... THE glider pilot is both soldier and airman. He must not only be able to ride the winds: his knowledge of navi gation must be such that he can, with unfailing regularity. Pinpoint the exact position of objectives and land his craft hard by points to be stormed. And his purpose is not restricted to the ferrying of troops. As the glider swoops earthwards in a steep dive to bump and slew to a ...

... way The Conditions our Seamen Endure on the Northern Convoy Routes FOR Britons who can walk to the coast and stand in the next parish to America. who can cross the Thames, Mersey or Clyde and look down on unclosable highways to the world's four corners, it is almost impossible to visualise the position of Russia. This vast country, larger than Canada and Australia together, now has in ...

... IT was a most accurate weapon-- it could land a shell on a dime-- and it speedily put the fort out of action, remarked General Eisenhower of the American infantry mortar as used in the operations at Oran; and one more tribute was paid to a piece of ordnance that has played a leading, albeit an inconspicuous part in every campaign of this war. rirst in German hands across r ranee the mortar ...

... n iiiiiib i rwMwinwrr 1 I' 'T'fTTWIMMr v ^Phe Casualty Clearing Station is the most ad- -L vanced medical post where an operation can be properly performed, though in exceptional cases one may be performed at a Main Dressing Station farther up the line. Casualties are collected by the Regimental Stretcher-Bearers, who administer first aid in the field they are then taken to the Regimental ...

... THE MAN WHO COMMANDS THE ALLIED FLEET IN THE NORTH AFRICA BATTLE ZONE: A CLOSE-UP OF ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET SIR ANDREW CUNNINGHAM in his office at Headquarters, where most of his time is now spent yyhen the history of the present war comes to be written, the name of Sir Andrew Cunningham will always be associated with the Mediterranean Sea, and with British domination of those waters. Since the ...

... The TRAGEDY of the PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Which struck a mine in the South Pacific whilst acting as a U.S. troopship The President Coolidge before the war was one of the world's luxury liners. After the entry of the U.S., this 22,000-ton vessel became a troop transport as such she was engaged on operations in the South Pacific, when she struck a mine off a small island at a moment when she was ...

... Correspondents who have been inspecting the Tunisian battlefront have commented on the varied nature of the fighting terrain. The northernmost section is, in many ways, the strangest. Bounded by hills which drop down to the sea as steep cliffs on the north, this area reaches southwards to the Beja Valley, where the country changes to more rolling hills and shallow valleys. The Sejenane area ...

... The FRIGATE RETURNS to the ROYAL NAVY An Historic Name which is Being Revived to Describe a New Class of Bigger Corvette with Heavier Armour IN his review of the work of the Royal Navy in the House of Commons on March 3. Mr. A. V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty, made an announcement which must have been welcomed by many Naval officers. He said in the course of a long and very ...

... The BLACK BERET- The First of Two Articles Dealing with the Work of the Royal Armoured Corps. By CHARLES GRAVES THE task of mechanising the Cavalry and Yeomanry fell to the lot of Mr. Leslie Hore- Belisha, as Secretary of State for War, in April 1939. The Royal Tank Corps had been formed towards the end of the last war, but the initiative in tank fighting had been allowed to go by default. So ...

... ^HBj£3Ciirame' BOMBED CHILDREN FROM LEWISHAM RECUPERATE IN COUNTRY MANSIONS Some of the pirls at Gravcombe House heloine to move a chicken run GIRLS WHO ARE BUILDING COMMANDO BARGES IN A BRITISH SHIPYARD Women workers filing the edges of the portholes of one of the Tank Landing Craft under construction in Scotland THE NEW GOOD CONDUCT BADGE OF THE W.R.N.S. which has just been issued I This is ...

... One of the new ideas of this war is the Rehabilitation Course for wounded men after hospital treatment: the R.A.F. men seen in the three pictures above are thus being rehabilitated. As soon as is fitting, the patient is allowed to leave his bed, and then becomes the subject of a carefully worked-out scientific plan to get him, little by little, back to normal by action and move ment. ...

... Over the whole of the Mediterranean battlefront, the Axis have up to now lost nearly 6,000 machines. Each week sees between thirty and fifty more products of the Messerschmitt, Junkers, Heinkel and Caproni factories coming to earth with a bang for the last time. Unquestionably, the greater part of the Axis casualties must be credited to the R.A.F. If one contrasts the part played by Rommel's ...