... 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 ...

... SIX SOLUTIONS IN SEARCH OF A FUHRER Or, What is the Mystery of Hitler's Disappearance from the Gaze of his Adoring Public By FERDINAND TUOHY ON April 20 there will be fresh occasion to test the validity of the argument that something has happened to Hitler. He should then be fifty four, and preceding birthdays have been signalled by a personal message. The obvious and simplest proof would be ...

... GERMAN VEHICLES in N. AFRICA Pictures 'The pictures reproduced here have all been received during the past few days from the Tunisian battle areas, where the fighting has, once again, largely been a conflict of tank versus artillery. Many of the German Panzers were badly mauled in consequence especially during Rommel's attacks on the Eighth Army before the Mareth Line, when no fewer than fifty ...

... Cince the early days in North Africa, the R.A.F. has grown so strong that Air Superiority is now un doubtedly ours. Bombers and fighters are now crowding the skies, and valiantly supporting the efforts of the men on the ground. To the troops of the First Army it is a relatively new experience. One correspondent has described the scene depicted by Mr. Osmond above in the following terms Lying ...

... In view of recent renewed aerial activity by the enemy over this country, we reproduce the above drawing to show how the network of Radio location stations operates throughout Britain, whereby the detection of enemy aircraft (and war vessels at sea) is made possible. The drawing, without revealing any vital secrets, which must still be preserved' (and there are quite a lot which the enemy do ...

... IT is said the sea-mine was invented by the Russians. All sides used land-mines in the last war, but mainly as controlled charges for the sapping of strongholds. Then there was the curious minenwerfer, a mortar for the projection of what were really the originals of to-day's pancake mines. But nobody thought of the mine as a large-scale substitute for artillery-- till the German Army, with ...

... THE APPROACH TO THE KASSERINE PASS Bren-gun carriers passing down one of the many wadis during the advance by the Grenadiers A FIRST ARMY PATROL CAPTURES GERMAN PARATROOPS. A War Office photographer accompanied men of a Recce Regiment on a patrol which ended in the moppmg-up of a nest of Germans in the Tally-Ho Corner sector near Sedjenane. German infantry were known to have set them selves up ...

... EAST AFRICANS SAVE AN R.A.F. PLANE by building a long runway on a mountain-side in Kenya. The aircraft had made a forced landing above the forest belt on the rugged slopes of Mount Kenya the crew, led by the warrant officer pilot, made their way to safety. It seemed as if the aircraft would become a total loss, until 150 natives of Meru village near by volunteered to build a runway. Their ...

... WATER IN THE DESERT How Supplies to the Eighth Army of a Liquid Just as Precious as Petrol are Maintained WADDLING about the Mediterranean before the war used often to be seen an ugly old two-funnelled ship of about 4,000 tons. She rejoiced in the name of Citta di Siracusa, and her mission in life was to produce drinking water for II Duce's garrisons in North Africa, by distilling sea water ...

... THE COMING OF THE THAW IN RUSSIA The Unwelcome Rasputza which Held Up the Red Army's Advance in the Donetz A long the fighting line in Russia a most unwelcome thaw has occurred. It was first definitely reported on February 20, though hard frosts were predicted as being likely throughout March, and even in April as far north as Leningrad. But so far the thaw has continued, and in the Donetz ...

... The AFTERMATH at GUADALCANAR The Island the Japs could not Conquer and which they have now Evacuated There are no longer any Japs left on Guadalcanar Island, except dead ones. After months of bitter fighting the yellow men were fought to a stand still by tough American troops, until the enemy High Command ordered its evacu ation. The pictures reproduced below show last scenes after the enemy ...