... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 209 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.I. No. 208.-- I noted the number at the head of the Newsletter of August 28. No. 208 War Newsletter. If some seer had warned me during the first week of September 1939 that that number would one day be hoisted, what thoughts, what anxiety, what vacillation, would have troubled the waters of my inkstand? Behind that No. 1, 1 admit, lay, back ...

... When Downing Street Was (Nearly) Bombed Two Pictures Token During the Big Blitz in October 1940 Which Have Only Just Been Released for Publication AFTER THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 17-18, 1940 The Treasury Building in Whitehall, next door to No. 10, Downing Street, wrecked by a German bomb whilst the Prime Minister was at supper at midnight A CLOSER VIEW OF THE BOMBED TREASURY BUILDING, with A.R.P. ...

... Germany and the Eder Dam UNew and Very Interesting Reconnaissance Picture the night of May 16-17, Romber Command of the K.A.r. yrried out one of its most out- ■landing raids of the war, when force attacked the great hder J Mohne Dams. As a result, arts of the Ruhr Valley were (coded and great damage was aused over a very wide area. Since then, reconnaissance pic- ures taken exactly two months ...

... How the Fifth Army was put Ashore on September 9 to Establish a Bridgehead in the Naples Area First pictures of a great Amphibious Operation ON THE VOYAGE INTO THE BAY Lieut.-Commander Malcolm, Commanding Officer of the minesweeper Circe, addresses the ship's company and tells them of the part they are to play AMERICAN NAVAL LANDING CRAFT STANDING BY NEAR THE BEACHES after having discharged ...

... AIRCRAFT. CARRIERS and ESCORT CARRIER! The Two Types which hat, Played a Part in th( Anti-U-Boat Campaign large and the small air-| craft-carriers of the Rovall and the U.S. Navies have co„ tributed very materially to the present highly satisfactory state of the anti-suhmarine campaign! in the Atlantic. H.M.S. /IrdierJ which is shown on the left' was one of the first merchant ships to be ...

... Dcggio airfield was captured early on Friday morning, September 3, the day on which the first landings in Italy were made. The R.A.F. servicing Commandos, with the assistance of sappers, were at work within a few hours repairing the runway and field, which had been cratered in many places by our bombers. Scattered around the airfield they found the remains of fifty-six Axis planes. Many of ...

... In the opening days of November 1942, the Battle of EI Alamein was fought and won. Thereafter, the story of the Eighth Army was one of continuous advance by way of Cyre- naica, Tripohtania and Tunisia. At the last-named, junction was effected between the British Eighth and First Armies and the Americans and Canadians. With the conquest of Tunisia, the task of the Eighth was by no means over. ...

... WHEN BERLIN FIRST WOKE UP TO ITS GREAT PERIL. It was towards the end of July that Berliners first began to learn by the lessons of Hamburg they then began to realise that they were next on the list for the attention of the R.A.F., when the nights grew longer. Hundreds of them, under instructions, began to dig shelters out in the open Hamburg had taught them that shelters within buildings were ...

... A NOVEL METHOD IN THE PROPAGANDA OFFENSIVE AGAINST ITALY (WHERE OUR TROOPS HAVE NOW LANDED ON THE MAINLAND). This is carried out by means of leaflets fired by the 25-pounder guns of the Eighth Army into the enemy lines A captain of the Intelligence Corps is here seen packing the rolled bundles of leaflets into the empty shell-cases before handing them over to the gunners Anew method of ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER -No. 210 I, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Peace-- and the Sword.-- The long-expected invasion of the Italian mainland was announced on the morrow of the Pope's broadcast appeal for Peace this Year. And that military event, whose progress the world will await with intense anxiety, may well contribute to the hastening of the end of war, which all men of goodwill desire and all the ...

... ITALY --The Bombing which Preceded the Invasion of the Mainland New Pictures from Rome and the Industrial North, and from the Island of Sicily ROMANS VIEW THE RUINS AFTER THE SECOND GREAT RAID ON THE CITY This picture comes by way of Switzerland it was taken after the attack on August 13, when the Italian capital experienced its second great raid by American bombers. In the foreground of the ...

... An essential part of the Allied rorces work in occupied bicily is the dissolution of the Fascist party. Many of the leading members of the party who fled before the Allied advance have now been caught. Above, Desario Birancati. Vice-Prefect of Catania, is seen undergoing preliminary interrogation in the courtyard of the former Fascist H.Q. Birancati, one of the worst types of Fascist, joined ...