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... THE CLEARANCE OF THE CAPE BON PENINSULA IN TUNISIA: North African Campaign TWO BRITISH INFANTRYMEN STAND ON THE CLIFFS AT THE VERY TIP OF CAPE BON, the final stronghold of the Axis in North Africa which was so swiftly overwhelmed by the Allied Forces. Out beyond the Cape stretches the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Italy. It was to the rocky, scrub-covered hills on the Bon Peninsula that the ...

... PREPARING for the NEXT STAGE British Troops Land at the Port of Tripoli KTow that the Afrika Korps have been virtually expelled from the whole of Tunisia, great events are obviously impending at other places within the Mediterranean area. The North African ports are now hives of activity, with British troops arriving in Convoy and with stores being landed at ports which, until recently, were ...

... From the FIGHTING AREAS in NORTH AFRICA The Latest Official Photographs THIS IS LONGSTOP HILL, the formidable axis strong-point which is now in allied hands. It was one of the most important obstacles confronting the First Army in Central Tunisia despite a desperate resistance, it eventually fell to our assaults on April 26 (a drawing and other photographs are given on pages 206-7 of this ...

... Aircraft Production across the Atlantic Ocean CANADA CONTINUES TO FORGE WEAPONS FOR THE UNITED NATIONS. The armed forces on every battlefront are being supplied with weapons of war forged by Canada's great industrial machine. Planes, tanks, guns, uniforms all types of fighting equipment are taking shape in ever-increasing volume under the skilled hands of Canadian men and women war-workers. ...

... THE FREEING OF THE MEDITERRANEAN NARROWS The Work of British Destroyers and Submarines in the Sea which is Once Again Open to our Ships Special Sphere Drawings wrrnmwmmi On right A Destroyer's Second Kill Early this year the Hursley, in company with another destroyer, sank an Italian submarine after it had been bombed and disabled by aircraft. The story of the Hursley's share in a second ...

... Some of the Newest Implements of War THI IS AN AMERICAN MOBILE ANTI-AIRCRAFT POST. The gun is a 37 mm., mounted on a half-tracked vehicle, and is nicknamed Duckshooter. It somewhat resembles the Chicago Piano, or multiple pom-pom, of the Royal Navy THE NEW GERMAN MORTAR-PROJECTORS captured at Medjez-el-Bab. These are a great advance on the ordinary mortar-thrower. Each weapon contains six ...

... THE BIG BOMBERS on the Ground Flying Problems are not the only Difficulties with Modern Bombing Aircraft A note by PATRICK HAMILTON WHEN a fully-laden big bomber trundles down the runway, its three landing wheels are supporting a weight equal to four London buses. Of course, long before it reaches its take-off speed of 90 m.p.h. or so, the wings begin to shoulder some of the load. Even so, the ...

... TO GENERAL MONTGOMERY and the Eighth Army in this war belong the credit for having developed night fighting operations on a bold and vigorous scale. A glance at the calendar of the Eighth Army's progress since Alamein demon strates how large a part night attacks have played. The original push from our positions at El Alamein was made at 10 p.m. on October 23, 1942, with a full moon. The ...

... The topcress defence area into which Marshal Rommel retreated after his rapid flight from the Wadi Akarit is strongly bastioned by two big hill masses which, in detail of geological and geographical formation, present features which must add to the difficulties of a very arduous task. The assaulting of such a region, full of deep, sudden valleys between hills densely clothed at their bases but ...

... A large, toy model of the ordinary field gun is how the standard American 37-mm. anti-tank weapon strikes the observer at first. It has every thing-- but in miniature; with some new features which no big gun can possess. Thus, the mechanism is so constructed as to permit the barrel to be swung rapidly through a wide horizontal arc. On arriving at a suitable site, the split trail is pulled ...

... FASHIONS IN FELONY A Visit to the Police Courts, to See the Wartime Procession before the Metropolitan Magistrates. Described by CHARLES GRAVES IN spite of the opportunities afforded by abnormal wartime conditions, the black-out, and a shortage of experienced detectives and police- constables, fewer offences against the law are taking place in 1943 than in peacetime. I have been paying a ...