... 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 ...

... ONE of the most interesting things about the Navy's submarines is that they are one of the few weapons which have not shown a tendency to get bigger and more costly as the war goes on. We are now actually building smaller submarines than in 1928. Neglecting the L. and H. classes, now used for training, the Navy now has about nine operational classes of submarines. Really there are only about ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between --A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. ODD Jobs at Home.-- How many of us good, easy men, householders, fathers of families and country squireens, in these last years of in creasing austerity, have seen the various duties of the plumber, builder, house carpenter, electrician and handy-man thrust upon us, and found ourselves cast for ...

... ROOF OVER BRITAIN How the Anti-Aircraft Defences were Organised to Counter the Blows of the German Luftwaffe yhe R.A.F. won the Battle of Britain during the autumn of 1940. But the Fighter Squadrons who fought and won that immortal battle did not constitute the whole of our defensive system. The 44 roof over Britain was composed of her static defences as well the anti-aircraft batteries, the ...

... 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 ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 185 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Impatience of Publicists. --No doubt, the first week of March 1943 was historically a very signi ficant one in this war-- and especially for the Allied air forces. It was a culmination of a phase of intensified bombing of German war industries on a non-stop basis by day and night which included record raids. It included the 100 per cent, ...

... The Devastation Wrought ac Essen where the 41 Heaviesc Blow at German War Industry was Struck by the R.A F. During the course of his Air Review in the House of Commons on March 11. Sir Archibald Sinclair had this to say of Essen We have now obtained photographs of the attack on the night of March 5-6, and this proves to have been probably the heaviest blow struck at German war industry in the ...