M.S. Forestert the Destroyer which has Just Completed 200,000 Miles' Steaming H.M.S. Forester is a destroyer of the Eclipse class of six sister vessels. She has just completed 200,000 miles of steaming since the beginning of war in 1939; and she claims to be the first destroyer to have reached this remarkable total, which is equal to nine times round the world. The ...

... THROUGH E-BOAT ALLEY WITH THE COAL An average collier carries some i, ooo tons of coal-- the equivalent of ten trains. For centuries ships have brought their cargoes from Tvne to Thames, and the ship-masters of to-dav are determined that Hitler shall not stop their commerce. Up and down the East Coast they ply, escorted by the ships and guns of the Royal Navy, braving the dangers from the ...

... HOW THE TOWN OF MEDENINE, IN SOUTHERN TUNISIA, WAS FOUND AFTER ITS ABANDONMENT TO THE EIGHTH ARMY. Looking through a Moorish archway at tha wrecked buildings, wantonly destroyed by the Germans before their withdrawal The town of Medenine, near the Mediterranean coast, is only seven miles from the Mareth Line defences it lies on the direct route between Tripoli and Tunis. In view of the ...

... THE VOUGHT-SIKORSKY HELICOPTER demonstrating how it can land or take-off from the water without making even a splash. With floats fitted to this strange aircraft, it is immediately converted into a seaplane. Its value in mid-Atlantic would make it of great value in combatting the activities of the U-boats COMING DOWN TO PARK, the helicopter can hover like a humming-bird over the exact spot ...