... A I R BODIES By Oliver Stewart Characters in Action MR. HECTOR BOLITHO has left me in no doubt about what is the best medium for transmitting arresting and realistic descriptions of the officers and airmen of the Royal Air Force. It is the trained writer. YVe have had numerous personal accounts by the officers and airmen themselves. The Last Enemy will perhaps be the most widely known of them. ...

... IT is always pleasant to visit Harrods, Knightsbridge, as it is a storehouse of fashions which are in harmony with the times. The simple frock on the left is made of a fancy summer fabric which suggests a crepe. It has an off-white ground showing an original design, and is available in many colour schemes. A few words must be said about wedding frocks, some of which are of satin and others of ...

... CUPID'S COMMANDO I JUDY CAMPBELL plays Joanna Lyppiatt in Noel Cotcard's 44 Present Laughter which alternates with his 44 This Happy Breed at the Haymarket. Joanna might well be called Cupid's Commando, for a more determined siren has never been depicted. Here she is arriving for a raid on Gerry Essendine's flat, determined to get her man. Her seduction equipment consists of a ravishing white ...

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... IN wax, more can often be learned from the mistakes of the enemy than from our own failures. It is well established by now that in the campaign which has just ended in Tunisia, errors of strategy and tactics on the part of the Axis have been abundant, while the planning of the Allied Command and the generalship of the commanders of the Allied armies have compelled universal admiration. From El ...

... THE GERMAN SURRENDER AT BIZERTA Some of the 25,000 Axis prisoners who gave themselves up to the U.S. troops in the Bizerta area on May 7 and the succeeding day. They left behind them a burning port, and came in their thousands to surrender after a whirlwind campaign which left them dazed How the German prisoners streamed into our lines in the country outside Tunis, the day before that city ...

... W.A.A.F. STAND BY FOR THE RETURN OF THE BOMBERS. This is the crew of a Halifax bomber which had just returned from a big raid on Germany. The airmen taking part in such raids can now go straight from their aircraft to the new Drying Room which has been opened to them on various stations, and which are each under the care of a W.A.A.F. Safety Equipment Assistant. This is the latest method in ...

... Mussolini's Development of the Big Island of Sardinia Before, and Since, the Opening of War. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY CONSIDERING the continuous role Sardinia has played in Europe's war-making since 1936, it is odd that we haven't heard more about this second largest island of the Mediterranean. Sardinia was used as one of the Italian bases for the incursion into the affairs of Spain, ...

... To commemorate the sterling service rendered by the men of one of the regiments stationed in Malta, a tablet in the form of their regimental badge was recently unveiled in the rocky walls of a much blitzed dockside building. Prior to the unveiling, detachments of the regiment were inspected by Vice- Admiral Sir Ralph Leatham, former Vice- Admiral of the British Mediterranean island outpost. ...

... Pictures taken during the action On May .17, a Nazi convoy consisting of six supply ships and eight escort vessels was attacked by Beaufighters of Coastal Command whilst steaming north off the fcutch coast. The R.A.F. wing was led by Wing-Commander H. G. N. Wheeler, D.F.C. (who comes from London) the torpedo-carrying Beaufighters were commanded by Squadron-Leader G. D. Sise, D.F.C., a New ...

... Pinafore Jersey MATERIALS 3 oz. crimson 2-ply wool 2.1 oz. natural 2-ply wool Nos. 10 and 12 needles a fine crochet hook 2 press studs. MEASUREMENTS Round bust, 34 ins. sleeve seam, 3 ins. length, 20 ins. TENSION In the rib, 8 sts. and 10 rows to 1 in. THE BACK With No. 10 needles and crimson wool, cast on 104 sts. Work k. 2, p. 2 rib for 4 ins. M. 1 st. at beg. and end of next and every 4th ...