... FROM Mussolini's town residence-- a resplendent, balconied mansion near the Central Station-- it is an easy stroll to the Vatican. Visits to the Stata Citta Vaticana were popular with most Englishmen in Rome some years before Italy entered the war. As one crossed the Tiber, one could see the castellated walls across the water. On the Italian side there was the flashiness of Fascism-- slogans ...

... HAK TAFTS PASS THE TIME FOR THE SOLDIER CONVALESCENTS Men who are convalescent at a ilitary Hospital in Northern Ireland are being trained in handicrafts of various kinds. They make ladies' bags, inkets, mats and other useful articles. This kind of occupation gives them an interesting pastime and ps to shorten the period of convalescence. The woman in the picture above is Lieut. King, of the ...

... BEFORE the EXPEDITION SAILED for SICILY Scenes in North African Ports as the Invasion Armada was fitted out i-- I ITTI THE COMMANDER'S CARAVAN The driver of the vehicle pinning General Montgomery's name on the side of the C.-in-C.'s caravan before its embarkation for Sicily, where it will serve the General as his battle H.Q. STOWING BEDDING ABOARD ONE OF THE BIG TRANSPORTS for the journey by ...

... After it had been made known that General Montgomery was the Commands- in-Chief of the British forces in Sicily, it was also revealed as quite a numb .of Londoners already knew that he had been in London on leave durirr the latter half of May and the early part of June. The news of the GenenTi whereabouts was, however, kept a secret from the Axis who, in fact, announce! that he was at that ...

... INTRUDER MOSQUITOES at WORK Over the Flare-path of An Enemy Aerodrome at Night I type of attack, in which British and Czech and other lied pilots have specialised, hits the enemy where it hurts os just as his bombers are taking off to raid Britain, or returning from a raid. The incident depicted by Mr. Davies took place above an airfield south of Paris. The Mosquito pilot, on Intruder Patrol, ...

... The SICILY LANDINGS carried out in a HEAVY SWELL Two Impressions of the Very First Moments of the Invasion of Continental Europe Official pictures of the invasion of Continental Europe are now streaming in from Sicily some of them are published elsewhere in the present issue. Here, we record impressions by two Sphere artists of the very first moments of the memorable July 10, 1943 three years ...

... CLEANING UP in NORTH AFRICA And Other War Pictures from the Atlantic and Sicilian Battlefronts WILL IT BE THE SAME IN SICILY An Army salvage dump in North Africa made up of Axis armoured cars and tanks waiting to be dismantled. Now that the campaign is long over in North Africa, thousands of Axis vehicles have been gathered and classified at an Allied salvage dump. These include armoured cars ...

... i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Sicily.-- A campaign like the Sicilian puts the weekly journalist at a disadvantage. Most of his com ments (and he cannot but write them from day to day, since his interest in progress is at fever heat) must be stale news, or proved bad guesses, by the time they are in print. But the daily commentator's views and prophecies, if contradicted by events, are forgotten ...

... When Transport Command of the R.A.F recently brought a glider across the Atlantic, it was the first time such a trip had ever been made. The journey was 3,500 miles, and it was performed in 28 hours. Details released by the Air Ministry indicate some of the difficult conditions under which such flights are carried out by the pilot and co-pilot of the glider. To begin with, the glider must be ...

... MR HENRY STIMSON IN ENGLAND The Requiem Mass for General Sikorski at Westminster Cathedral MR. STIMSON TAKES THE SALUTE AT THE MARCH-PAST after the award to S Sergeant Maynard H. Smith. Mr. Stimson is on the left Sergeant Smith in the centre and Lieut. -Colonel G. L. Robinson, the Station Commander, on the right. Staff Sergeant Maynard H. Smith is a gunner in a Flying Fortress. On May I he ...

... 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 ...