... THE KING ATTENDS DIVINE SERVICE. On Sunday, June 13 (the day after his arrival) the King went to church, the service being held in St. George's Chapel, on the second floor of a huge warehouse on Algiers waterfront which has been converted into a naval canteen. Some 500 or 600 bluejackets, in their summer white, were present. Before entering the chapel the King was introduced to a number of ...

... The SMASHING of an AXIS AIR CONVOY A Remarkable Battle Picture Taken Over the Sicilian Narrows During the Tunisian Campaign HOW THE ENEMY SUPPLY CONVOYS WERE SHOT DOWN INTO THE SEA OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN An actual combat picture taken as a body of thirty-five big Junkers Ju.52s were attacked by American bombers and fighters from North Africa at water-level During the North African campaign, ...

... Our Mediterranean Air Strength From the North Sea to the Suez Canal, the Allied Air Forces must now be able to muster probably almost a 2-to-l numerical superiority in medium plus heavy bombers over the Axis forces in the same area, and certainly much more than that in terms of bomb-carrying power. Not only have our bombers grown in numbers, but in range. The radius of action of home-based and ...

... HlOW THE MOSQUITOES WORK IN DAYLIGHT RAIDS OVER GERMANY An attack on the large and important railway workshops at Trier (Treves). The Mosquitoes' bombs smash into the roots ot workshops and send the debris higher than tne planes even before they explode Drawing bv Roland Davies The tack on the power station and the important railway workshops at Trier (better known as IjTreve), just on the ...

... HOW AUSTRALIA DEFENDS HER PORTS By Means of Strong Boom Defences Which Stretch Across Her Harbours STRIPPED to the waist in tropic heat, men of the Royal Australian Navy work day by day at sea and ashore on the unspec tacular but vital task of operating and maintaining the harbour boom defence system. the basic func tion of boom de fence is to throw out a protecting screen of giant nets ...

... ANOTHER, AND DIFFERENT, KIND OF R.A.F. RAID Two airmen go prospecting for gulls' eggs at an English bomber station THE RESULT OF THE RAID Four more gulls' eggs are discovered in their nest in the gulls colony. These two men were both brick layers in civilian life, and both came from Aldgate one is now a runner in the Operations Room, and the other is fully trained for gas defence. After their ...

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... FIRST PICTURES FROM THE ISLAND OF PANTELLARIA The First Enemy Position Ever to Surrender as the Result of Air Power Alone These vivid pictures show the terrific pounding to which the island in the Sicilian Narrows was subjected by the Allied Air Forces, the landing of the first British aircraft on the battered aerodrome and the scenes of devastation which greeted our troops as they landed to ...

... And what they achieved during the Tunisian campaign. Described by Dougal Gordon and The cherry berets of our airborne divisions fought their first sustained campaign in North Africa. Like all campaigns it had its surprises and taught its lessons-- even to the fundamental one that a parachutist landing on a high plateau in the desert hits the ground much harder than he does in England. Our ...

... Below Spezia is the great naval base of Northern Italy it has a grim circle of forts round it, constructed in 1888, on the high hills above. It has one of the largest and safest natural harbours in the whole of the Mediterranean, and it has been the chief naval harbour in Italy since 1861. Recently it was attacked by our own home-based Lancasters and then it was subjected to a fierce assault ...

... RECRUIT TRAINING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA Preliminary rifle sighting instruction on an open range for an Infantry Training Company. All West African recruits are taught to become expert shots with the Service rifle standard throughout the British Army to-day. The recruits are all volunteers and come mostly from farms they are of fine physique and average over 6 ft. in height. As most of them have ...

... Il I and How They will be Carried Out It is evident that amphibious operations of a peculiar complexity and hazard on a large scale are approaching Mr. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, June 8, 1943 A Special Section dealing with the Peculiar Complexity of an Invasion Armada, and a Survey of the Problems involved WHEN Mr. Churchill spoke of amphibious operations of peculiar ...