... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... P'nemy air losses in Tunisia have been heavy and wastage has been terrific. According to Air Chief-Marshal Tedder, in a statement made a few days ago, 520 aircraft had been counted as captured 250 at El Aouma, 90 at Sidi Ahmed and 180 at Cape Bon aerodromes. Many of them were in good con dition but some were wrecked. Towards the end of the campaign, the destruction wrought by Allied bombers at ...

... 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 ...

... 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 TASK OF THE R.A.F. WAS NOT AN EASY ONE, OWING TO THE WEATHER HAZARDS. Bad weather conditions persisted to the very last days of the campaign in Tunisia. Although the actual entry into Tunis was made in sunshine, heavy rains during the preceding days had alternated with Scotch mists to make flying conditions very difficult. It was frequently found to be impossible to carry out certain ...

... The Exploits of the Chindit Long-Range Penetration Group Led by Brigadier Wingate, Whose Story Has Only Just Been Told T t was only a few days ago that the amazing details were released of the astound ing raid which lasted for three months against the enemy in the heart of Japanese-held Burma. This was the biggest operation of its kind this war has known during the course of it a penetration ...

... NO DUNKIRK from TUNISIA! THE DUNKIRK THAT FAILED Some of the Germans from Tunisia, who tried to escape to the island of Pantellaria, being rounded up by the Royal Navy some 20 miles from land. Rubber dinghies, large and small, were used in the attempt A COLLIER BRAVES DANGEROUS SEAS TO RESCUE A BEAUFORT CREW Asked by R.A.F. Coastal Com mand to help in the rescue of the crew of a Beaufort which ...

... The End of a Blockade Runner Silvaplana is intercepted by the cruiser Adventure 200 miles off Cape Finisterre \7ital raw materials, sufficient to equip three German Armoured Divisions for a year, were denied to Hitler by the Royal Navy on April 10 off Cape Finisterre. when the cruiser Adventure (commanded by Capt. R. G. Bowes- Lyon, M.V.O.) chased and intercepted the armed German blockade ...

... Heidous, cupped in a fantastic hollow in the Medjez-el-Bab region, is a village around which the tides of war have flowed for six months. It lies what remains of it ro the north east of Medjez-el-Bab under the shadow of Longstop Hill (which in the view given here would lie just outside the spectator's vision to the left). Below the village runs the main road and railway to Tunis, with the ...