... The bombing of the immediate battle area was only a part of the work undertaken by the Allied Air Forces during the period which preceded the actual break-through at El Hamma and Mareth. Whilst light and heavy bombers were attacking dose-at-hand objectives around the i Mareth Line itself, other aircraft were, at the same time, attacking more distant targets. In fact, the scale of the assault ...

... Work in British Shipyards The area off Terschelling has appeared frequently in Admiralty communiques announcing successes by our Light Coastal Forces. The reason why this area is one of our parti cularly favourite hunting-grounds is that Terschelling Island forms a focal point near which coastwise traffic must change course to the eastward if bound for north-west German ports. The day and ...

... COLONEL the PRINCESS ELIZABETH rlT^z\ THE AMERICAN WAVES TO LEARN FROM THE BRITISH WRENS. Mrs. James V. For- restal (on left) is the wife of the Under-Secretary of the U.S. Navy she is now in London to study the organisation of the W.R.N.S. for the purpose of applying some of our methods to the American counterpart of the Wrens, known throughout the United States as the Waves. Here she is ...

... GUNNERS OF THE EIGHTH ARMY IN THE MARETH AREA: PART OF THE FINEST FIGHTING FORCE THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN: A picture of a group of these tough warriors who have pursued Rommel from Egypt to the outskirts of Tunis From all over the world during the past few weeks has come a perfect chorus of praise for the Eighth Army, and for the tough British and Dominion troops who have fought so ...

... ABOARD A TROOPSHIP CARRYING MEN OF THE R.A.F. OVERSEAS. At the moment when this picture was taken a contert was ih progress oh the deck. All the vantage points were occupied by the audience, but the vigilance of the gunners and the men on look-out never relaxed as the big vessel ploughed steadily ahead. The R.A.F. are already wearing their tropical kit, it will be observed THE NAVY SEES ...

... Tank-Mounted Guns in Tunisia For further Pictures from this Battle Zone see also pages 104-105 and 110-115 of this Issue AN ITALIAN GENERAL CAPTURED IN TUNISIA Genera! Mannerini, Commander-in-Chief of the Saharan Group, was captured on April 8 whilst trying to withdraw the last of his men. He was cut off by New Zealanders. In the last war, while fighting with the Allies, the General was ...

... AT THE FAMOUS GABES GAP AFTER THE EIGHTH ARMY HAD BROKEN THROUGH A long-focus picture from an advanced Observation Post on a hill, showing tanks and other British vehicles moving through for the pursuit of the beaten enemy to the Wadi Akarit. Thi Gabes Gap is ten miles to the north of the town of Gabes in the Oudref area. Hers road and railway running north from Gabes meet the road from El ...

... LIFE in the ENGINE-ROOM DURING WARTIME An Appreciation of the Work of the Engineers and Firemen Below the Water-line Described by M- J. MASSEY fl. The largest proportion of a ship's crew serve down below under the direction of the Chief Engineer. But they hear certain sounds very vividly, although they cannot see the course of the action up above. Depth-charges and bomb explosions sound like ...

... When General Montgomery again unleashed the Eighth Army against Rommel's Afrika Korps, it was against a position which the enemy had taken up after the break-through at Mareth and El Hamma. This new position had many defensive features, which formed a strong barrier to the Axis-held port of Sfax. The wide Wadi Akarit here runs from the Salt Marsh, or Shott Fedjad, down to the sea between Gabes ...

... BOMBING THE JAPS IN THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC Some Striking Pictures of the War by Air against Japanese Naval Vessels and Supply Ships SINCE her decisive defeats in Papua and Guadalcanar, Japan appears to be taking up a defensive position in the Southern Pacific. Her original design in acquiring the islands lying around Australia was to cut off support reaching the continent from the United States. ...

... LIFE WITHOUT WAR Impressions During a Short Stay in the Heart of the Country, Where the War is Very Remote. Described by CHARLES GRAVES Somewhere in Great Britain ONE does not need to be the agricultural corre spondent of a national newspaper to realise how far advanced the whole country is-- owing to the abnormal spring. Mr. Hudson's energetic cam paign for putting as much of the country ...

... ROMMEL was faced with a very interesting military problem while he was holding the Mareth position. It was at once strong in factiçal detail and weak from the variety of postern doors which had to be guarded in his parados areas. For a time he held a pivotal control from a point south of Gabes, which enabled him to swing forces in any of the directions indicated by the arrows in diagram I. He ...