... 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 ...

... In last week's issue we published a series of pictures in illustration of the work of the Photographic Recon naissance Units of the U.S. Air Forces in this country. Readers will recall that this work is mainly being carried out by the Americans for the purpose of map-making. Here is a further series ot pictures this time or the R.A.F. showing how the admirable reconnaissance pictures, ...

... The Hunt class destroyer Tanatside has taken part in several exciting actions, but her crew think their most thrilling escape was in the Mediterranean recently, when the look out reported Two torpedoes approaching starboard, Sir. everybody was at action stations, and when he heard the warning, the Commanding Officer immediately swung round, but to everyone's amazement, the torpedoes turned ...

... ATTACK AT SEA-- The Story of a British Convey in the Bay of Biscay Attacked by U-boats and Aircraft, the Enemy was Beaten Off without Loss to any of Our Ships We have often read descriptions of actions at sea between our convoys and their escorts, and the enemy aircraft and submarines which seek to destroy them. Here is a series of pictures secured by a photographer during one such battle in ...

... THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOSPITAL SHIPS AT MALTA. During the all-night voyage from Sicily, twenty-one operations were carried out. Owing to the intense heat, the surgeons worked stripped to the waist. The hospital carrier St. David had the distinction of being the first hospital ship to arrive in Sicily during her subsequent overnight passage from there to Malta with the first wounded aboard, twenty ...

... AWAY FROM THESE WARS Memories and Thoughts of the Years Between A Fortnightly Causerie By J. G. HOLIDAY-HOUSE-- During a brief holiday, I saw again the outsides of some of the historic country-houses of England and Scotland whose hospitality I have known, and I thought much of their future and their fate. And as the train moved fast or slowly across the face of Britain, I thought also of those ...

... First Pictures Received by Radio from the Toe as the British and Canadian Forces Cross the Straits of Messina for the Invasion ON THE EVE OF THE INVASION Generals Montgomery and Elsenhower (on right), with their staff officers, study the mainland of Italy. The Straits of Messina at this point are only two or three miles wide i mm ib in iii niiwi muni m x THE INVASION FLEET GATHERED IN THE ...

... THE OFFENSIVE BY AIR The Bombing Attacks on Rome, Wiener Neustadt Regensburg and Rennes AMERICAN BOMBERS ATTACK ROME FOR THE SECOND TIME On August 13. in daylight, aircraft operated by the U.S. Army returned to the Italian capital, to attack the big Littorio Marshalling Yards in that city. The Marauders put their bombs squarely on the target, as this reconnaissance picture, taken during the ...

... The Path Followed by the Big Bombers in Some of Their Recent Raids on Germany and Italy Special Sphere Drawings The flight to Italy from Britain is a very long one: equally, the flight to certain parts of Germany-- as undertaken in daylight by American bombers-- is an invitation to enemy fighters to carry out attacks along the return route. For both these reasons, during recent operations, the ...