... THE CANADIANS TAKE PART Two Pictures on the Voyage Out from Britain to the Mediterranean YY/hen the first announcements of the invasion were given out, it came as something of a surprise to learn that the Canadians were taking part in the Sicily landings. The last big show in which they had participated was the attack on Dieppe many months ago and it had not previously been stated that ...

... WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PACIFIC The Present Situation, and Future Possibilities, briefly Reviewed Many people have but a vague idea in their minds of what is happening in the Pacific. Within a few months of their entry into the war in December 1941 the Japanese had effected the greatest map-change in history. Japanese strategy had taken concrete form in a remarkable picture-- a gigantic semi ...

... MONTGOMERY'S LET'S FACE IT THEATRE FACE. During his visit to London in May undertaken in order to discuss matters of high importance GENERAL MONTGOMERY found time to go more than once to the theatre. He saw 44 Arsenic and Old Lace at the Strand and also went to the London Hippodrome where Bobby Howes was then appearing in 44 Let ys Face It. From our series of photographs of the General, ...

... - MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, O.M. for his ready acceptance of a lemon from Sehorita Ana Carcano. CANVASSED at the Chilean Ambassador's fete by Sehorita Ana Carcano, daughter of the Argentine Ambassador, MR. AUGUSTUS JOHN, the painter, gaily bought a raffle ticket from her, the prize a lemon. The proceeds from side-shows and entertainments at Senor Don Bianchi's party all went to swell the coffers of ...

... . ANN TODD, the Peter Pan of last year, is note the passionate murderess of Lottie Dundass at the Vaudeville. Here is the play's most critical moment, tchen. driven insane by ambition and confident of her own genius Lottie has com mitted the crime to realise her life's desire to be a star. rHOTOC.RAFH BY JOHN V1CKERS. ...

... WHEN MUSSOLINI BEGAN HIS MARCH ON ROME AT THE BEGINNING OF HIS FANTASTIC CAREER AS DICTATOR OF ITALY: An historic picture taken on October 24, 1922, four days before the 44 Hundred Thousand set out to establish the Fascist Regime Denito Mussolini, the ex-Socialist agitator and the ex-Dictator of Italy for twenty years, has gone after a career unparalleled in modern times. His sixtieth ...

... How the Royal Navy Made the Landings Possible in Sicily Striking New Photographs which have Just Arrived in England A CONVOY CARRYING REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE ALLIED FORCES arrives in Syracuse. Ships of all sizes went right into the port, after its capture in the first few hours of the invasion. Syracuse was the first harbour of size to fall, and was soon being put to the greatest use NEAR ...

... The first men to start the battle for Sicily were British airborne troops who crossed the Sicilian Narrows in gliders during the night hours of July 9. The British air invasion took place at ten o'clock in the evening: it preceded a similar operation by the American forces. Although the casu alties during the beach landings were everywhere reported as light, casualties amongst the airborne ...

... The landing operations in Sicily were greatly facilitated by the Duck and the amphibious jeep, both of which interesting craft are illustrated here. The former is, in fact, an enlarged version of the latter. The Duck is a six-wheeled lorry weighing from 2 to 3 tons its body is shaped like a boat, and it is equally happy on land or on sea. Numbers of them were built in the U.S. and were brought ...

... THE ;RPORT OF THE FUTURE Mr. F. G. Miles, noted aircraft designer, discussing the models with Guy Morgan, the architect, who has made a close study of the subject. London's airport of the future will approximately £20,000,000 to build. It will have runways 2|t miles long to accommodate the giant air liners which are being designed it will handle 8,000,000 passengers a year from all parts of ...

... k lanim iiijea-- i PREPARATION FOR INVASION How the British Troops Have Been Prepared in Britain for the Invasion of Europe Pictures taken recently at a Training Centre of Combined Operations Command I he pictures reproduced here were all taken at a Training Centre of Combined Operations Com mand. where the Royal Navy, the R.A.F. and the Army work in the closest co-operation and where training ...

... . MAJOR-GENERAL GUY SIMONDS, seen t coding ashore at Sicily from a landing-crafl is the new commander of the Canadian forces in the Mediterranean and Sicily. Forty years old he is the youngest general in the Canadian Army. He was in one of the first contingents to land in Britain in 1939; went to North Africa as a brigadier; fought at the Mareth Line and was in at the fall of Sfax. General ...