... |he GROWING MIGHT of the R.A.F. I As Demonstrated During tsomber Attacks on I Germany, Italy, Occupied France and Burma --New Reconnaissance Photographs issued by the Air Ministry during recent days On right This official picture of Aachen still burning is one of the most xtraordinary photographs yet taken by the R.A.F. on reconnaissaru after a bomber raid on German territory. Eight hours ...

... Pictures of the Italian Dictator, who has now been Forced Out of the Political Scene in Italy after Twenty Years of Arrogant Domination THE TV MEN WHO ARE NOW AT THE HELM IN ITALY: The little King, who is 2T 5 ft. in height and who for twenty years has been under the thumb of Mi lini, now emerges from the shadows as the Head of the State. Marshal Ba 10 becomes Prime Minister and Chief of the ...

... One of the Most Astonishing Features which Followed on the Allied Landings on the Island 'The most amazing feature of the invasion of the island of Sicily has been the response of the civilian population. At every town and village scenes of almost rapturous enthusiasm greek the entry of Allied troops, and nowhere was hostility encountered, even from the police and tw local Fascist officials. ...

... Kmmmmmmmmm IT was on Friday night, July 9, that the great armada sailed across the Mediterranean, reaching the coast of Sicily in the early dawn. The passage had been stormy, the wind reaching gale force, and there was a swell along the destined landing places. Invasion barges, merchant ships, destroyers and hundreds of planes arrived on time on the south-eastern corner of Sicily, and the ...

... 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 ...

... The DRAMA of the EARLY ALLIED LEADERS The Men Who Bore the Brunt in the First Months of the War, and What Has Happened to Them Since. Described by FERDINAND TUOHY GENERAL SIKORSKI'S violent end added one more name to exceptional eclipse or tragedy affecting political and military leaders who embodied in the public eye the cause of the three Allies, Britain, France and Poland, that went to war ...

... A ccompanying the invaders on the island of Sicily are a number of Army photographers through the efforts of these men, the British public have been able to follow the fortunes of our troops as they landed and set off for the interior. Many of the pictures released by the War Office are reproduced on these and other pages. All the views given here were taken just before. during and immediately ...

... The large drawing on the left has been made from an eye-witness's account of the scene during the night of July 9-10 at one of the benches. The patrol vessel had escorted and led the landing craft to within 1,500 yards of the beach, when its skipper then signalled: There it is. It is all yours. The landing craft then went in, while the little ship stood by firing at a searchlight which was ...